The Government has just made available a funding programme of £1.5 million to support the creation of pocket parks in deprived urban areas outside London. Communities are invited to submit applications, with the support of their local authority, for up to £10,000 capital and up to £5,000 resource (revenue) funding. The deadline is 5:00pm on Thursday 10…
Think Global is recruiting for two Programme Managers. At least one of them has to be a qualified teacher, but the other could have other relevant experience. Here’s the link to the information on their website. The closing date is Monday 30th November – in two weeks.
Ben Ballin, from Tide~ global learning, has contributed a post to the Cambridge Primary Review Blog. It’s titled From pessimism to hope: global learning and sustainability, and you can read it here. It begins: When the Cambridge Primary Review conducted its Community Soundings in 2007, it encountered a widespread sense of the world as a threatening place for children. The Review’s Final…
Wind power generated a record 140% of Denmark’s electricity needs one day this autumn. This enabled the country to export surplus energy to neighbours including Germany, Norway and Sweden. Data shows that Denmark generated 116% of its electricity needs from wind turbines, and that by 3am one Friday morning the figure had increased to 140%.…
The Economist has a readable article on the current El Niño which is already wreaking its chaos on the world’s weather systems and economies. There’s a great map which shows that where the losers are from all this – and where the winners are as well, as El Niño is a double-edged sword with rich…
Here is a list of professional development opportunities from Think Global up to March 2016. Click on the link for the details. 16 November 2015: Making sense of British Values (Salisbury) 19 November 2015: Moving from RRSA Level 1 to Level 2 (London) 19 November 2015: Climate Conference for Schools (London) 20 November 2015: Global Teachers Award Level 2…
The Ordnance Survey launches its 9th Geovation Challenge on Nov 25th and the team is on the lookout for bright ideas that can improve our relationship with water. The OS says: A water crisis that is fuelled by ever increasing challenges from the effects of climate change and phenomenally growing societies. A crisis of resilience and sustainability:…
Rocky Rex is a new science blog that’s aimed at non-experts. It mixes climate change with other things, to illustrate that climate science is mainstream. The picture on the right shows Rocky. Recent posts are about the atmosphere, greenhouse gases, earthquakes and volcanoes, ice ages and glaciers, hurricanes and tropical storms, the oceans, natural cycles, and up-to-date data on climate…
The sixth annual Global Education Conference, is a free four-day online event bringing together educators and innovators from around the world It will start on Monday, November 16th. You are invited to attend! Last year’s conference featured more than 260 general sessions and 35 keynote addresses from all over the world with over 7,500 participants. The conference is designed to…
Another winner of this year’s Ashden Sustainable Schools Award was Marton primary school in Lincolnshire. What follows is taken from the Ashden case study which details the school’s success. The Ashden judging panel said: “Marton Primary School is an excellent role model for other small schools. The staff and pupils have adopted a very simple approach focusing on low cost or no cost…