Today’s post is by David Dixon, NAEE Trustee and author of Leadership for Sustainability: saving the planet one school at a time (Crown House Publishing, 2022). David is Tynedale’s Bicycle Mayor. As usual with our blogs, the views expressed are not necessarily shared by the Association. Recently school meals hit the headlines when a headteacher…
The most recent Spectator Schools magazine had an article, Better Nature, which focused on “how to make the new natural history GCSE more worthwhile”. This is a plea for natural history to be focused on plants and animals rather than on fashionable causes such as the need to ‘save the world from catastrophe’ as suggested…
Secrets of the Saltmarsh By Claire Saxby; illustrated by Alicia Rogerson CSIRO Publishing, 2023 isbn 9781486317141 (hbk) It’s not every day that you think of, or use the words ‘salt marsh’. Wetlands, yes, vaulable and quickly disappearing habitats, a habitat type that we are losing each year to drainage to make way for farmland.…
Curriculum for a Change – Did you see the launch last week of the Curriculum for a Changing Climate from teachthefuture.uk? If you didn’t, you can now view and download the primary papers. As these are still working documents, suggestions and critique are welcome. The launch webinar can be rewatched or shared with colleagues: Launch Webinar: Primary Curriculum for a Changing…
Anna Ridgewell, from the University of Sussex, won the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference 2023 Best ePoster Prize and has now contributed a post to its Blog: Growing up green: What value is placed on accessing outdoor environments across different childcare and educational settings? This is how it begins: “It is well known that…
Today’s post is by David Dixon, NAEE Trustee and author of Leadership for Sustainability: saving the planet one school at a time (Crown House Publishing, 2022). David is Tynedale’s Bicycle Mayor. As usual with our blogs, the views expressed are not necessarily shared by the Association. If time travellers from the 19th Century were to arrive…
Friday was International Poetry Day. To celebrate it here’s John Clare’s On a Lane in Spring. As usual with Clare, the punctuation is minimalist. A Little Lane, the brook runs close besideAnd spangles in the sunshine while the fish glide swiftly byAnd hedges leafing with the green spring tideFrom out their greenery the old birds…
Snap – The latest DfE climate education snapshot is here. There’s information on [i] a Sustainability In Education Conference, [ii] the Sustainability at Middlesex Learning Trust, [iii] a month of climate actions, [iv] Education for Sustainability 101, [v] Wilding schools, and more. . Country Profiles – The UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report and its Monitoring and Evaluating Climate Communication…
Youth Pressure – With the general election fast approaching, SOS UK is ramping up its activities in order to create a wave of youth pressure that it hopes can’t be ignored. Its purpose is to ensure the next government delivers on mandatory, integrated, solutions-centred climate education. There will be youth political workshops, in-person regional events, and a grading of political…
Today’s post is by Dr Ian Humphreys, the Chief Executive of Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful, and an NAEE Fellow. As ever with our blogs, the views expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of the Association. It was an eventful start to 2024 for us at Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful as we launched a new…