The optional GCSE in natural history has a key role in delivering the DfE’s sustainability and climate change strategy. Here’s a selection of comments about it taken from the OCR website.
- Climate emergency and the steady decline of nature – Dom Higgins, Head of Health and Education at The Wildlife Trusts.
- Why it is imperative that students develop natural history and ecological skills – Simon Ward, Head of FSC East Region & Education Lead
- Understanding the role oceans play in mitigating climate change – Jenny Griffiths, Education Manager at the Marine Conservation Society.
- Natural History: For individual and planetary well-being – Elena Lengthorn, Senior Lecturer, University of Worcester.
- Change… a time for fear or a time to embrace nature? – Wendy Litherland, Director of Sustainability at St Christopher’s CE High School and Sixth Form
- International Eco-Schools Green Flag accreditation – Lee Wray-Davies, Eco-Schools Manager for England
- Support from Oxford for a GCSE in Natural History – Kim Polgreen, Youth Educator in Residence, Wytham Woods, University of Oxford
- Appreciating the nature around us – Sarah Garry, Executive Officer, The British Society for Soil Science
- Making Natural History Festival 2020 – Oliver Marlow, Head of External Relations, Eastbourne College
- Natural History…….it is all around you! – Jo Harris, Education Development Lead, Field Studies Council (FSC)
- A brighter future for our learners and communities – Vicky Evans, Head of Sustainability, Cambridge Assessment and Cambridge University Press
- The importance of teaching children about Natural History – Patrick Roper, Ecologist, biodiversity researcher, recorder and naturalist
- Nature – Back on the table – Carl Edwards, Director of LEAF Education
- How farms offer an amazing window into all that the countryside has to offer – Nina Bell, Policy Advisor, The Country Trust
- Working with Dinosaurs – Q&As with Prof Phil Manning – Prof Phil Manning – Chair of Natural History, University of Manchester
- Eco-Schools – New National Eco-Committee – Lee Wray-Davies, Eco-Schools Manager for England, Keep Britain Tidy
- On a mission to create advocates for the planet – Beth Stone, Head of Learning and audiences, Natural History Museum
- Museums – supporting students beyond the classroom – Ellie Chambers, Secondary and Post-16 Science Learning Co-ordinator, Manchester Museum
- Putting fungi at the heart of student learning – Dr Linda Davies, Fungal Education and Outreach Committee, British Mycological Society
- Will I ever see a living hedgehog? – Dr Meryl Batchelder, Science Teacher, Corbridge Middle School
- Accessing nature – from a distance? – Esther Chesterman, CEO, National Extension College
- Temperate rainforests of the British Isles and their place in the National Curriculum – April Windle, Education & Promotions Committee (Co-Chair), British Lichen Society