Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Climate Courage campaign The English teacher who turned climate fear into letters that actually got sent ↓ Meet Sarah Dukes, English & Art teacher; Sustainability Lead, The Chase Secondary School, Malvern When students at The Chase School in Malvern demanded their headteacher declare a climate emergency in 2019, English teacher Sarah Dukes stepped up to support them. Now the school's sustainability lead, she's found that her subject is "a bit of a...
11 days ago • 5 min read
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Climate Courage campaign The primary school that added climate resilience to its safeguarding policy ↓ Meet Danielle Ware & Sara Farish, Co-Sustainability Leads, Drake Primary School,Thetford, Norfolk “I don't think it should be a choice whether the schools decide to weave climate change in or not. It needs to be part of the statutory curriculum.” Year 3 teacher Danielle Ware and forest school lead Sara Farish are reshaping how climate change is...
18 days ago • 6 min read
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Climate Courage campaign The Year 1 teacher who turned an overgrown garden into a living classroom ↓ Meet Raphaela Harris, Year 1 teacher and Eco-coordinator at Goldstone Primary School, Sussex "It's not difficult to say, I'm going to take my class outside today to read a story rather than inside. Small things can make a big difference." When Year 1 teacher Raphaela Harris arrived at Goldstone Primary School in Brighton, the outdoor growing space...
25 days ago • 5 min read
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Climate Courage campaign The one lesson he’s afraid to teach ↓ Introducing our new film 'The Hardest Lesson' – and nine case studies showing what real-life Climate Courage in the classroom looks like. “Many teachers I support don’t want to upset their pupils, and simply can’t afford the time and energy to open 'that can of worms'." Louise Edgington, chartered Educational Psychologist. We expect teachers to be the calm in the storm, yet they are...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Climate Courage campaign Climate makes it into the curriculum – but the government still isn’t listening to what young people are saying ↓ The Curriculum and Assessment review is out. Here’s our take. “To acknowledge young people’s concern and appetite for climate action – and then fail to deliver emotionally literate, whole-curriculum climate and nature education – is to miss a huge opportunity, and to let down a new generation.” Caroline Lucas...
4 months ago • 4 min read
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Climate Courage campaign A quick summer update from Climate Courage Schools ↓ A quick hello before I melt in 40° France… Before I head off for a couple of weeks of reading, swimming, hiding from the boiling sunshine, and hopefully still finding some time in nature, I wanted to share where we’re at – and what’s coming this autumn. Since launching the Climate Courage Schools campaign in June, we’ve been laying the groundwork for what’s next:...
7 months ago • 2 min read
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Climate Courage campaign Our young people deserve nothing less’: Caroline Lucas on our new Climate Courage campaign ↓ We’ve launched. Here’s how you can be part of it. Last week, we launched something big: the Climate Courage Schools campaign – a call for emotionally aware, future-ready climate education in every school. Our launch event brought together 150 teachers, students, psychologists, researchers, campaigners and policymakers. Now the real...
8 months ago • 3 min read
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Climate Courage campaign You’re invited: let’s turn classrooms into climate courage hubs – starting 25 June ↓ It's a short one from me this month I’m writing because the thing we’ve been working towards together finally has a date and a time. Climate Courage Schools – online launch Wednesday 25 June · 16:30–18:00 BST → Save your free place In that 90 minutes we’ll share stories from the classroom and set out the four shifts we’re asking government...
9 months ago • 1 min read
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Climate Courage campaign What does it really mean to help young people adapt to a climate-disrupted world? ↓ Why we’re talking about “adaptation” – and why we need your stories Do I have a future?Why have the adults done this?Are humans going extinct? These are real questions children have asked about climate change. Imagine you're a teacher, asked this in front of a class of 30. Perhaps you are. How do you respond? When we launched the Climate...
10 months ago • 5 min read