Schools
If you are a school and want to work with us on Climate Change issues, please do email us.
We are always happy to help and come and talk to classes or help facilitate lessons working to curriculum guidelines helping to provide fantastic support for knowledge and understanding of environmental change and sustainable development.
CURRICULUM LINKS – KEY STAGE 2
Geography
Knowledge and understanding of environmental change and sustainable development:
Pupils need to be able to:
a) recognise how people can improve the environment or damage it, and how decisions about places and environments affect the future quality of people’s lives.
b) recognise how and why people may seek to manage environments in a sustainable way, and to identify opportunities for their own involvement
Art and Design
Exploring and developing ideas
Pupils need to be able to:
a) record from experience and imagination, to select and record from first hand observation and to explore ideas for different purposes
b) question and make thoughtful observations about starting points and select ideas to use in their work.
c) Collect visual and other information to help them develop their ideas, including using a sketchbook.
Design and Technology
Developing, planning and communicating ideas
pupils need to be able to:
a) generate ideas for products after thinking about who will use them and what they will be used for, using information from a number of sources, including ICT-based sources
b) develop ideas and explain them clearly, putting together a list of what they want their design to achieve
c) plan what they have to do, suggesting a sequence of activities and alternatives if needed
d) communicate design ideas in different ways as these develop, bearing in mind aesthetic qualities, and the uses and purposes for which the product is intended.
PSHE & Citizenship
Developing confidence and responsibility and making the most of their abilities
Pupils need to be able to:
a) to talk and write about their opinions, and explain their views, on issues that affect themselves and society
e) about the range of jobs carried out by people they know, and to understand how they can develop skills to make their own contribution in the future
Preparing to play an active role as citizens
Pupils need to be able to:
a) research, discuss and debate topical issues, problems and events
b) understand that resources can be allocated in different ways and that these economic choices affect individuals, communities and the sustainability of the environment.
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