Climate Education in a High-Quality English Curriculum | Primary

Emma Rogers
Experienced literacy and learning expert

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1h 27m

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This webinar will provide headteachers, governors, senior leaders, English leads, teachers and practitioners with practical guidance on integrating climate education into the primary English curriculum, as part of a holistic approach to develop pupils’ knowledge and understanding of climate change, aligned with the government’s flagship strategy.
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This webinar will provide headteachers, governors, senior leaders, English leads, teachers and practitioners with practical guidance on integrating climate education into the primary English curriculum, as part of a holistic approach to develop pupils’ knowledge and understanding of climate change, aligned with the government’s flagship strategy.

The DfE’s policy paper Sustainability and climate change: a strategy for the education and children’s services systems highlights the urgent need to give children and young people ‘the knowledge and skills to thrive in the green economy and to help restore nature’. By interweaving climate education throughout the curriculum, schools can provide pupils with a much deeper insight into the truth about environmental issues, and their role as agents of change.

In this webinar, Emma Rogers, experienced literacy and learning expert, senior lecturer, English lead and former teacher, explains how primary schools can use English lessons to develop pupils’ climate literacy, using practical examples and activities to enhance teaching and learning.

Outcome 1:

Understanding how to incorporate climate education into the primary English curriculum to provide a broader perspective on climate change.

Outcome 2:

Gaining insight into the measures the DfE is planning to transform sustainability and climate change education and address the climate crisis.

Outcome 3:

Being able to recognise opportunities within the primary English curriculum for teaching and learning about climate change.

Outcome 4:

Understanding how different primary English texts lend themselves to teaching about climate education.

Outcome 5:

Being able to draw upon a range of classroom activities which use climate education as the context for teaching different strands of the primary English curriculum.

Emma Rogers

Emma Rogers is an experienced literacy and learning expert. She is the English lead for the School of Teacher Development and Senior Lecturer at the Bishop Grosseteste University (BGU). Emma leads an OU/UKLA Teachers’ Reading group to develop Reading for Pleasure Pedagogies with teachers and students and contributes to a range of programmes within Teacher Development, including undergraduate and PGCE courses, at BGU.

Emma has previously worked as a learning and literacy consultant offering professional development packages and training to teachers, schools, networks and local authorities aiming to develop children’s learning and achievement in literacy.

She worked for several years for the Primary National Strategies leading the successful Every Child a Writer programme and has developed languages curricula and assessment guidance in over 150 countries.

She has previously worked as a classroom teacher and senior school leader and in 2018, she became a Fellow of the Higher Education Association.