On 12th November 2024, the Education Policy Institute (EPI) held a public webinar on the theme of ‘Climate and education: strategies for adaptation, learning and play’. This event is in partnership with Learning Through Landscapes.
This webinar brought together politicians, school leaders and education leaders to consider how policymakers and the wider education sector can support schools to deliver on the Department for Education’s non-statutory guidance, teach climate education and facilitate sustained connections with nature for all children and young people. The webinar was the final event in a series looking at this theme and built on discussions held in two previous roundtables, the first looking at how to embed climate education in the curriculum taking a cross-phase, cross-subject approach, and the second considering how the education estate, in particular school grounds, can be utilised as both a tool for learning and a site for climate resilience strategies.
We were delighted to joined by an expert panel including Stephen Morgan MP, Minister for Early Education and responsible for overseeing maintenance and improvement of the education estate and environmental sustainability in the education sector, Dawn Haywood, CEO of Windsor Academy Trust, Christine Özden, Global director for Climate Education at Cambridge University Press & Assessment, Usha Sahni OBE, Former Director for Education at Avanti Schools Trust and Carley Sefton, CEO of Learning Through Landscapes. James Zuccollo, EPI’s Director for School Workforce chaired the discussion.
