Funded by the DfE, Climate Ambassadors match volunteer climate experts with education settings.
Part of Let’s Go Zero, Climate Action Advisors are independent experts who offer free support for schools, colleges, and nurseries across England.
Topic: Climate adaptation
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Integrate your climate adaptation plan into your setting's long-term infrastructure and facilities management plans. You should highlight any climate risks identified, and set out your chosen adaptation measures into any relevant upgrade and renovation projects, building maintenance schedules, and landscaping decisions.
The goal is to ensure that your estate planning reflects the current and future needs of your setting.
Find ways to incorporate local weather patterns, temperature trends, and climate-related events into your setting's educational activities and wider teaching and learning. This includes teaching about seasonal changes, weather phenomena, and how these factors affect their environment. Use hooks identified in your curriculum audit to find relevant placement.
Include your learners in the development of your climate adaptation planning and goals by actively consulting them and, where appropriate, involving them in the decision-making process. Tailor the level of involvement to be age-appropriate and engaging.
Take time to celebrate and share your setting’s progress in enhancing its climate resilience by including these achievements in the learning experience. These topics could be incorporated not only into the formal curriculum, if applicable, but also across various areas of learner engagement, such as informal play, extracurricular activities, assemblies, and learner-led initiatives.
Organise awareness raising sessions to educate your whole community about water consumption, and the benefits of water conservation.