This online CPD session supports primary geography educators in delivering high-quality, progressive teaching on sustainability and climate change—both in the classroom and through use of school grounds. Aligned with the DfE’s 2025 target for all schools to appoint a sustainability lead and implement a climate action plan, this course offers practical, interactive, and content-rich support for teachers at all experience levels.
This training responds directly to the recent Curriculum and Assessment Review’s clear message that climate change now belongs firmly within geography, not just science. It helps teachers embed climate as a conceptual thread—from weather, to climate, to climate change—supporting the mastery model outlined in the review. The training also addresses the social and human dimensions of climate change, including environmental migration and local impacts, reflecting the review’s emphasis on geography as the study of people–environment interactions. Teachers gain the confidence and clarity needed to integrate climate change meaningfully and coherently across the curriculum.
Key outcomes for participants:
- Increased understanding of sustainability and climate change issues in an educational context
- Clear insight into the elements of a progressive, creative, and enquiry-based curriculum.
- Practical strategies and examples for teaching sustainability across EYFS to Year 6.
- A toolkit of resources, schemes of work, and activities to implement in school settings.
- Greater confidence and inspiration to lead and embed sustainability education.
About the speaker
Gyles Morris is a creative and dynamic leading education consultant who specialises in outdoor learning. He works nationally and internationally with teachers and children at all stages of learning in variety of indoor and outdoor classroom settings delivering training, workshops and giving keynote speeches.
As founder Director of Naturesbase, he is a true example of someone who ‘walks the talk’. He trained as a landscape architect designing formal and informal spaces and school grounds for people to positively interact with, then retrained as a teacher and has spent over 25 years engaging and inspiring pupils, students and teachers in the outdoor environment
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