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Image 1: The Thames Music Makers Musical Extravaganza at Riverside Studios. See Climate news story below
Climate education is a key priority for the Education Service as it is children and young people’s futures that will be most affected by decisions taken today.
We have a range of exciting projects and resources listed below that we invite you to get involved with.
Mudlarks
The Mudlarks project in partnership with local charity, Urbanwise.London has bought together primary children and local businesses in a range of climate related activities and workshops from cleaning up our waterways to creating a music video.
Wouldn’t it be better if people cared more about the environment we live in? Wouldn’t it be better if we all chipped in to change the way we live right now? Wouldn’t it be cool? Wouldn’t it be fun? Wouldn’t it be most incredible for sure?
Wouldn’t it be better to reduce our use of plastics on a daily basis? Wouldn’t it be better to choose to use things with less packaging each day? Wouldn’t it be cool? Wouldn’t it be fun? Wouldn’t it be most incredible for sure?
Wouldn’t it be better to reduce instead of wasting money buying more? Wouldn’t it be better if we all just used things that we already have? Wouldn’t it be cool? Wouldn’t it be fun? Wouldn’t it be most incredible for sure?
Wouldn’t it be better if we recycled everything that we possibly can? Wouldn’t it be better to save our world by recycling everything at hand? Wouldn’t it be cool? Wouldn’t it be fun? Wouldn’t it be most incredible for sure? Wouldn’t it be cool? Wouldn’t it be fun? Wouldn’t it be most incredible for sure?
Our annual Summer in the City programme engages children and families with the environment and ecology to further understand the impact of nature and being outdoors upon our community’s health.
The Climate Education Guide provides a general overview with useful links and resources, along with a menu of activities to help you in meeting curriculum and staff development within your school.
Climate Education Group
H&F host two Climate Education Groups for primary and secondary teachers each term to share learning and creative ways to engage their school community with climate education projects.
Climate Education Guide
We developed a Climate Education Guide alongside the Climate Education Group as a free open resource for schools to use both nationally and internationally.
EduCCate Global
Many of our teachers have completed the UN backed climate accreditation EduCCate Global.
On Wednesday 3 July, local school children showcased the results of this first year of the new H&F Mudlarks project at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith. A partnership between H&F Education and Urbanwise.London.
5 key local primary schools participated, forging links and gathering valuable support from BBC studios, Lyric Theatre, Thames 21, Plogolution, The Royal College of Art and The Whale Company.
Speakers included:
Jan Parnell, Assistant Director of Education, Hammersmith & Fulham Council
Jonathan Williams, BBC Executive Producer, Oceans: Our Blue Planet 3D
Praveen Gopalan, Sustainability Executive, BBC studios
Councillor Larry Culhane, Cabinet Member for Children and Education, Hammersmith & Fulham Council
Schools included:
Brackenbury Primary School
Avonmore Primary School
St John Walham Green
John Betts Primary
Miles Coverdale Primary
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Image 2 Miles Coverdale and Fulham Academy Trust pupils and staff participating virtually in the Madrid UN COP 25 conference.
Youth Council
Our Youth Council are active in climate change with Hammersmith & Fulham Council being the first London authority to give its support to the 2020 Youth Climate Summit.
To keep up to date with what we’re doing as a council to tackle the climate and ecological emergency and read community stories please sign up to our Climate Connects Newsletter written in collaboration with the Climate Unit.
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