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With climate action plans now mandatory in England, heatwaves and floods threatening safety and wellbeing, and green careers providing more opportunities for our students’ futures – now is the time for sustainability action in school. Let us support you to upskill ready to prepare effective climate action plans, engage your school community and equip your community with green careers advice and trajectories.
What we do
Our CPD-accredited Education & Skills team design and deliver interactive, inspiring and informative workshops to upskill your staff and students ready for a sustainable future.
We use our cross-sector experience as sustainability practitioners and teachers, including as the training partner for the national Climate Ambassadors programme, so are well-placed to help schools to effectively embed climate action into operations, teaching, student opportunities & culture.
We have three main training options:
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Carbon Literacy training
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Green Careers staff training
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Sustainable Futures student worksohp
We are always happy to design bespoke training to meet your aims, gaps and context.
Carbon Literacy: Sustainability Leadership for Schools
Being Carbon Literate represents “An awareness of the carbon costs and impacts of everyday activities, and the ability and motivation to reduce emissions, on an individual, community and organisational basis.” Join over 160,000 certified learners.
This one-day certified training course designed specifically for school staff equips you with the knowledge and resources to commence or progress impactful climate action in a way that suits your school priorities and community.
Our accredited course is aligned to the Department for Education’s four climate action plan pillars to support an integrated, efficient and engaging approach to climate action. Our experienced team have delivered Carbon Literacy to over 1,000 learners to date and also have backgrounds as school teachers, to ensure an impactful and effective course.
We typically host the course as three two-hour sessions alongside around two hours of self-led study. After joining the live sessions you will complete a short Evidence Form, which we expect to take around 30 minutes, in order to get certified by The Carbon Literacy Project. Our public cohorts can be booked on Eventbrite but we can also host private sessions, virtually or in-person for staff and students over 16 years old.
CPD-accredited
Green Career Staff Training
This highly interactive training is designed to recognise where your staff are already championing future skills, build clarity and understanding of green career options, trends and pathways, and help clarify the next steps to unlock student opportunities and support.
Your team will leave with insight into:
What is sustainability?
Understanding the core concepts of our current challenges and how they're affecting the workplace.
New and changing career opportunities
What jobs are being created that we should support, and what are the demands of the green transition across sectors and organisations?
Sustainability skills & development
The demand and gaps across sectors, and how to support students and staff to develop them; with tools & tips to support students to unlock a future-ready and resilient career.
Our three-hour workshop is CPD-accredited. Bespoke non-accredited lengths and structures are available.
Sustainable Futures
Student workshop
Our interactive Sustainable Futures workshops engage secondary school students with what sustainability means to them and how it plays a role in their future.
Students will identify and build sustainability skills, understand career opportunities across sectors and identify their strengths and values to help design and support their future career.
Our sessions cover:
Introducing Sustainability
What is sustainability and what challenges do we face?
Creating solutions
It’s no use just knowing the challenges; what are the opportunities? We’ll develop workplace sustainability skills as students develop and present sustainability solutions.
My Skills & Values
What is my role? Reflective activities help students to identify their skills and motivations to build confidence and career direction.We'll offer career guidance, informed by our 25 year+ experience as a sustainability employment provider.
We are proud to be the training partner for the national Climate Ambassadors programme, funded by the UK Government. Here we train our community of over 1000 volunteers who support education settings to develop and deliver effective climate action plans.
If you want to learn more about the programme and request a Climate Ambassador, visit the website. If you are interested in bespoke climate action plan focused workshops and trainings, please do contact us.