Blog
December 26, 2021
As 2021 comes to an end and Teach the Future enters its third year, it seems fitting to re-introduce ourselves to everyone new. Despite the pandemic, we’ve had a busy (but COVID-safe) year.
December 23, 2021
Before logging off to enjoy Christmas, we thought we’d use this last opportunity to talk through our Christmas list! Santa, you better be listening!! You may have seen this post on our Instagram page but what do we mean by these? Let’s break it down!
December 19, 2021
Dr Meryl Batchelder is a science teacher at Corbridge Middle School, Northumberland, a UN accredited climate change teacher and a wonderful supporter of our campaign! She has kindly shared with us her piece, 'From COP to Classroom: Teaching in a Climate Crisis' which gives an insight into navigating the world today from the perspective of a teacher. Teachers are our keys to education and are the ones who it falls upon to 'Teach the Future'. We are extremely grateful for all the work they do. Read Dr Meryl Batchelders blog below.
December 16, 2021
The last few months have seen many of us at Teach the Future return to school and university, but that doesn’t mean we’ve been slacking off in our activism. Since October we’ve spoken with major exam boards, supported fellow activists at COP26, dealt with some difficult topics in the campaign, and taken the fight to Westminster.
December 12, 2021
On 23rd November, MP Nadia Whittome introduced our Climate Education Bill into Parliament - here are the highlights
December 2, 2021
At the start of November, the Department for Education announced their new draft strategy plan for climate and sustainability. While it touches on some of our asks, it falls short of what is needed in three key areas from our Teach the Future asks.
November 26, 2021
This week, the first-ever student-written education bill was presented to UK Parliament. The English Climate Emergency Education Bill was brought forward by 25-year-old Nadia Whittome, MP for Nottingham East and youngest current member of Parliament. 17-year-old Scarlett Westbrook, a prominent youth climate activist and Teach the Future member, was one of the students involved in putting the bill together.
November 26, 2021
Climate change will inevitably big a huge part in our children's future, so how do we teach them about it, while still protecting their innocence? On this week's episode of Sky News ClimateCast, host Sarah Hewson is joined by Teach the Future campaigner Scarlett Westbrook, who tells us how she's on her way to changing the school education system to have climate change embedded into the curriculum.
November 25, 2021
A new climate education bill has been called for matters relating to climate change and sustainability to be integrated throughout the curriculum in primary and secondary schools and included in vocational training courses.
November 23, 2021
A bill calling for the climate crisis to be taught across the whole of the school curriculum is set to be tabled in parliament, with those involved saying it is the first-ever to be written by students.
November 23, 2021
Nadia Whittome told MPs her bill to integrate climate change and sustainability into the curriculum would ‘prepare young people for the future'. She said that if the education system “isn’t preparing young people to help mitigate and deal with the impacts of climate change, then it is failing them”.
November 19, 2021
On Tuesday 23rd, there's a ten-minute rule bill from Labour's Nadia Whittome to require climate change and sustainability to become key content across the school curriculum, integrated into every subject. The bill is the culmination of her work with Teach the Future - a school pupil-led group - on climate education and the decarbonisation of the education sector.