MAP Climate Change and Environment Curriculum - Varndean School

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1		Question 1: Curriculum Education:	Question 2: Procurement / Consumption:	Nominate Staff for a prize who have driven this curriculum forward.
2		What lessons / schemes of learning / topics include Climate Change context or education in your subject area? Eg: Year group/ module/ summary of topic/content or Learning Obj	Has your department made changes to its suppliers in resources/ equipment/ stationary etc with the view of lowering carbon emissions/ selecting responsibly made products/ lesser damaging/polluting products? If so please give details:
3	ART	Y7: Unit 1 Natural World - bees and polution. Look at the work of naturalists and their recording of the natural world - Maria Merian, J.J.Audubon, Todd Forsgren, David Attenborough Y7: Architecture project - remodelled to look at sustainability in materials and design. Artist/architect - Hundertwasser (Climate crisis campaigner and activist) Y8: Australian indigenous peoples link to land in relation to climate crisis. Y9: Fragments of a City - Look at work of Stanley Donwood LA prints and message about climate crisis	- we recycle card from reprographics dept for acrylic painting palettes to minimise paint going into waterways. We have looked at alternatives to using acrylic paints but this has proved problematic and difficult/expensive to source. -We aim to recycle paper wherever possible - we use old books from the library for collage etc. -We re-claim clay wherever possible. - We try to use PVA glue where possible to minimise use of pritt-sticks	Whole art dept.
4	Maths	Adapted GCSE questions to use climate context. This will be ongoing as more rresources become available . Outdoor growing bed with monitoring on chance, probability, weather monitoring vs growth etc.	We only print for assessments, so do not use the printer/paper each day for class work. Scientific calculaltors purchased have solar charging, therefore we are able to use these each year, so more cost efficient. Whiteboard cleaner has refills so we reuse the containers.
5	English	Yr10/11 Lang P2 Section B: Non-fiction writing - speeches/letters/articles. Carbon footprint / fast fashion / speech for a debate to persuade young people to take more responsibility for protecting the environment. Research - stats, facts, etc. We need to consider how explicitly we address this as we work on our 23/24 curriculum for KS3.	We now have refills for board pens. We need pen recycling boxes and more bins. I am also clamping down equipment logs for stduents losing and asking for pens, and buying less stationery - staff accountability.
6	Biology	New lessons put into yr 8 curriculum - the carbon cycle measuring carbon content of trees, food security and sustainability, air pollution lesson and practical. Yr 10 project vegetable garden, incorporating many elements of GCSE biology and chemistry environmental topics. Yr 7 investigation using lichen as air pollution indicators	- we now use refillable board pen pots and we are using significantly less board pens as a department. - Many classrooms still have pen recycling boxes too. - We have trialled different more sustainable biros and we are still working out the best way to do this. - Unused book pages at the end of the year are removed and used as lined paper, we have significantly reduced the amount of lined paper purchased. - Any worksheets are hole punched and added to books using treasury tags resulting in very little glue being purchased,	Ciara McGinley Science Technicians - Hazel Johnson, Rhianna Ricketts and Emma Nolan
7	Chemistry	New Lessons in addition to our NC teaching requirements - yr 8 - RSC Battery sustainability practical, - yr 8 the carbon cycle measuring carbon content of trees. - Yr 10 project vegetable garden, incorporating many elements of GCSE biology and chemistry environmental topics . - Level 3 Unit Award Scheme in 'Understanding the climate crisis' also being offered as a KS$ extra curriculur lesson - We have signed up to recieve a free air pollution monitor, this collates data for the school and is shared nationally. It will be placed on the Ditchiling Road. I will raise awareness at our next B&H HoD's of Science meet to encourage other schools in the city to be part of the scheme.	As Bio	Ciara McGinley Science Technicians - Hazel Johnson, Rhianna Ricketts and Emma Nolan
8	Physics	yr 8 - RSC Battery sustainability practical	As Bio	Ciara McGinley Science Technicians - Hazel Johnson, Rhianna Ricketts and Emma Nolan
9	History	We have spent the year auditing the wider curriculum and refining our topics at key stage 3. We have done this in order of free up some space on the very crowded curriculum to explore the climate issue in more depth with specifically designed lessons. This year we have added in elements of climate and enviormental history when looking at things such as the Columbian Exchange, the Little Ice Age, colonisation of Australia, Native American, Aboriginal Australian civilisation, and early human settlements. We are aiming to create specific lessons with our industrial revolution scheme of work and our protest module in refrence to the start of manmade climate change and the Extinction Rebellion/ Juststop Oil protests. We are still looking fir siome scope toi add this to Key stage 4 but are limited buy the history GCSE specification.	- Using hole punched book and treasury tags instead of glue. - Recycling resources and resuing worksheets - Ensuring students are fully using the space in their books to cut doen on students getting second books - Using GCSEpod and Google classroom for resources - Encouraging students to donate revisipn resources for other students to use, such as books and flash cards	Toby HGawker
10	Geography	Every GCSE topic touches on climate science in some capacity. Majority of KS3 topic also, it is well interleaved in the curriculum visit to offshore windfarm	Use of the Geography website cuts down printing substantially	Alex Bishop, Adam Michaels
11	Philosophy	Year 7 - Environment as an ethical issues, Specialist schools - several debates have been around environmental issues such as eating meat. Year 10 - unit on stewardship and climate change	Lessons are aimed to be taught with no/minimal printing
12	Technology	year 7 year 8 : Technology in the Outdoor Envoronment: Building bird boxews, landscaping for nature, tree planting and maintenance. KS3 projects have been relaunched with a Planet first focus- Nature themed/ Climate change context- eg- year 7 Ball Bearing game-advocating desing for a environment first client- WWF PREP Homework tasks to ks3: Circular Economy, Fast Fashion, Energy generation.	Printing has been reduced for Ks3, materials used have been replaced with biofriendly materials and will be an ongoing process	Charlie Evans - devloping KS3 projects (eg Rampion delivering a brief for Varndean students)
13	Food & Nutrition	Year 9: Impact of fishing - wild and farmed, FOod Provenance- Organic farming vs intensive. Plant based diet carbon footprint, food miles.	All dairy free using plant based products, plastic free packaging, Eco laundry products, significant reduced photocopying. All Plant based recipes in ks3 and encouraged in ks4.
14	Drama	Specialist schools (Y7) do a play based on deforestation and saving rainforests based on children's story book 'The Great Kapok Tree' - Year 9, 10, 11 there are opporunitites for devised work using stimuli and research/info about climate change.	Not really but...Great efforts are taken to reduce printing/use of paper and to do things digitally/online and provide resources, revision and Year 11 revision webinar videos instead. Theatre trips no longer have physical printed out tickets, we use our own methods for arranging seating.
15	Dance	Year 7 specialist schools continue to explore the climate crisis through observation of media sources and then use it to inform their own creativity and development of movement phsically. They have also been exploring different sites to perform that help conserve energy usage in the school building by being outside. This group have also explore costume and set through recycable materials. In year 9 GCSE students are looking at the effects of pollution on the body and how this can be interpretted into choreography for their forthcoming assessment.	Recycling of costumes for assessments. Recycling paper. Conserving energy - lights/projector etc. Printing is kept to a minimum.
16	Physical Education	y10/11 gcse: Identifying the carbon footprint of delivering on large scale Global sporting events eg FIFA World Cup, and the term "Greenwashing". Extra curricular - Healthy lifestyle Promotion through cycling club. Recycling PE kit . Encourage multi use water bottles . Discourage single use plastic (school water bottles / sports day ). Facility litter picks. Restrict heating sports hall . Reduced use of paper through ipad registers.	New Staff PE kit Masuri https://www.masuri.com/pages/environmental-policyand student Match kits supplied . Outdoor learing of course!	Stuart Tuck (Mr Fix it) Avoids renewing / purchasing new equipment by repairing equipment . Always goes above and beyond !
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18	Film/Media	Topics cross over themes and issues concerning the environment and tasks in Yr9 especially are specifically orientated towards environmental issues, ie. the creation of websites highlighting protests for environmental change. Some aspects of the NEA have been adapted to include environmental concerns and foci.	Use of Google Classroom in every lesson cuts down on paper resources. We buy materials for both courses second-hand wherever possible.
19	Music	Gamelan has been the initial opportunity to talk about climate change affecting Indonesia. It is spoken about explicitly within the context about learning about wider context about Gamelan. Equally year 7s have had a learning-about-song and songwriting project around the subject of climate change. Jonie Mitchell's 'Big Yellow Taxi' has been the core-featured song. Year 8s have previously done a horror movie project using minimalism. This is going to be inspired from now on about some of the awful affects on the planet leading to minimalist-style climate-change pieces. Also our Reggae project with year 8s should also explore ideas of climate change impact on the Carribbean. Year 9 set-brief compositions will now include a binary form piece about climate change.
20	MFL	The current GCSE (Yr9 and Yr10 are doing this spec) includes a topic on Environment. The new GCSE for current Yr8 and below there are no topics just high frequency vocabulary so not sure yet how this will look. They currently need to know more obscure words words such as global warming, extinction and they need to discuss what they and their family do for environment and talk about how green their town is. Specicif keyword vocabulry to engage inthe conversation in MFL	We are a resource heavy subject and printing is an issue. We do however shrink things down a lot to save paper. We also started using refillable Edding pens with ink with minui whiteboards but find the students are deliberately pushing in the pens so they can't be refilled and used. An issue we need to tackle.
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22	ILS	Studtsn have undertaken in dividual research pojects whcih increase their understsding of the CC situation. Focusing on the beuty nad special relationship we have with Nature.
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