EMC CPD Webinar: Bringing Climate Education into the English Classroom
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Availability -
Places available
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Price - £45 per place
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Location - Online
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Duration - 2-3.30pm
See Booking Details for how to take advantage of our 2 for 1 offer.
The recent Curriculum and Assessment Review recommended ‘Climate education and sustainability’ as one of five key knowledge areas. While the focus of this work will be in Science and Geography lessons, English has its own role to play. This webinar will draw on short stories, non-fiction and poetry to explore how eco-lit can add value to your teaching and inspire your students.
Attendees will:
- Reflect on how to introduce eco-lit into the classroom
- Be introduced to a wide range of eco-lit that works well with students
- Explore how students can engage with the natural world through textual study
- Engage with pedagogical approaches that work well with nature writing
- Get exclusive access to two eco-lit schemes of work.
This course will contain new material and also draw on two previous courses: Using Nature Writing to Support GCSE English Language and Learning About Poetry Using Six Nature Poems.
This course will be recorded but attendees will not be audible or visible.
EMC's Webinar Packages
- This webinar is included in EMC's Webinar Packages. For details of the EMC Termly Webinar Package – Summer 2026 and to order for your department, click here.
- See 'Further Details' for how to join this webinar if your department already has the EMC Annual Webinar Package or the EMC Termly Webinar Package – Summer 2026.
Online, via Zoom. Details of how to join will be sent before the session.
- If relevant, course materials will be sent the day before the course in the email with your joining instructions. Please either print these out or have them available on screen during the session.
- After the session you will receive the PowerPoint presentation and any resources used on the course.
- After the session you will receive a link to register to watch a recording of this session on-demand until 31st August 2026.
How to join this course if your department has bought the webinar package
- To join the live session, register using the registration link sent to the departmental key contact. You can register to join the live session right up to the start of the webinar. Use the unique link sent by [email protected] to join the webinar on the day.
- To watch the recording on-demand, register using the on-demand registration link sent to the departmental key contact the day after the live session. This email will also include the PowerPoint presentation and any additional resources. On-demand access expires 31st August 2026.
Really enjoyed the course thoroughly and appreciated in particular the concrete ideas for how to use the texts in the classroom. High quality and thoughtful, thank you!
Rosie Pickford Scienti, Hampton School, EMC CPD Online: Using Nature Writing to Support GCSE English Language (4.6.24 Summer 24)
The course contained exactly what I've come to expect from the EMC: high-quality and exciting resources, a range of exciting ideas and strategies for the classroom (and ones that I know my pupils will really enjoy), and a lovely blend of theory and practice.
Catherine Sides, EMC CPD Online: Using Nature Writing to Support GCSE English Language (4.6.24 Summer 24)
Really enjoyed it. As always top-notch resources and ideas that are modelled and explained, with room for group discussion. I really value the tone and feel of the whole experience - it fosters trust, enthusiasm and pushed me to think more innovatively for my students.
Eleanor Hallam, Shiplake College, EMC CPD Online: Using Nature Writing to Support GCSE English Language (4.6.24 Summer 24)
Andrew McCallum
Andrew McCallum is Director of the English and Media Centre. Prior to that he ran a PGCE course in secondary English, and previously he taught for 15 years in London schools, spending most of that time at Acland Burghley School in Camden. He holds a doctorate in education, is author of Creativity and Learning in Secondary English (Routledge) and writes regularly for NATE's Teaching English magazine. If asked to name the EMC publication he's most proud of having worked on, it would be a three-way contest between Iridescent Adolescent, Diverse Shorts and Write On.
EMC's Webinar Packages
- This webinar is included in EMC's Webinar Packages. For details of the EMC Termly Webinar Package – Summer 2026 and to order for your department, click here.
- See 'Further Details' for how to join this webinar if your department already has the EMC Annual Webinar Package or the EMC Termly Webinar Package – Summer 2026.
Booking this course as a 'one-off' purchase
- Bookings for this course will close at 8am (London, UK) on Friday 29th May 2026, or when capacity is reached, whichever is the sooner.
- This course is part of our 2 for 1 offer
- Book a place on this course and you’ll be sent a voucher code entitling you to book a further place on the same course for a colleague at your school. Your code will be emailed to you as soon as we have received your booking.
- Please note: bookings for this course close at 8am on Friday 29th May 2026. The 2nd free place must be booked before the closing date, so please make sure you give yourself enough time!
- Your voucher can only be redeemed online and is only eligible against this course.
(Any issues please email Lucy.)
- This course must be booked and paid for online. Payment by invoice is not available for this session. Please note: your fee is non-refundable.
- To book this course you must be signed into one of the following accounts (registering an account first if you need to):
- UK Trust/Academy – Head Office (purchasing)
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- UK Teacher – Home Address Only
- UK Private Individual
- Overseas
- If you have a UK Educator Standard account you will not be able to book the course. Sign in to your account and add it to your Wishlist. See the list of people able to book courses at your organisation by clicking ‘My Account’, then ‘Our Admin Users’.
- Click 'Book now’ (right-hand column).
- Add the number of places you need.
- Fill in the names and email addresses of the people attending. To secure your place, please make sure you add the attendee details immediately and checkout within 24 minutes. Otherwise the booking will expire and you will have to begin the process again.
- Click submit and then Go to basket.
- Checkout. (Payment by invoice is not available for this session.)
- IF TAKING ADVANTAGE OF OUR 2 FOR 1 OFFER, PLEASE WAIT TO BE SENT YOUR CODE BEFORE BOOKING YOUR 2ND PLACE.
- Once you have booked your place, you will see a screen indicating your order has been successful. You may want to make a note of your order number. The person making the booking and the attendee will receive an automatic acknowledgement of your booking.
- Instructions on how to join the course (including Zoom login details) will be sent from [email protected] for the first time on the day bookings close. Reminders, including any course handouts, will be sent the day before and one-hour before the course. Please check your junk or promotions folder. Still no luck? Email Lucy before 1pm on the course day.
Cancellation and amendments
- Afternoon and twilight webinars must be paid for by card at the time of booking.
- The fee is non-refundable.
- However, the webinars are recorded. Anyone who books a place on the course will be sent a link to register to access the recording of the webinar until 31st August 2026, regardless of whether they attended live.
