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Developing and implementing a sustainability curriculum across the school is an enormous undertaking. This is a multifaceted topic full of complex concepts scattered across different subjects that are difficult to grasp with many hidden components, and so age-appropriate resources are key. Sustainability has to be taught in authentic contexts and connect with the real-world experiences of children. Fortunately, Kapow Primary has a Sustainability Collection admirably fit for purpose that serves the whole school using a holistic, cross-curricular approach that fosters a sense of responsibility and global citizenship. It is well-rounded and offers engaging, clear, and highly relevant lessons that progressively build understanding to help children become change makers. The Sustainability Collection provides children with plenty of opportunities to link their learning to a variety of issues that mean something to them, their families and communities. It is solutions and action based. The sustainability concepts covered include appreciation of nature, interdependence, resources and waste, climate change, individual and collective responsibility. This broad and balanced collection has been very carefully structured and provides creative and engaging lesson plans along with supporting resources. They contain pre-lesson videos and prep, key vocabulary, teacher notes, activities, support and challenge. Each of the lessons have been well set up. Learning objectives and success criteria are followed by engaging videos for teachers and children and they are the perfect introduction to the topic. They are clear, engaging and well presented. Before the lesson, there is a teacher knowledge section that highlights the key need-to-know bits along with cross-curricular links and pointers. There are lots of exciting downloadable ‘print in advance’ resources to furnish each lesson, too, so you have everything to hand. These are integral to the main lesson and have been well thought through with high engagement and collaborative endeavour at their heart. Each lesson has been brilliantly constructed with recap and recall sections, presentations, attention-grabbing slides and inspiring videos, main event activities and further slides.Wrapping up activities are included with ‘during the week’ activities to focus on, and there are also tips for adaptive teaching and notes on assessing progress and understanding. These lessons help children to weigh evidence, form opinions, present their thinking, draw conclusions, and consider how and why others might see and do things differently. They also encourage empowerment over fear and so have the potential to activate pupil leaders to drive sustainability, steer change, and become advocates for a greener future. The Sustainability Collection helps children understand why they are studying the topic and its relevance to their own lives. It teaches them how to debate, listen and assess alternative points of view, and judge for themselves the relative merits of different views. Sustainability is commonly seen as an add-on that must compete for time within an already crowded curriculum, but Kapowmakes teaching it a key competency and an integral part of the curriculum. This is a must-have for your sustainability lead and your school’s sustainability and climate change strategy. Amust-have for supporting your school’s sustainability teaching and strategy AT A GLANCE SUSTA I NAB I L I TY Highly engaging sustainability lesson plans for Reception to Year 6 Packed with practical resources to prepare children for a sustainable future A cohesive and interdisciplinary approach for maximum impact Full of deep-dive questions and activities to promote eco-thinking Brilliantly compiled content Sign up for a free trial at tinyurl.com/tp-KapowSustainability or email enquiries@kapowprimary.com Accessible and engaging Promotes autonomous critical thinking and collaborative problem solving Inspires hope and helps children have agency and take action Promotes safeguarding and wellbeing by combatting eco-anxiety Supports a holistic view of sustainability Develops responsibility and global citizenship Bolsters confidence in teachers Perfect for auditing and setting up a Sustainability Club ...you are looking for a coordinated, comprehensive and creative whole-school approach to teaching sustainability and creating a sustainable school eco-culture and community. VERD I CT UPGRADE I F . . . REVIEWED BY: JOHN DABELL KapowPrimary Sustainability Collection 80 | www.teachwire.net RE V I EWS