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A community-curated, place-based approach to learning about sustainability - encouraging and empowering children and young people to become the change-makers and innovators our planet needs.
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About Morecambe Bay Curriculum
Together, we are exploring how we can weave sustainability and place into everyday lives around Morecambe Bay so that every young person can feel empowered to be a change-maker.
The Morecambe Bay Curriculum aims to ensure that all stages of the education system, from early years to further education, provide the green skills, knowledge, and behaviours required by businesses, and our communities, to respond to climate change. The Morecambe Bay Curriculum is supported and delivered by teachers, early years practitioners, researchers, health professionals and community leaders who recognise that a collective approach is critical to tackling the climate emergency and creating opportunities for young people.
The heart of the Morecambe Bay Curriculum is the community of educators, who together curate content and bring the project to life at a grassroots level. Children and young people explore the themes of environment, sustainability and place using the ecosystems surrounding the Bay as a classroom. Collectively, teachers are driven by their hopes for the young people with whom they work, and seek to prioritise their wellbeing, support their future careers, and ensure the Bay is somewhere everyone feels proud to live.
Join the Morecambe Bay Curriculum
Educators across Morecambe Bay are all welcome to join the Morecambe Bay Curriculum community. You’ll receive newsletters, access to our MBC Moodle, resources, networking invitations, CPD opportunities and more!
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Resources for our Bay: Place, Sustainability, Environment and Hope
Head to our resources page to explore research-informed teaching materials! This work has been co-designed by local educators (from Early Years through to FE) and Lancaster University experts on Place, Environment and Sustainability. The resources encourage us to learn what makes Morecambe Bay special and how we can take care of it; from the tiniest beach worms, to the mighty curlew and everything in between. By weaving place, environment and sustainability into the curriculum, these resources were designed to help teachers feel more confident embedding climate-change, sustainability and nature into their day-to-day teaching.
We care about where we live, we care about the people who live here, and we care about the future of our planet.
Our community
Our working groups meet once a month to discuss project plans and share learning.
- The Early Years, Primary and Special School Working Group (Lancashire)
- Secondary Schools Working Group (Lancashire)
- Further Education & Employers Working Group
- Cumbria Schools Working Group
- Higher Education Working Group
All of our working groups are guided by the Morecambe Bay Curriculum Steering Group, made up of leaders from across the education, environmental, health, business and charity sectors.
If you would like to join our community, please see our Get involved page.
Our Partnership Board
In recognition of this exciting work, Lancaster University, Lancaster and Morecambe College, University of Cumbria and Eden Project, in partnership, have committed to empowering educators and young people, and to supporting this work as it continues to grow. These organisations are responsible for the project's overall governance, ensuring it has the resources necessary to serve our community.
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Lancaster and Morecambe College
A key provider of technical, professional and creative education.
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Lancaster University
A leading global research-intensive university.
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Eden Project
Eden Project demonstrates and inspires positive action for the planet.
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University of Cumbria
Where lives are enriched to become the world changers of tomorrow.
What educators love about the Morecambe Bay Curriculum
Find out more about the Morecambe Bay Curriculum, and ways in which our community has come together to support young people across the Bay to love where they live and develop green skills.
Partner organisations
Our key partner organisations span the range from early years through to higher education, along with community and business partners.
Our partners Accordion
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Higher education partners
Lancaster University
University of Cumbria
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Schools, colleges and early years and educational partners
Bay Leadership Academy
Carnforth High School
Cartmel Priory C of E School
Central Lancaster High School
Cumbria Development Education Centre
Dallam School
Furness College
Lancaster and Morecambe College
Lancaster Girls' Grammar School
Lancaster Royal Grammar School
Little Chatters
Milnthorpe Primary School
Morecambe Bay Academy
Morecambe Road School
Myerscough College
Our Lady's Catholic College
Overton St Helen's Primary School
Primed for Life
Queen Elizabeth Studio School
Ripley St Thomas
Ryelands Primary and Nursery School
Sandcastles Nursery
Sandgate School, Kendal
Secret Garden Learning
South Cumbria PRS
South Lakes Federation
South Walney Infants School
St Mary's Catholic Primary School
St Paul’s School, Barrow
Walney Secondary School
Westgate Primary School
Witherslack Group Ltd
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Community and business partners
Ascentis
Bay Medical Group
Cumbria LEP
Global Link
Inspira
Lancaster City Council
Lancaster & District CVS
Lancaster & District Chamber of Commerce
Lancs Fire & Rescue Service
Lancaster BID
Lancashire LEP & Skills Hub
LESS UK
Morecambe Bay Partnership
UMBEL Restaurant Group
News and case studies
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Eden Project Morecambe
The Morecambe Bay Curriculum is recognised and supported by the Eden Project Morecambe.
Eden Project Morecambe![Looking out through glass domes from an indoor botanical garden.](/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/images/morecambe-bay-curriculum/PXBEden1600x600.jpg)