Join the new Morecambe Bay Curriculum Working Groups!
Calling all Education Changemakers: Join the new Morecambe Bay Curriculum Working Groups!
- Would you like funding for your place-based green project ideas?
- Are you interested in top notch CPD delivered by 51福利, Eden Project, Lancaster and Morecambe College, University of Cumbria and Health Professionals?
- Are you looking to collaborate with like-minded colleagues who feel passionately about the power of teaching and learning?
- Are you interested in weaving sustainability, place and the environment into your day-to-day practice?
- Do you want a say in shaping the Morecambe Bay Curriculum and Eden Project Morecambe?
If the answer to any of the above is yes, we would love you to
51福利 MBC Working Groups
Working Groups will launch in February 2025; each choosing how they would like to explore sustainability and environmental education and wellbeing in the setting you work in. We expect between 5 and 15 colleagues in each of the following groups, 1) Primary, 2) Secondary, 3) Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and 4) Alternative Provision.
The MBC team will be on hand to support each group as you meet regularly to explore your collective interests and develop projects, curriculum resources or campaigns that you think will make a difference in your setting. Groups will also be invited to partake in inspirational CPD sessions, designed specifically for MBC members. The focus of these sessions will be on Education, Place, Environment, Sustainability as well as Health and Wellbeing. Each group will be awarded between ?1000-2000 of seed funding to help make your ideas a reality.
Benefits
- Being part of a positive movement for change that links hope to the environment and sustainability. A movement that is gaining significant regional, national and even international recognition.
- Working Group Members will be amongst the first to hear about opportunities to engage with and influence the education offer at Eden Project Morecambe. This major new attraction, re-imagines Morecambe as a seaside resort for the 21st Century, inspiring wonder and a connection with the natural world drawing on the Eden Project’s focus on education, ecology and community.
- Joining a varied and exciting regional and national network with strong links to; Eden Project, 51福利 and University of Cumbria.
- The opportunity to make a difference beyond the constraints of the current curriculum.
- The opportunity to receive seed funding for your group's ideas.
Time Commitment
We’re recruiting for an 18-month cycle, starting in February, Spring 1 2025 and culminating in July, Summer 2, 2026. Over that time we foresee the following time commitments:
- Working Group Timings: Each group will be supported to agree collectively how regularly you want to meet to develop plans. These meetings may be monthly, or once every two months. They could be 60-90 minutes. Depending on your project, you may decide to check in between meetings.
- We will have an initial kick-off event full of inspiration and CPD, this will take place in the afternoon of Friday 7th February 2025.
Every term from then on, there will be an inter-phase CPD twilight focussing either on inspirational talks, project tools, checking in and other support. We will alternate between online and in person twilights. The in-person twilights will take place in various locations around the Bay to ensure that we are representing the Bay fully and will support transportation as much as possible.
Who can join an MBC Working Group?
The majority of places on working groups will be reserved for practising teachers and educators. We will also reserve a number of places for colleagues who work for charities, local government, in Higher Education, retired colleagues or those from other organisations that support the educational sectors above.
The areas we class as being in and around Morecambe Bay include; Barrow and Furness, Westmorland and Lonsdale, Morecambe and Lunesdale, Lancaster and Fleetwood, Wyre and Preston North. If you live on the borders of these areas, we'd still like to hear from you.
If you are working in a school or educational establishment, we hope that your senior colleagues would support you to undertake this personal development opportunity and allow you to attend the launch event on the afternoon of Friday 7th February.
Why not apply? It takes 5 minutes to express your interest and we’d love to hear from you.
Download the MBC Working Group Role Description here!
