Teaching & Learning
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This section contains information about National Curriculum requirements and opportunities for sustainable development categorised by key stage and by subject. It also provides links to case studies illustrating some of the different ways schools are approaching sustainability.
The National Curriculum acknowledges that education is a route to equality of opportunity for all, to a healthy and just democracy, to a productive economy as well as to sustainable development.
Sustainable development is also included in the values, aims and purposes of the National Curriculum.
Sustainable development is about helping pupils develop knowledge, understanding, values and skills. The curriculum, approaches to teaching, and the learning experiences that pupils have are all key elements of effective sustainable development.
In some subjects, there is a requirement for sustainable development to be taught, either by specific references within the programmes of study or by references that clearly promote the study of relationships between the environment, society and the economy.
There are also opportunities, either by using programme of study requirements in a subject to engage pupils in learning that may support sustainable development, or by using it as a context for promoting sustainable development in other subjects. There are also opportunities for using sustainable development as a stimulating context for learning across the school curriculum.
The development of skills, including responsible decision-making and lifelong learning, supports education for sustainable development.
Sustainable development has clear links with a number of curriculum subjects, notably geography, citizenship and science, but it also has ties to many other aspects of the curriculum, such as literacy, numeracy, thinking skills and key skills.
