Salik Miah & Bethany Cafferkey

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Salik and Bethany are senior lecturers in Primary Education at Leeds Trinity University. As former primary teachers with over 20 years combined experience, they bring expertise from subject and key-stage leadership to their roles in ITE.

They are the curriculum co-leads for Art and Design at Climate Adapted Pathways for Education (CAPE) and have just released Teaching Climate Change Through the Primary Art Curriculum. The guidance has been published in partnership with TATE Modern who Bethany and Salik have worked closely with to develop a curriculum tool that can support practitioners to introduce and embed climate change education in the primary Art curriculum.

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Future makers: Art, Climate and the Power of Imagination

This workshop is open to all colleagues in art teaching and leadership, and may be of particular interest to Primary Art subject leads. No previous experience required.

Aims and outcomes:

To be able to develop an understanding of the importance of self-regulation in teaching climate change education.
To be able to reflect on current feelings around climate change education in the curriculum.
To be able to plan for short, medium and long term curriculum development that introduces climate change education in the Art curriculum.

Materials required:

Coloured pens, pencils or paint. Plain paper or sugar paper.

Access to Teaching Climate Change Through the Primary Art Curriculum