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Annual Conference
Morecambe Bay Curriculum Conference
Every year, the Morecambe Bay Curriculum hosts an annual conference to welcome all educators across the Bay. This year the conference willl be held at LICA, Lancaster University on Friday 5th July 2024.
MBC Conference 2024
We warmly invite all teachers, educators and educational organisations to this FREE conference. You can expect to be inspired by speakers, experience high quality CPD that helps you to embed sustainability and place into your teaching, and network with likeminded colleagues. Our Keynote speakers, Dr Andy Knox will be encouraging us to re-imagine health and Sam Kendall from the Eden Project, will be giving us an exclusive peak into the plans for Eden Project Morecambe. You will be gifted the hot off the press MBC resource pack which has been co-created this year by local teachers and Lancaster University academics and is jam packed with ideas of how you can embed sustainability and place into your lessons. You can also expect to connect with your favourite environmental and educational organisations from around the Bay and hear about how they can support you and your work. These include; Natural England, Where the Wildings Are, North-West Beach School Network and many more!
We hope this will be an informative and joyful day, celebrating the great work of teachers across the Bay. A delicious plant-based lunch will also be provided and we hope that you will join us at the end of the day to continue the conversation over a couple of drinks.
50% of the tickets for this event have already gone, so we recommend that you book your place asap! We would love to see you there.
Please click on our booking link and join us on Friday 5th July at LICA, Lancaster University 9:30 am - 4:00 pm (with drinks and networking 4 pm-6 pm)
Conference Aims
The MBC Conference welcomes all teachers and educators across the Bay, we foster a space for place-based, collaborative projects and curriculum to come to life in your classroom! Our 2024 aims specifically address:
- Hosting an inclusive, dedicated space for teachers to meet other partners involved in sustainability and place in the Bay, in order to join up thinking and create connections that will benefit teachers, pupils and our local area
- Inspiring teachers by benefiting from the latest CPD in health, wellbeing and co-design to improve our ecosystems and relationships in Morecambe Bay
- Helping teachers to embed sustainability and place into your practice by hosting deliberate conversations between Lancaster University partners and friends of the MBC
Keynote Speakers
The MBC is proud to announce our 2024 line up of fantastic keynote speakers!
Dr Andy Knox
Andy Knox is a husband, a dad and a friend. He is also Associate Medical Director in the Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB and a GP Partner at Ash Trees Surgery, Carnforth. His work is primarily focused on improving Population Health and tackling Health Inequity. He co-founded the LSC Population Health Leadership Academy, is Population Health Associate at the King’s Fund, Associate at the Centre for Population Health, a member of the NHS Assembly, Vice-Chair of the South Westmorland MAT, Director of The Well Communities, part of the Poverty Truth Commission and Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Health at Lancaster University. He has recently published his first book, ‘Sick Society’ (www.drandyknox.com/sicksocietybook).
He is impressively tall when sat down, but disappointingly short when stood up and has a ridiculously loud laugh. He is often found singing on walks with his Springer Spaniel around the beauty that is Morecambe Bay. He was recently awarded an MBE in the King’s Birthday Honours list for services to Primary Care and Health Inequalities. Twitter: @drandyknox Blog:reimagininghealth.com
Sam Kendall
Sam has led the Eden Project’s work with schools, young people and their teachers since 2010 in her role as Head of School Learning. Eden’s Schools Team design and deliver programmes and projects for children and young people and offer training, consultancy and resources. This work supports Eden’s vision for children and young people who are motivated and equipped to create, and flourish in, a better world in which people and nature thrive.
Sam has been a member of Eden’s Education Team since the project opened, establishing Eden as a must- visit destination for schools across the UK. Sam and her team maintain a focus on high quality teaching and learning across Eden’s programmes. Following a first degree in Natural Science at Jesus College, Cambridge, she qualified as a primary school teacher, with science specialism, in 1997 and worked in schools in Bristol, Cornwall, Karachi and South Africa prior to joining Eden in 2001. In 2021 she completed an MSc in Environment and Human Health.
Programme
09:30-10:00: Arrivals, registration, teas and coffees
Plus a chance to sign up to your afternoon roundtable sessions
10:00-10:20: Welcome Address from the MBC Partnership Board
10:20-10:50: ‘Reimagining how we live well together’- Dr Andy Knox, Associate Medical Director in the Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB and co-founder of the LSC Population Health Leadership Academy
10.50-11:20: Eden Project Morecambe updates and livestream of the biomes from Cornwall! - Sam Kendall, Head of School Learning, Eden Project
11.20-11:40: Coffee break and networking
11:40-12.10: Linking sustainability and place into the curriculum: Panel Discussion between teachers and academics focused on these themes
12:10-13:00: Weaving sustainability and place into your subject specialisms
13:00-14:00: Lunch! (plant-based lunch provided)
14:00-14:50: Delegates can choose from a variety of roundtable discussions and workshop sessions designed to inspire and support your learning
15:00-15:50 Delegates can choose from a variety of roundtable discussions and workshop sessions designed to explore how the day’s learning might inform your future practice
15:50-16:00: Closing remarks and a performance from More Music’s Baybeat Band!
16:00-18:00: Drinks, music and networking at the Northern Oak Bar!
Roundtable Discussion 1: 2:00 pm - 2:50 pm
Expect small workshops, roundtable discussions and resources designed to help you feel inspired. Subjects will include outdoor learning, growing, climate change, the national education nature park, how to engage with blue spaces, nature-based art and more. These sessions will be run by members of the MBC community, local and national organisations. Nearer the time, we will confirm a list of sessions and give guidance on how to sign up on the day.
Roundtable Discussion 2: 3:00 pm - 3:50 pm
A second round of small workshops, discussions and resources designed to support you to think about next steps and how you can take what you have learnt into the classroom. There will be an opportunity to network with colleagues from similiar ages and stages, as well as learn more about outdoor education, the North West Beach School Network and hear updates on the Earnse Bay Hub. These sessions will be run by members of the MBC community, local and national organisations. Nearer the time, we will confirm a list of sessions and give guidance on how to sign up on the day.