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.
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!
Get involvedResources 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.
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.
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Lancaster University
University of Cumbria
Archbishop Huttons Primary School, Warton
Bay Leadership Academy
Beaumont College
Bolton-le-Sands primary
Carnforth High School
Cartmel Priory C of E School
Carter's Charity Primary School
Caton St Paul's CE Primary School
Cawthorne's Endowed School
Central Lancaster High School
Cumbria Development Education Centre
Cockerham CE Primary School
Dallam School
Furness College
Greengate Junior School
Great Wood School
Grosvenor Park Primary School
Larches High School
Lancaster and Morecambe College
Lancaster Girls' Grammar School
Lancaster Royal Grammar School
Little Chatters
Milnthorpe Primary School
Moorside Primary School
Morecambe Bay Academy
Morecambe Bay Community Primary School
Morecambe Road School
Myerscough College
Newbridge House PRS
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
Scotforth St Paul's CE Primary and Nursery School
Secret Garden Learning
Sky Primary and Eden Project Nursery
South Cumbria PRS
South Lakes Federation
South Walney Infants School
St Mark's CofE School
St Mary's Catholic Primary School
St Paul’s School, Barrow
St Oswald's CE School
Stramongate School
Thurnham Glasson C of E Primary School
Ulverston Victoria High School
Victoria Infant and Nursery School, Barrow in Furness
Walney Secondary School
West End Primary
Westgate Primary School
Willow Lane CP School
Wilson's Endowed Primary
Witherslack Group Ltd
Yealand Church of England Primary School
Abi Mill's Childminding
Ascentis
Bay Medical Group
Cumbria LEP
The Ernest Cook Trust
EDGE Foundation
Global Link
Inspira
Lancaster City Council
Lancaster & District CVS
Lancaster & District Chamber of Commerce
Lancs Fire & Rescue Service
Lancaster BID
Lancashire County Council
Lancashire LEP & Skills Hub
LESS UK
Morecambe Bay Partnership
National Education Nature Park - RHS
UMBEL Restaurant Group
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Eden Project Morecambe
The Morecambe Bay Curriculum is recognised and supported by the Eden Project Morecambe.
Eden Project Morecambe