Earth’s Nurture Hub
Investment project code: 20
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Earth’s Nurture Hub will bring meaningful learning, all about climate change and nature, to children and young people who find mainstream education challenging. We will work with four School Nurture Hubs from disadvantaged catchments in Edinburgh. Our aim is to improve understanding about key climate topics and create practical green projects with each group within their own community spaces.
Our specialist Community Learning Team will work with four school Nurture Hubs across Edinburgh to create a bespoke educational project: Craigmount High, Currie Primary, Castlebrae High, Broomhouse Primary (via The BIG Project charity).
Topics and activities will be chosen by the groups, all relating to Climate Change, Nature and Sustainability. We will explore the subjects and encourage learning in a fun, exciting and accessible way. We typically include games, samples, hands-on experiments, practical ‘task-master’ style activities and storytelling (for younger children).
As part of the programme, the group will decide on their own practical ‘greening’ activity to help improve a local space (at their school, a beach or local green space). This might be trees or planters, bird or bat boxes, bee hotels, wildlife monitoring, beach cleans or poster campaigns, for example. By choosing their own project, we aim for individuals to feel a sense of ownership and pride about improving their own spaces and become green leaders in their communities.
“They feel more confident with science and that they didn’t realise that it could be so interesting. They successfully navigated situations that they would usually find quite daunting.” – group leader from pilot session
Location: Dynamic Earth and partner school nurture hubs
Proposed on behalf of: Dynamic Earth is a charity dedicated to empowering people with understanding and empathy for the Earth. Our dedicated Community Learning Programme delivers free tailored learning for groups facing disadvantage - to advance science learning and develop confident, successful learners. We help to remove barriers to engaging with science; and create social and wellbeing benefits through opportunities to interact meaningfully with others. Long-standing relationships with groups include young carers, school nurture hubs, youth groups, resettled refugee families and disability support groups, amongst many others.
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