What can we learn by listening to other species? (Key Stage 2-3)

Overall Aim: To generate tricky questions, to work together to explore them, to consider if, why and how we should care for our planet

Some of the tricky questions pupils will engage with:

• Why are other species important?
• What can other species contribute to the ecological debate?
• How can we work to restore nature?

Topics pupils engage with: 

• The Sycamore Gap tree. Exploring how important this act is, and what action could be taken.
• Learning about elephants as ecological gardeners, and how animals, such as chimpanzees, work with humans.
• Exploring the question of what we share with other species and how we differ, drawing on the insights of Jane Goodall
• Considering the guidance the Bible provides regarding the natural world, looking at different interpretations of key texts
• Asking what can we do to restore nature and the idea of an ecologically focussed Shabbat/Sabbath