Eden Learning
Sandylands Eden Learning is inspired by the Morecambe Bay Curriculum which was set up in 2020 in collaboration with Eden Project North, Lancaster University and Lancaster and Morecambe college.
The Morecambe Bay Curriculum focuses on the health and wellbeing of the ecosystem, and opportunities for future sustainable living, learning and working. It taps into the learning potential of the landscape and life around Morecambe. It is a unique place-based green curriculum for children and young people to learn how to look after themselves, their area and their planet.
This dovetails perfectly with our Sandylands Golden threads which run through all of our ‘Sandylands way’ curriculum.
Below are some examples of what the children have been up to recently.
Pupil Parliament COP26 meeting with our Local and Global ministers
Our Local and Global ministers attended a local 'COP26' style meeting with other schools from the Lancaster and Morecambe area to talk about climate change and the arrival of Eden North. The children had the opportunity to learn about other countries around the world...
Amazing Artwork – Made by the Moon project
Year 6 took inspiration from the beautiful Morecambe bay and the story of Made by the Moon to create their very own interpretations of Morecambe using watercolours.
‘Farm in a box’ with our Eco Ministers
This week, the Eco ministers took part in a national project 'Farm in a box' which looks at food sustainability and security. They are hoping to develop our school grounds to enable children to bring some of the food security principles to our curriculum and...
Where the Wildlings are…
As part of our Eden Learning, Year 6 took part in an exciting project centred around looking in detail at our school grounds and creating sketches based on the following brief... 'If you went home and overnight a magical event happened and everything changed in the...
Made the Moon visit to Sunderland point
Year 5M took part in a series of different workshops, linked to the text Made by the Moon, recently when they visited Sunderland point as part of our work with the Morecambe Bay partnership. In the summer term, as part of the curriculum, the children used the text by...
One child can make a difference…
One child can make a difference... A simple letter to Ms Hickson about the environment and how we use plastics in school has brought about massive change.The School Parliament will be working with our own little eco-warrior in the coming weeks to work on ways to...