Supporting Climate Curriculum in Alternative Provision

Supporting Climate Curriculum in Alternative Provision

Be part of the launch of a globally significant report that redefines how we teach climate change and sustainability in Additional Learning

By Dr. Jennifer Rudd

Date and time

Location

Swansea University Bay Campus

Fabian Way Skewen SA1 8EN United Kingdom

About this event

  • Event lasts 5 hours

Supporting Climate Curriculum in Alternative Provision

This event marks the launch of our new, internationally significant report: Climate Change and Sustainability Education in Additional Learning Needs Settings, funded through a SMART Partnership between Keep Wales Tidy and Swansea University.The pioneering report brings together insights from across 26 ALN settings in Wales and highlights the urgent need for inclusive, engaging, and age-appropriate climate change education in alternative provision. It also outlines practical steps to support educators in developing and delivering this critical content in line with the Curriculum for Wales.

During the event:

  • Dr Jennifer Rudd (Swansea University) and Bryony Bromley (Keep Wales Tidy) will give the background to the project.
  • Shannon O'Connor, Swansea University, will share the report's key findings and case studies from ALN settings across Wales.
  • A panel discussion will be held featuring Gemma Sayce (Ysgol Hendrefelin), and Ceri Metcalfe-Day, (Penyrheol Comprehensive School), focusing on the challenges and opportunities of developing climate change curriculum in ALN settings.
  • Plus other speakers to be confirmed.

Date: 19 September 2025

Location: Swansea University Bay Campus

Don't miss out on this opportunity to make a difference in climate education!

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Dr Rudd has a decade of experience working in chemistry and the technical circular economy, developing next generation solar panels and working on hydrogen generation and carbon capture. Using this knowledge, Dr Rudd developed the You and CO2 programme in 2018, seeking to teach young people about climate mitigation. Since then, she has worked on a number of climate change education programmes across the disciplines, age ranges and countries. She has helped train teachers in Nigeria, co-created a programme for Welsh primary school pupils to learn about fast fashion, co-developed a new scale for measuring climate capability and consulted for a range of third sector and educational institutions on climate change education programmes.

Dr Rudd is a member of the Net Zero by 2035 commission, advising Welsh Government on pathways to Net Zero, she has been invited to present her work in the Senedd and at trade events in London.

Dr Rudd has communicated the climate emergency through national talks, radio and printed media and gave a TEDx talk in 2019. She is regularly invited to give talks on climate change mitigation and climate change education and was nominated for two Swansea University awards in 2020.

FreeSep 19 · 10:00 GMT+1