Sustainability Climate Action Community

The purpose of this group is to support school leaders to improve attendance and reduce absence in their schools. The support also aims to help with understanding what the research tells us about improving attendance and reducing absence, particularly persistent absence. It is aimed at Senior Leaders working together with Attendance Officers to share the most effective practice.

This community is open to Senior Leaders in charge of attendance and Attendance Officers in Newham Learning member schools and Newham Learning Leads.

To sign up for this Community

Please visit: https://forms.gle/NAaDJVtMomA64qaM9

The meeting dates for 2025-26 are:

• Spring Term – Tuesday 03 Feb 2026, Keir Hardie Primary (with Education Village, Darlington)

• Additional Webinar (free) : Tuesday 10 Feb 12:30 (Global School Alliance - click to register)

• Climate Conference – Tuesday 19 May 2026, Venue TBC

• Sustainability leadership and climate action plans (DfE)

• Sustainability and Climate Change selected reading (CCoT)

• Rethinking Curriculum: Climate change and sustainability education toolkit (CCoT)

• Let's Go Zero

• Eco Schools

• National Education Nature Park

• Climate Education Toolkit (Foundation for Education Development, FED)

• Sustainablity Leadership Scorecard (Alliance for Sustainable Leadership in Education, EAUC)

• Global School Alliance

• Empathy Week

• Global Goals: The World's largest lesson

• Climate change and sustainability education in primary schools (CCoT)

• Tackling climate change through behaviour change and youth action (Global School Alliance, 2025)

• Certificate in Sustainability & Climate Education for Staff (National College)

• Supporting climate action through digital education (L2) - free account required (Open University)

• Climate change course collection - free account required (Open University)

Guidance Documents

• Putting Evidence to Work (Implementation Guidance) (EEF, 2024)

Videos

• A schools' guide to Implementation - Animation (EEF, 2024)

• Newham Learning: Implementation (Newham Learning, 2022)

Templates

• Action plan template (pdf)

• Action plan template (docx)

• Case study template (pdf)

• Case study template (pptx)