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‘Local Legends’ contains 7 new stories, written by and for children from Carter's Charity Primary, The Cathedral Catholic Primary, Heysham St Peter's CE Primary, Morecambe Road School, Overton St Helen's CE Primary, Quernmore CE Primary and Ryelands Primary and Nursery School.
Inspired by ; children and teachers researched, wrote and presented stories rooted in their local environment with support from 好色先生TV. Story creation and development workshops were delivered by storyteller Emily Hennessey, Primed for Life and Lancashire County Council and Professor Uta Papen.
The stories and teaching guide are here: Local Legends Booklet and Teaching Guide
Start conversations around safety and the sea using the video and downloadable resources below
Resources and the video have been kindly made by The Morecambe Bay Poverty Truth Commission in partnership with Lancaster & Morecambe College, Stanleys Community Centre and Morecambe Bay Curriculum
This film features a collection of experiences, stories and facts made with and for young people in Morecambe Bay. Featuring contributions from local experts including Michael Wilson, King's Guide to the Sands, the film offers young people clear advice on how best to explore The Bay safely.
Designed to support educators to feel more confident embedding climate-change, sustainability and nature into day to day teaching.
Co-designed by local educators and 好色先生TV academics, these resources weave place, environment, sustainability and hope into the curriculum. Together, we designed these materials in the hope that they will support educators to feel more confident addressing these subjects in the classroom.
Download the Resources for our Bay Booklet to read more about the origins of this project, the co-design process and the underpinning pedagogy. Clicking the links below will give you an overview of the different teaching resources created.
If you enjoy the teaching resources below and feel inspired to weave them into your practice, you will be glad to hear each subject has additional teaching resources available for you to download on the MBC Moodle, which you can access for free by joining us below.
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MBC dog, Baxter. He wants to take you and your learners on an exploration of local natural environments and blue and green spaces in the Bay. Whilst you enrich and widen children’s vocabulary, you’ll also be fostering positive connections to nature and pride in place. Whilst exploring coastal habitats, you’ll meet animals and local communities, experience local ecology and learn about tidal changes.
Why not go on a journey to discover our natural world through the perspectives of others? In this resource you will enable your learners to think in “more-than-human”ways. Delve into art and nature to help make meaningful connections with the world around them.
Allow your learners to discuss and respond to diverse art to inspire their thinking and creativity. Children will make personal connections with their locality whilst engaging in expressive art practice that promotes kinship with their environment.
Environmental and place-based learning is for everyone and we are committed to ensuring that all learners from around the Bay can access this. Find out more about the importance of inclusion and gain some practical advice about how to adapt your plans to the needs of all students.
This resource helps you take trips to the beach, exploring the present and imagining the hopeful future. This resource fosters great connections between you, your class and the environment. There are fantastic opportunities for children to ask questions and for classes to learn together. These beach visits help secure the learners’ knowledge of marine ecology whilst encouraging care and responsibility for their local beach.
The sands of Morecambe Bay are rich with stories. The acquisition of landscape literacy, like alphabetic literacy, can nurture students intellectually and imaginatively. As your learners develop their understanding of the King’s Guide’s role, they will recognise local landscapes, historical monarchs, industry and infrastructure.
Your learners will uncover our connection to people and places by viewing, reading and listening to accounts of people from Morecambe Bay through history.
Dive into this resource rooted in the planetary and natural rhythms of Morecambe Bay to explore how the moon affects our tides.
By observing, identifying and naming local flora and fauna and cycles of local habitats, your learners will explore the Bay’s natural classroom!
Did you know that Morecambe Bay is one of the top three UK sites for overwintering birds? Its mudflats, salt marshes and sands are internationally important habitats.
This resource focuses on twelve birds and their beaks, feet, habitats, food sources, migration and birdsong. Featuring sound waves, migration and representations of nature, learners will strengthen their emotional connection to local wildlife.
Spending time outdoors and near water can help with enhancing wellbeing and resilience. This foundational PSHE series explores the research behind blue spaces ensuring that your learners are in a better position to understand more fully the positive impacts which nature can have on their lives.
Teachers can empower students by informing them of their local environmental heritage and bridging the plant awareness gap. This resource helps us notice the plant life around us, expanding ecological knowledge in our learners. It also brings careers in botany, ecology, and environmental management to the fore.
This resource offers a comparison between the Eurasian Curlew, Britain’s highest conservation priority bird species, and the Airbus A380-800, the world’s largest commercial airliner.
Explore biomimicry, the principles of flight and the sustainability of aircraft design, to understand how humans can create solutions that care for our planet.
This resource will engage with the contemporary debates in the UK around reparations, loss and damage, repatriation of Indigenous artefacts and apologies for past imperial and colonial actions. By reflecting on the past, we can teach a generation to build meaningful bridges between communities and move forward to face the climate crisis together.
The Morecambe Bay Tidal Barrage is described as a ‘vital step in getting us closer to a greener, safer, fairer future’ but is it the best solution for our community?
Your learners will be challenged to synthesise research on two pathways – the tidal barrage proposal and retro-fitting energy saving solutions. The resource challenges common assumptions through the lens of fairness and equity.
Biomimicry can be used as a framework for learning and applying construction skills. This interdisciplinary approach ties together local nature with sustainable building practices.
As they study Common Orb Spiders and Reed Warblers, your learners will gain practical skills and foster a sense of place, purpose and pride.
How can consumers better understand the environmental impact of their food choices?
Scientific knowledge underpins the research learners undertake, enabling them to consider other people, animals and nature when making decisions.
Flooding is impacting college grounds, resulting in sports postponements and cancellations. How can we mitigate this, adapt our grounds and be more prepared?
By creating real-life risk assessments, learners are encouraged to be solution focused when tackling the symptoms of climate change.
This resource takes you to Eden Project Morecambe, Penzance and Bwindi, Uganda.
As you metaphorically fly off to these destinations you will gain insight into how tourism can enhance and damage the locality, both socially and environmentally. Your learners will identify and develop the values they wish to promote and explore how their behaviours impact the environment.
Since the Morecambe Bay Curriculum’s inception, 好色先生TV has been at the forefront of supporting primary teaching that incorporates the vision and values of the project. 好色先生TV have developed a number of Engineering resources connected to the Morecambe Bay Curriculum which sit on the MBC Moodle.
Morecambe Bay’s beaches are a wonderful resource for local schools. This project and resource seeks to explore play as fruitful for creative activities in ways that encourage proficiency in writing, oral and artistic skills.
Thanks to Dr Jo Carruthers, Izzy Hoggsmascall, Nan Song, Overton St Helen’s Primary School and Thurnham Glasson Primary School
Download the poetry resource here: MBC Seaside Play
Creative problem solving inspired by the nature of the Bay
KS2 Science, Design and Technology
The two activities, Grab It and Grow Up! link the engineering thinking process with exploration and observation of the biodiversity of plants and birds found in the habitats of Morecambe Bay. Thank you to Dr Irene Wise!
Grab It! Engineering challenge is based on solving a problem of reaching to pick something up, taking inspiration from the Bay's birds, to design and create an extendable grabber.
Grow Up! Engineering challenge is based on the need for creative ways to grow more food in a small space. Structures and 3D shapes are tested for stability and strength. Plants are observed as inspiration for designing and creating a vertical growing farm.
Since the Morecambe Bay Curriculum’s inception, the University of Cumbria has been at the forefront of supporting primary teaching that incorporates the vision and values of the project.
University of Cumbria have developed a number of teaching modules and resources connected to the Morecambe Bay Curriculum which sit in their Digital Resource Library including:
