A BEARY GOOD IDEA!
THE Government has announced that by 2025, schools in the UK will start teaching a new natural history GCSE. Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi shared the news at a big event at the Natural History Museum in London, alongside adventurer Bear Grylls. Maya, a presenter from our Sky Kids partner show FYI, went to the event, and quizzed the grown-ups on just why the announcement was important, and what else needs to be done to stop the climate crisis. Here’s a sneak peek of the interview.
Maya: What is your biggest fear when it comes to climate change?
Bear: The pace – can we do enough, can we change, has the damage gone on for too long? And the thing is, the more clever people I listen to, the more I realise, actually, it’s not too late. There’s a lot of anxiety and despair about climate change, but those emotions don’t always help us, and I don’t want any young person to feel despair. There’s no need for that despair yet – we can do something, we are doing something. I know sometimes at the government level it feels slow, but change is happening and, all around the world – I see it with the 57 million scouts – young people saying: “Come on!” And if we act now, it will be OK.
Maya: Why has it taken so long for climate change to be taught as an official subject?
Nadhim: We have, for a number of years now, taught climate
change in geography, in citizenship, in STEM subjects. After six months in the job, I wanted to go further, so we wanted a natural history GCSE to be taught.
Check out more from the interview at first.news/schfyi