“We need nature education at the heart of school life so everyone has access to it, not just middle-class people who go to the countryside at the weekend and have big gardens.
It’s the kids in very urban areas who I had in mind because the whole idea of the GCSE is to make natural history on your doorstep something you are fascinated by.
We have such a crisis in the mental health of our young people and nature is known to be a very healing thing.”
Mary Colwell
It's a great pity if this is seen as 'political' and something that the new Government can't get behind and move to the next phase with. It has the potential to offer something distinctively different from other curriculum offerings.
As Mary says at the end of the piece:
"Nature can’t afford to be a political football. We need future generations to understand or care for the natural world.”
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