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Schools and parents across Liverpool City Region can breathe easy with free air-quality education funded by Metro Mayor’s Community Environment Fund
Young children across Liverpool City Region will be taught the value of good air quality in their communities after being granted unlimited access to a free learning platform.
Teachers, parents and primary school pupils can now enjoy the subscription-only channels of the interactive website Clean Air Crew, thanks to Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram’s Community Environment Fund.
The engaging online materials have been designed and developed by teachers and environmental officers from the Southport Eco Centre around one of the city region’s key environmental and health policies.
Pictured: Steve Rotheram with children at one of a series of wildflower meadows acrosss the Liverpool City Region funded through the £500,000 Community Environment Fund
The aim is help everyone understand how they can help improve air quality, providing an innovative platform for teachers to embed sustainability into topic planning.
Steve Rotheram, Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, said:
Children can enjoy the fun, interactive resources and games, teachers can access a wide range of topic-based curriculum resources and parents will be able to use home learning materials.
Schools have until 30 September to sign up at www.cleanaircrew.co.uk.
Access to the subscription education resources will continue until April 2022 and many of the sites other features will remain public beyond this date as a legacy.
Cllr Paulette Lappin, Cabinet Member for Regulatory, Compliance and Corporate Services said:
The Liverpool City Region was the first Combined Authority to declare a Climate Emergency and is aiming to become net zero carbon by 2040 at the lastest, at least a decade before national targets.
It is making progress on a wide range of environmental projects, as part of Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram’s pledge to lead a Green Industrial Revolution, and will be highlighting its work at COP26, the 2021 United Nations climate change conference in Glasgow this Autumn.
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