Grow Your Teaching: RBG Kew launches new resource for teachers to help close the green careers gap - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- Free, purpose-built online hub designed to empower teachers around subjects of plant and environmental science
- Practical response to 2025 review which found minimal climate education provision in the national curriculum
- Showcases real-world Kew research projects, including the newly opened Carbon Garden
- Funded by the People’s Postcode Lottery
- Openly accessible from today via endeavour.kew.org/grow-your-teaching
From today (19 January 2026), the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is proud to support improved climate education in schools with the launch of a new bespoke online hub, Grow Your Teaching. This free-to-access resource is targeted at UK teachers and explores how plants and fungi can be used to introduce climate education across a range of different subjects. It aims to inspire young people, tackle the green skills gap and build a talent pipeline to address future environmental challenges.
Grow Your Teaching has been created in response to the review of the 2025 curriculum which found the current national curriculum offers minimal climate education to pupils in schools. Recent research from the British Science Association also found that secondary school pupils feel a heightened sense of climate anxiety because of the way climate change is taught, with undue emphasis on its devastating impacts rather than on presenting practical, hopeful and accessible real-world solutions. UCL’s Centre of Climate Change and Sustainability Education has also found that there are significant gaps in professional development opportunities for teachers regarding climate education - a gap which Grow Your Teaching has been designed to address.