Super Stories for Climate Heroes

By E.L. Norry

Delivery ideas for SEND Educators:

Use the storybook to talk about looking after the planet and money in fun and interactive ways:

1. Imagine it!

Ask your children to imagine that they have been asked to speak at a Climate Change Conference about how each person can make a difference to reduce waste and why this is so important for our planet. Ask them to consider why it might also help people to spend less money.

2. Act it out

This chapter book, aimed at more confident readers, includes two short stories where children will join the characters on a journey to learn how to look after the planet and their cash.

Each story will help children to develop valuable skills in financial capability.

They will discover how their spending decisions can help support others, as well as why it’s important to think carefully about how to use money and how it can impact the wider world, for example by having a positive impact on climate change.

Pretending that children will now interview one of the characters in the stories is a playful way to encourage them to ask questions such as, ‘Would you rather have a new t-shirt or do you think you would prefer to upcycle one?’ and ‘Would you rather throw something away which has passed its Best Before date, or eat it anyway?’

3. Time to design

Ask children to bring something in that they no longer need or want. As a group, swap items and ask individuals or groups to design and then upcycle items. Once completed give every child a ‘newly upcycled’ item to take home and wear/use.

Possible adaptations:

• Read to children, rather than them reading along with you.

• Split reading each story and talking about the content into separate sessions.

• Reinforce understanding by reading some of the text and questioning children on what they know so far or what they think might happen next.

• Encourage role-play after reading each section of a story to further embed learning.