Further resources:

• Register on the World Ocean Day for Schools website to download free teaching resources and activities designed to encourage young people aged 5-14 to connect to their local blue space and become ocean advocates. There is also a free live-streamed assembly and day of online learning on 6th June.
• Explore Books for Topics’ Oceans and Seas and Under the Sea booklists for books to share with primary aged children.
• Find more recommendations for KS2 pupils in the Oceans and Seas booklist from Best Books for Schools.
• Catch up with author/illustrator Chloe Savage’s online drawing workshop for pupils in Years 1-3 based on her book The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish.
• CLPE has created free teaching and discussion notes for a range of award-winning titles that explore Rivers, Seas and Oceans. The teaching notes are available to download with their free introductory membership.
• Hear a selection of poems on the theme of Seas and Rivers read out loud on the Children’s Poetry Archive and explore the range of resources provided to support the teaching of poetry in primary and secondary classrooms.
• Ensure your pupils can keep up to date with environmental issues by taking out a school subscription to a junior newspaper or nature magazine. Find a selection here.
• Download free curriculum-linked teaching resources from Common Seas to help primary and secondary pupils explore the issue of marine plastic pollution.
• Sign up to become a Plastic Clever School, a school-wide challenge to reduce plastic waste with young people at the heart of the action. Free toolkits and supporting resources available for primary and secondary schools.
• The Marine Conservation Society has created teaching resources for primary schools.
• Find curriculum-linked resources created by the WWF to help primary and secondary pupils explore environmental issues in an engaging and motivating way.