Programs · Climate Safe Schools

Climate Safe Schools.

Helping schools build climate literacy, student leadership, and practical environmental action.

Climate Clubs, teacher support, and weekly missions inside schools.

Already enrolled? Schools sign in to the Mission Hub to access weekly missions.

Secondary school students taking part in a CCAIE Climate Safe Schools learning activity
01 · Why Schools

Climate awareness starts where learning does.

Climate change already shapes how communities live, learn, and grow food.

Students who understand it early are better prepared to act on it.

We give schools simple structures to run it: student clubs, teacher guidance, materials.

02 · About

What is Climate Safe Schools?

Climate literacy, teacher support, and student-led clubs that turn learning into local action.

Climate literacy

Student-led clubs

Teacher support

Practical action

03 · Why It Matters

Climate education should be practical, local, and accessible.

Practical

Students learn through doing, clean-ups, planting, debates, and pledges, not just reading.

Local

Activities respond to what's actually happening in students' communities, flooding, heat, waste, water.

Accessible

Materials are simple enough for any school to use, regardless of budget or prior climate exposure.

04 · Objectives

What Climate Safe Schools aims to do.

Establish Climate Clubs

Launch student-led Climate Clubs in selected pilot schools as the structure for ongoing learning and action.

Strengthen climate literacy

Equip students with accurate, age-appropriate knowledge of climate change and its local impacts.

Support teachers

Position teachers as climate literacy champions with guidance, materials, and facilitation tools.

Promote practical action

Encourage simple, achievable climate and environmental activities rooted in the school and community.

Build student leadership

Create space for students to lead, organise, and speak on climate issues that affect them.

Generate evidence to scale

Document learning from the pilot to refine the model and reach more schools over time.

05 · Climate Clubs

What is a Climate Club?

Student-led groups, guided by a teacher, for literacy, awareness, and action.

Student holding a handwritten climate pledge during a Climate Club session

Activities Climate Clubs might run

Climate learning sessions
Environmental awareness campaigns
Waste management activities
School clean-up exercises
Tree planting & gardening
Climate debates, quizzes & storytelling
Poster & art activities
Climate pledge campaigns
Student-led action projects
Simple reporting & documentation
06 · How It Works

From interest to a working Climate Club.

  1. STEP 01

    Express interest

    Schools submit a short expression of interest.

  2. STEP 02

    Review & shortlist

    CCAIE reviews submissions and shortlists participating schools.

  3. STEP 03

    Assign focal teacher

    Each school names a teacher focal person to lead the Club.

  4. STEP 04

    Launch Climate Club

    Students form the Club and begin practical climate activities.

  5. STEP 05

    Share & sustain

    Schools share updates and continue activities beyond the pilot.

07 · What CCAIE May Provide

From CCAIE's side

  • Climate Club Starter Guide
  • Teacher facilitation materials
  • Student activity resources
  • Digital climate literacy materials
  • Orientation sessions
  • School activity templates
  • Reporting tools
  • Visibility for participating schools
  • Limited technical support for Climate Club setup
  • Printed materials where funding allows
08 · What Schools Provide

From the school's side

  • Assign a teacher focal person
  • Support the establishment of a student Climate Club
  • Allow students to participate in approved Climate Club activities
  • Provide basic school leadership support
  • Follow internal school rules and safeguarding requirements
  • Communicate with CCAIE on progress and challenges
  • Share simple updates, photos, or activity reports where appropriate
  • Encourage continuity beyond the pilot phase
09 · The Kit

Climate Safe Schools Kit, practical resources for learning and action.

A growing set of student, teacher, and Club materials designed to be simple, age-appropriate, and ready to use in any participating school.

ABC of Climate Change booklet
Climate Club Starter Guide
Teacher Facilitation Guide
Student Workbook
Climate Action Scrapbook
Classroom Posters
Climate Pledge Cards
Activity Sheets
Climate Quiz Cards
Short Climate Stories
School Climate Action Checklist
Climate Club Reporting Template
10 · Mission Hub

Every week, your school gets a mission.

Weekly missions for students 6–16. Complete. Submit proof. Move on.

African school children in uniforms attentively learning in a classroom

Step 1

Join

Your school is onboarded by CCAIE.

Step 2

Download

Get each week's mission pack.

Step 3

Run

Lead the activity with students.

Step 4

Submit

Upload photos & a short reflection.

Step 5

Earn

Unlock the next badge and mission.

Online: full Mission Hub with photo evidence uploads and badges.
Offline: printable PDFs, WhatsApp image versions, and a phone-or-email submission channel.
10 · Eligibility

Who can participate?

Eligible schools and representatives include:

  • Teachers
  • Principals
  • Vice principals
  • School administrators
  • Club coordinators
  • Authorized school representatives

Schools that previously participated in CCAIE teacher training programmes are especially encouraged to express interest.

11 · Pilot Phase

A focused first phase.

We're testing with a pilot cohort. Their experience shapes how we scale.

12 · Expression of Interest

Express your school's interest.

Is your school interested in establishing a Climate Club?

We're taking EOIs for the pilot. Submitting doesn't confirm selection — we review and reply.

13 · Related program

Also for young people: Rising Voices.

Children taking part in a CCAIE Rising Voices summer program activity

Rising Voices — CCAIE's summer program for children 6–16. Editions 1.0 (Art for Heat), 2.0 (Waste Reimagined), 3.0 (Think, Build, Protect).

Two programs, same youth-first approach. Clubs can send students to Rising Voices.

Explore Rising Voices
14 · Partners & Donors

Support Climate Safe Schools.

Fund Club kits, teacher training, or a full cohort. Every contribution lands in a classroom.

Sponsor a school cohort

Fund Climate Club kits

Support teacher orientation

Co-design with CCAIE