Since January, we’ve been working closely with the amazing King’s Group Academies and their international partners as we begin piloting Air We Breathe in real classroom settings.
Ten schools across the south of England — together with their partner schools worldwide — are starting to weave activities from the programme into their curriculum. These early steps are helping us understand how the resources land in both primary and secondary classrooms, and how the programme can continue to evolve.
As part of this developing pilot, each school has received an air‑quality monitor from global specialists IQAir. These monitors are already sparking collaboration across the network, with schools beginning to share their data and explore how air quality differs around the world. This shared dataset will grow over time, forming the backbone of a long‑term, international comparison project.
At the centre of all this is the Air We Breathe learning programme — the framework that gives purpose and context to the monitoring work. It supports students in asking the “why” behind air quality: why it matters around their school, why it varies globally, and why understanding it can drive real change. And as the project develops, we’ll be learning right alongside them.
King’s Group Academies is delighted to participate in the Air We Breathe
programme. As a trust that places a high value on global learning and connections,
we jumped at the opportunity to use EarthMuseum Learn as a bridge between our
UK academies and our partner schools overseas.
The project’s strength lies in its high quality learning resources and the ability to link
classrooms across borders. It provides a framework for our students to work
directly with their international peers, investigating shared environmental questions
through hands-on projects and real-time data. This isn’t just learning about a
problem; it’s experiencing it from multiple perspectives, together.
(Louisa Perkins, International Director for King’s Group Academies)