Fearnhill students attend Climate Assembly
A group of Fearnhill students travelled north to King Edward VII School, Sheffield, to attend this year’s School Climate Assembly.
10 GCSE students set off from a soggy Letchworth at 8am to travel up to Sheffield to help us in our continued battle against climate change.
This year’s focus was very much around the galvanising of the students to take action and protest to increase the volume of concern but also to demand action on change and to hold people to account on the promises they have made to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases.
The first workshop was led by Scarlett Westbrook. She is the youngest regular policy writer in Parliamentary history. Her work gets climate and concerns into schools curriculums.
Lunch was carbon zero food, which we ate whilst watching the documentary film Overheated. We remained in the giant marquee for the Keynote speech by Chris Packham, famous TV presenter, broadcaster and campaigner. Chris delivered a fantastic speech to the young adults in the marquee and a feeling of optimism and a chance of change was evident in the air.
The last workshop for us was Sustainable Schools. Our students worked well with a number of other students to brainstorm ways of improving the sustainability of schools in the UK. Just in England, school grounds cover an area twice the size of Birmingham.
We left the conference buzzing with lots of new ideas and ready to campaign to help reduce the impact of climate change by limiting the warming to 1.5C and to ensure that we hold the politicians, TNCs and world leaders accountable.
Mr Fowler
