“I recently had the opportunity to attend the Annual Schools Eco Conference along with nine other Waldegrave students from the Eco Committee. This year, the conference was held at Holy Cross School in New Malden. The first speaker was Elliot Newton, the Kingston Biodiversity Officer who spoke about what we can do in our schools to help encourage wildlife. He inspired our future plans to plant wildflowers at school, make bird houses as a DT project and create dead wood structures for many insects including stag beetles. Afterwards, we heard from Angela Munden from Greenpeace who told us about food production, wrapping and waste. She encouraged us to eat less meat (95% of chicken is industrial meat), talked about food packaging alternatives and inspired us to help stop food waste (30% of food is wasted) in the canteen. At lunchtime we played a range of fun, environment related games including eco snakes and ladders and higher or lower which taught us facts about pollution and green issues. Everyone who played them received a cardboard pen for participation. The final speakers of the day talked about climate change and environmental justice. They showed us that the countries producing the most CO2 are the countries which are least affected by climate change and vice versa. Some of the teachers also played a game which showed equality, inequality, equity and justice. The day was packed with fun, exciting and educational activities which we all enjoyed.”
ECO CLIMATE CONFERENCE
~ Amelie M, 7FLE
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