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Climate Rescue
Club at the
Junior School



What we are
doing to
lighten our
carbon footprints 






Miro in the Feast Parade with his Climate Rescue Club T-shirt

The club started with an introductory school assembly – in which pupil volunteers were encouraged to wrap each other in sheets and duvets to explain global warming.

In the first session the children pretended to be aliens who had lost their way in space and wanted to start a new life on planet Earth. The aliens are shocked about man-made climate change and prepare a news presentation in which they explain to the humans how they are destroying their planet.  Kindly enough they offer also a Climate Rescue Plan.

In the second session we thought about the relationship between food and climate change. We showed a short video clip about food in a Kenyan market and talked about the differences between this model and the sourcing, packaging, purchasing, etc. of our daily food. In groups the children made a lunchbox, either one with a low carbon footprint, or one with a high carbon footprint. We brought a selection of local and imported fruit, heavily packaged and unpackaged foods and fresh and processed foods.









 





 
Tree planting at the Junior School




Climate Rescue Club is a lunchtime club at Histon and Impington Junior School designed to raise childrens’ awareness of man-made climate change.  It started in September 2007, with the initial idea coming from a concerned seven year old who had just started his first term at the Junior school.  It is run by Susan Glimmerveen,  Hero Chalmers and David Chandler.

The aim is to find out together with the children which practical steps we can take to make a positive difference to the challenge of man-made climate change – a challenge which will be theirs to tackle in the future.  The club aims to be fun as well as thought-provoking.

Climate Rescue Club 

The third session involved tree planting in the Junior School grounds.  The club plans to continue through the spring and summer terms of 2008 with a particular brief to investigate improving recycling opportunities in the school.

The third and fourth sessions had a Christmas theme. We encouraged the children to think about the relation between global warming and the way we celebrate Christmas. We concentrated on the subjects of presents and decorations. Buying new things means new things have to be produced; producing things means producing CO2. So why not make your own presents or buy second hand ones? Food: local, seasonal, fresh is best and avoid the plastic bag. Christmas tree: best is making a tree from an old branch or get a tree with roots and replant. The children worked hard making posters with ideas about how to reduce our Christmas carbon footprint and they used pictures from old magazines.


In the fourth session the children produced lovely decorations from junk material, like juice cartons, yoghurt pots, milk bottle lids, old pieces of fabric and so on. They were amazingly inventive, e.g. penguins from drinking yoghurt cartons with black and white paper; peg doll angels: bells from egg box bumps wrapped in foil etc. We hung them on our alternative Christmas tree in the school library. We also wrapped presents in newspaper with a nice ribbon. The result is very Christmassy.





Our alternative Christmas tree










































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