The Year 5 and Year 6 Green Team children working with the Whalley Range Climate Action Group to understand how climate change is affecting communities around the world. We looked at the role world leaders have in preventing our world's temperature from rising beyond 1.5 degrees C. We also looked at what each of us can do to- walk to school, buy food grown locally, reduce our use of single-use plastic, support charities that are trying to raise awareness.

We participated in Whalley Range Climate Action Group's Window display campaign to raise awareness about COP26 by creating a display with our school artist Lydia.

Our Green Team children then presented this information to the rest of Year 5 and 6 in an assembly.

We were also visited by Rev Grace Thomas, the Diocean Environment Officer who spoke to the children about climate change and what we could do in our school to help. 

We wrote to our MP Afzal Khan to convince him to take our concerns to Parliament. Mr Khan did a zoom call with the Year 6 children and answered their questions about what the world leaders were doing. 

In English, our Year 6 children wrote persuasive letters to the world leaders to convince them about the urgency to act now. We received a reply from Mr Khan on behalf of the government explaining the actions that were decided at the COP26 in Glasgow. Mr Khan acknowledged our children's learning in his speech in parliament.