Students go green

Sarah Amin, Marhaba Rani Hanif and Anam Hussain

Students from Wardle high school have organised and taken part in Go Green Week.

The week aimed to create awareness of climate change, encourage students to launch ‘Going Greener’ projects for themselves and reflect upon how others could benefit from their efforts.

Wardle High School’s Green Week began with a Meat Free Monday, with the aim of raising awareness of the effects of animal methane and global warming. Students were provided with meat free alternatives for their lunch.

Students were also encouraged to ‘Come Veg With Me’ and asked to bring in a potato so that they could be planted.

Other activities included Travel Light Tuesday, which encouraged the use of public transport, walking and car shares and a bun sale.

Wednesday was ‘Zero Waste Wednesday’, during which there was an inter-school competition for which House could collect the most paper to recycle.

‘Switch Off Thursday’ also meant that each department had to try to reduce their energy usage.

Throughout the week, students were also asked to donate 10 aluminium cans and those who did were rewarded by watching a film at the ‘Cans Film Festival’ in school.

On the Friday, students were granted a non-uniform day, with the promise that they would wear a green item of clothing and donate £1.

This event raised £842, which will be donated to the charity supporting Vibeke Kristensen-White, a former student, who has volunteered to go to India to work with partially sighted children.

The week was organised by students, Samatha Roberts, Sadia Ul-Haq, Sarah Amin, Anam Hussain, Marhaba Rani Hanif and Amy Donegan.
Marhaba Rani Hanif said: “The week has been very successful. We have made a huge change in school and also to the environment. We are all very proud and happy to introduce Go Green Week to our school.”

Headteacher Dr Graham Wright added: “I’ve been overwhelmed by the success of the week. The event was led and spearheaded by a group of dedicated students who were able to use their social networking skills to mobilise the school and produce an event that exceeded our expectations. 

"The week has not only raised awareness of our need to recycle, but the results of our efforts will result in us being able to redistribute resources to support several charities including those working with less fortunate young people on the Indian sub-continent.”