In Year Six, our Day for Change journey began right back near the beginning of the Autumn Term when we took part in the WWF Wild Wisdom Global Challenge.
Competing against hundreds of schools from all over the world, our amazing Year Sixes did so well that Front Street Primary School came second on the UK leader board. We also had several students whose individual scores were so high they appeared on the international leader board.
So, what were we doing on the Wild Wisdom Challenge?
The Wild Wisdom Challenge is an international project organised by the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) to promote awareness of global issues linked to climate, our life choices and the health of Planet Earth.
In school, we took part in online activities and completed quizzes which tested our knowledge of climate change, endangered animals and habitat loss.
The second step of our Day for Change journey happened during our Geography lessons.
During our Geography lessons, we learned the difference between Weather and Climate, and we also learned about global climate zones and some of our actions that contribute to climate change.
The next step in our Day for Change journey happened in November when we visited Nissan to take part in an Eco-schools workshop.
Here we learned how designers and manufacturers at Nissan are developing renewable energy to power their cars – and the factory itself.
We brought our own wind turbines prototypes and tested how well they worked.
During the visit, we learned how climate change is harming our planet and we carried out a whole day full of exciting experiments, such as: discovering how combustion engines produce emissions which contain carbon and how the melting of the ice caps is causing sea level rises.
In the Spring term, in PSHE, we have continued even further on our Day for Change journey.
We have looked at how natural disasters have impacted on people’s lives, their homes and how different groups of people try to help in these situations.
And this became the focus of our most recent step in our Day for Change journey.
In D&T, we are currently designing a ‘UNICEF Rover’ a rescue vehicle which can be used to access crisis zones.
Our design brief stated that UNICEF needed a rescue vehicle that was able to move across rough, disaster zone terrain. But our brief also says these vehicles need to be powered using a renewable energy source.
Watch this space for the finished Rescue Rovers…
Our final thought for Day for Change is this…
