PUPILS at St Luke’s Infants in Headless Cross are joining the global Youth Strike 4 Climate protest this Friday, May 24.
The youngsters will be marching out onto the playground on Friday afternoon to get the message across to parents, carers and passersby that more must be done to prevent climate change.
“They children are really fired up over the changes that need to be made,” said Year 1 teacher Grace Rogerson.
“We went to Dudley Zoo on a school trip and we were all alarmed at the number of animals which were on the endangered species list.
“These children are the ones who are going to have to cope with world we live in and they want to make a change.”
Youth Strike 4 Climate is a global movement in response to a UN report in 2018 which said mankind had just 12 years for global warming to be held at a maximum of 1.5 degrees C beyond which there was a significant risk of worse droughts, floods and heatwaves sparking widespread poverty and population movement.
St Luke’s, like most schools in Redditch, has a notorious school run congestion problem and pupils are hoping their protest, on the eve of half term, will help people think twice before taking the car.
The school leads by example with headteacher Elaine Pemberton regularly cycling to work.
“We need to get the adults on board, we want to take the message further to make parents realise that we are seriously and hopefully people will stop and think and our action will have a ripple effect which will spread out and reach more people,” said Ms Rogerson.
