Stephen Metcalfe, MP for South Basildon & East Thurrock, recently visited Stanford-le-Hope Primary School to see the Glastonbury banner that their Year Six students have created on global warming.
Year Six students at Stanford-le-Hope Primary School have just completed a banner on global warming which they will send to Worthy Farm in Somerset for the Glastonbury Festival. Each student designed their own section of the banner, urging people to ‘make the earth cool again’ and ‘protect mother nature.’
Stephen heard from Shaun Childs, Chair of the Governors, and Miss Morris on how the children have been learning about the impact of climate change on the UK and the world. From hotter classrooms to the negative effects of air pollution on our health – global warming is impacting us all.
The banner is a substantial 5m x 3m and will be displayed around the famous Park Stage at Glastonbury – hopefully large enough to see on TV!
In the meantime, we can rest assured that progress is being made to combat global warming. In the UK, carbon dioxide emissions have decreased by over 30% since 2010 and the proportion of electricity generated by renewables has increased from 9.5% in 2010 to 40% in 2022. In fact, the UK’s offshore wind capacity is now the second biggest in the world. On top of this, millions of trees have been planted in the last decade in England – over 3 million to commemorate the late Queen Elizabeth II as part of the Queen’s Green Canopy. On the international stage, progress is also being made. At COP26 in Glasgow, over 90% of world’s GDP committed to the UK’s target of Net Zero Emissions by 2050.
Stephen Metcalfe said: “A big thank you to Stanford-le-Hope Primary School for inviting me to see their Glastonbury banner. Well done to Year Six – they have done a fantastic job to highlight the work that still needs to be done on climate change. We’re getting there but we have further to go.”
