KEVICC Courier Spring

Devon Parents Climate and Biodiversity Action Above: Students were so excited to be making connections and sharing ideas. On Saturday 1st February, more than 60 students from 19 schools from Devon gathered in Totnes to talk about climate emergency. We were 5 students from KEVICC to attend this event. The goal of this meeting was to help the students concerned about environment to share their feelings and their ideas with others. We did games and workshops to show the relationship between all the elements of our environment. For example how our health is related to the nature’s. We also highlighted the ripple effects of our behaviours on the climate change. We talked about what we can improve in our schools in order to pollute less and to sensitize the students. Could we begin, for example, to reduce our single use of plastic products? By Lou Vigneron While the rest of the world were on their screens and x-boxes, we went to see what a climate conference for students would look like. Happily (for our world) we found that it was an opportunity to spend time planning ways to help this world, our world. At first, everyone was made to write on a piece of paper what we think we must act on now (I put "to save energy we must get rid of open door fridges in supermarkets" and many other things like that). The whole thing mostly went on with us telling each other about what should we do and what we are doing. Of course, there was also time for lots of talking with others, announcing our plans for the future and (not) healthy snacks. At the end we all sat in our school groups and decided on a plan of action, which was "to raise more funds and try and grow more of our own veg for the canteen". Looking back at this, I found that this was a really good time for me and my group to talk about the plans for the future, our future. By Jack De-vere Above : Jude Allen from Oceans of Learning, talking about how worrying is just another form of caring. We need to look after and care for the world around us in the same way that we care for our bodies. If we eat junk and don't clean our teeth, we will get spots and our teeth will decay - it's the same with the planet. The Climate Hub Event took place on Saturday 1st February 2020 - at The Grove School, Totnes - and was organised by DPCBA: Devon parents for climate and biodiversity action in schools). Jude Allen also came into KEVICC to run a series of Climate Emergency workshops on Friday 14 February, as part of the national school action day.