The following County Durham Schools have been learning about climate change and what they can do to combat it.
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Cleves Cross Primary School
Children from Cleves Cross Primary School found the science behind climate change fascinating and are keen to try and save our planet as best they can. They created green screen films which covered the topics of; Habitat Loss, Hurricanes, Melting Ice and Wildfires. These videos have been shown to the school and the children’s parents and were very well received by all.
Crook Primary School
Pupils in Class 6O benefited from OASES’ Climate Change sessions, as the second school in the pilot. They were the first group to try the fantastic ‘Ice Flows’ game, which uses models from real-life glaciers to show how an increase in temperature and decreases in precipitation affects glaciers. The app was very well received with many of the children downloading it for themselves at home. This prompted a couple of groups to cover melting ice in their green screen videos. The other topics covered included: Coral bleaching; wildfires and hurricanes. They delivered an informative assembly to the rest of KS2 and their parents.
Cockfield Primary School
Cockfield Primary School have been passionately working towards combating climate change after their sessions with OASES. They learned about the problems that our planet is facing and chose to make green screen films about the following issues: Rising Sea Levels, Hurricanes, Wildfires, Coral Bleaching, Droughts and Flooding. They showcased the films to the school and their parents, who are going to help to slow down the effects of climate change.
Esh Winning Primary School
Year 5 pupils at Esh Winning Primary School were involved in the first set of pilot sessions for the project. They learned all about the science behind climate change, had the chance to do their own research and then created a script, which they then acted out. They used special effects and backgrounds to make videos about some of the consequences of climate change, such as: melting ice, the plight of the polar bears, coral beaching, sea level rise and wildfires. Pupils had an extra challenge when creating their videos as their school uniform matched the colour of the green screen, meaning they had to work in front of a blue screen instead. However, they were successfully put together and showcased at a whole school assembly.
Ribbon Academy
Miss Duke’s Year 6 class enjoyed learning about climate change and had an interesting debate on whether climate change was real after researching different opinions on the matter. Many children confessed to finding it difficult to debate that climate change was not happening when they themselves thought it was. Whilst the ‘denying’ team put up a plausible case, the debate was won by the team who thought climate change was real and wanted to do something about it. Their green screen videos reflected the outcome of the debate. They created and edited videos on the following topics: Sea Level Rise; Paradise wildfires; Walking to School; Flooding and Coral Bleaching.
Timothy Hackworth Primary School
OASES worked with Mrs Churchill’s Year 5 class to educate children on the threats we face from Climate Change. They took on their own research to find out more information about the science behind climate change and how climate change could affect them in the future. They were alarmed to see how much of Britain would be under water if all of the ice melted. In their groups, they then made green screen films on the following topics: melting ice, coral bleaching, wildfires, flooding and how higher temperatures are affecting our polar bears.
St Cuthbert’s Primary School, Seaham
Year 5 at St. Cuthbert’s Primary School in Seaham have worked with OASES to share all their climate change knowledge with their parents and carers and the rest of the school. They created wonderful green screen films on hurricanes, wildfires, coral bleaching and melting ice and made a difference in their school grounds by planting lots of trees. They had a look at how climate change is affecting different countries, showing us how our actions affect others across the world.
New Brancepeth Primary School
Miss Plummer’s class at New Brancepeth Primary School have made wonderful pieces of drama using greenscreen technology. They’ve looked at wildfires, melting ice in the Arctic and even explored how Harry Potter would fare in a hurricane. They have then had a look at the effect of climate change on the UK wildlife both above water and underwater.
They have linked the project to their geography topic looking at deforestation, and have planted trees to help make a real difference to climate change and the habitats in their area.
Rosa Street Primary School
The Year 4 class at the school worked hard on the C4CC? project, the topic of climate change being for many a new and unfamiliar subject area to cover. The children were particularly impacted when learning about the consequences of melting glaciers and ice sheets that can be felt around the world. The children thoroughly enjoyed making vox-pop videos to air their thoughts and opinions and were more than able to draw on their acting skills to demonstrate real life scenarios through the use of green screen technology to great news bulletin style video clips.
Timothy Hackwork Primary School
Miss Westgarth’s Year 5 class revelled in the opportunity to discuss their thoughts on Climate Change and were particularly keen on the activities that involved role play, debating real life scenarios and putting together thought provoking, simulation videos to highlight the impact across the globe. Many of the children have been inspired to research further into this hugely relevant and important field of study.
Thornhill Primary
OASES worked with Y6, who were very engaged in learning more about climate change and how they can do their bit to help. They made some fantastic greenscreen videos creating news reports and dramas that covered; flooding, wildfires, coral bleaching and melting ice.
They have since planted trees in their school grounds to make an active effort in combatting climate change and are working alongside the whole school to make sustainable choices going forward.
Lanchester EP Primary School
Class 5PT were very excited to create their greenscreen videos all about climate change using the knowledge they had learnt from their previous lessons with OASES, where they had learnt what climate change was and the impacts of climate change globally. They used their creativity and acting skills to make informative and engaging videos on coral bleaching, hurricanes, sea level rises, melting ice and wildfires. The videos were well received, and the class are looking to do their bit to help stop climate change by planting trees and helping raise awareness within their community.
Chester-Le-Street CE Primary
Children from Class 5M learnt all about climate change and how it is affecting people here in the UK and across the world. They carried out their own research to create greenscreen videos based around wildfires and flooding. These videos were shared and were well received.
They were keen to do their bit to help their local environment and have since taken part in a litter pick and created habitats for local wildlife. They are now working with their school community to make their school more climate friendly.
St Cuthbert’s RC Primary School, Crook
OASES worked with Mr Bellamy’s Class 4 to learn more about the causes of climate change and the climate crisis’s impact on the planet alongside completing the John Muir Award.
Class 4 produced some creative and informative videos about the causes and effects of climate change and premiered them to the rest of the school and parents in an assembly. The class came away from the sessions with an enriched appreciation for conserving our planet.
Langley Moor Primary School
OASES worked with Ms Wilson and Class 5 on the C4CC? project alongside completing the John Muir Award. During the sessions, class 5 learnt about the importance of conservation and the impacts of climate change on our planet today. In addition to planting trees in their school grounds, Class 5 produced some fantastic videos illustrating what they learnt about climate change during the project, which they premiered to the parents in an assembly to share their achievements.
Hamsterley Primary School
OASES worked with Mr Hassan and Class 2 to learn about the threats of climate change, and possible solutions to the climate crisis. After learning about climate change and its impacts, Class 2 were even more excited to plant over 50 trees in their school grounds to help the environment not only locally, but globally too.
In addition, Class 2 produced some wonderful videos with the help of a greenscreen to help educate the wider school community on climate change and the urgent need to stop burning fossil fuels.
Edmondsley Primary School
Working with OASES, Year 5 and 6 pupils at Edmondsley Primary School increased their climate change literacy with interactive classroom learning. The children investigated case studies of some of the effects of climate change and, in groups, chose a topic they were passionate about to make a video using a greenscreen; hurricanes, wildfires and melting glaciers were the favoured topics. The children thoroughly enjoyed creating their own news reports and dramas and considering how props and costume would add to the story. The use of humour in their videos grabbed the attention of their audience during their share assembly with the school and their families. The children hope that their project will inspire their school community to make informed decisions of how they can help slow down the effects of climate change through the way they live.
Moorside Primary Academy
The pupils in year 5 at Moorside Primary Academy learnt new concepts surrounding the topic of climate change with OASES. They developed their understanding of how weather patterns can change and explored new concepts to them such as coral bleaching. To share their learning with the rest of their school, the children created videos using a green screen. Wildfires, melting land ice and flooding were the chosen topics for this class. Some groups based their videos on news reports they had seen that had moved them.
Shotton Primary School
Shotton Primary School’s Year 5 class have been working hard to understand how they can help in the fight against Climate Change. They will discover all the problems facing our planet by doing their own research on: Wildfires, Droughts, Flooding and Sea Level Rise among others. From this, the children have created films centred around the subject, using green screen technology. The pupils have explored a local wild place and their school grounds. To reduce the effects of climate change, they have planted 15 native trees in their school grounds.
St Michael’s C of E Primary, Bishop Middleham
The pupils of St Michael’s C of E Primary School in Bishop Middleham, have become Climate Detectives, researching the science behind climate change, and finding out who is the culprit. They wrote, directed and starred in their own greenscreen videos about the effects of climate change and have shared these with each other, friends and family to spread the message. The pupils have worked to reduce the school’s contribution to climate change by planting 8 trees.
