Today I attended a Youth Climate change summit for Bath & North East Somerset. I saw some speakers and met some interesting people, sat on a panel discussion and then out of the blue, a young boy presented his school to an audience of 140 kids and numerous adults. What was amazing was not just that he was probably the most inspiring person that spoke that day but that he was one of many at his school. This school is the Blue School in Wells and it models something called the Blue School Council which is a self elected council of young people who form groups around there passions and deliver community projects in the school. Their tagline is “The Blue School – Because change doesn’t happen on it’s own”. For me that rocks and would be great if replicated.
For more information see http://blueschoolcouncil.org/ and http://www.learningtolead.org.uk/
Also found a clip on climate change produced by their students 3 years ago on Youtube which is an interesting example of the product of this creative approach.
Preparing, inspiring and empowering young people for an uncertain future 