A SCHOOL in Llangollen has held a Go Green event as part of a new curriculum.

Year 7 students at Ysgol Dinas Bran held the event as part of the 2015 Wellbeing of Future Generations Act

Students used the day to outline the green initiatives the school has undertaken, as well as highlighting the long term effects of climate change on the planet.

Annette Gardner, teacher at Ysgol Dinas Bran, said: "As a Platinum Eco School we have always had sustainability and protecting the environment as an important part of our school ethos.

"The involvement of the students at the forefront of this is critical to addressing the issues surrounding sustainable development and protecting our environment.

"As such the student council have started a campaign against the use of Styrofoam in schools and also the need to reduce our consumption of single use plastics.

"We have been working with Mark Gahan at Severn Wye and Rural Futures, Ceri Mair who is leading the Plastic Free Llangollen campaign and also the Cittaslow Llangollen group on the town council who all gave talks and took part in workshops run by the InterClimate Network.

"The key topics were food and waste in schools, single use plastics, reducing waste, energy use and sustainable travel in schools.

"We secured a Rural Futures lotto grant to run the workshops on sustainability and single use plastics for our year 7 students. The Go Green Day launched by our Sixth Form who had created a very informative PowerPoint on plastics and its long term effects on the planet also involved our International link schools in Italy and Germany.

"Video clips of their own sustainability projects that they are working on in their own countries were shown and it is obvious that students all across the globe care about making a difference on this issue for the future.

"We invited Ken Skates AM and also Susan Elan Jones MP, unfortunately both were busy in Cardiff and Westminster today but both gave their overwhelming support and want to follow this up when they are available and come in and speak more about this project and how they can help. Mr Skates sent a personal message to our students in a short video clip from his constituency office on Friday which we shared with the groups.

"We will be asking our year 7 students to work with our upcoming year 6 primary students in workshops during transition week teaching them about what they have learned on sustainability and the issues surrounding single use plastics as to involve the wider community.

"Our students believe that to live up to the 2015 Wellbeing of Future Generations Act we need to take action now on all of these key issues. It has been a student led initiative which was both enjoyable and informative on a very important issue."