National 30-minute Student Strike, 20th September 2019
Headteachers, your students may wish to join a national 30-minute strike for action on climate change on Friday 20th September. Below are three ways you can support them (with opportunity for follow-up training here):
- Assembly before or after the strike – inform students about likely costs and benefits of different types of action, e.g. strikes, petitions, relational power-building for negotiation with power-holders. Your Citizens:mk Community Organiser and leaders of member institutions can lead an assembly presentation.
- Conversations– each student could have a one-to-one conversation with three other students – within or between year groups, indoors or outside – to discuss global warming. They could talk about:
- Your global warming habits
- what you do that contributes most to it?
- what do you do that contributes most to reducing it?
- what more would you like to do to reduce it?
- Who has most power to reduce global warming?
- who are the main power holders?
- which of these are most accessible to you?
- what can you do to help him/her/them?
- Your family and friends
- what’s the worst habit of someone you know
- realistically, what could s/he do differently?
- what would you say to them?
- Your global warming habits
- Survey Action – students could collect data to answer some or all of the questions below, and feed the results back to Citizens:mk who will collate the data from all MK schools and produce a report which you can present back to all participants:
- Why are you taking part in this survey?
- I care passionately about reducing global warming and feed driven to take action
- I think it’s important and want to play my part
- I like getting out of normal lessons
- I didn’t want to take part, but was forced to.
- If you think global warming is an importan issue, which power holders do you think have most power to reduce it (rank them 1-8 where 1=most powerful and 8=least powerful)
- United Nations
- UK government
- Milton Keynes Council
- My neighbourhood
- My school
- My family
- Me
- Other (please state).
- Why are you taking part in this survey?
For further information, or to express interest in taking part, contact Tom Bulman, Community Organiser, tel 07962 838685.