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Coombeshead College pupils help to launch FSFC on School Report Day, 22 March 

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Cool School! Coombeshead College, Devon

Younger generations will be increasingly affected by the impacts of climate change. Sustainability South West (FSFC’s coordinators) have partnered up with a school in Newton Abbot, Devon, who are committed to taking action. Pupils at Coombeshead College voted Climate Change and Sustainability as their top concerns prompting their Principal, Richard Haigh, to get in touch with SSW in 2006. Coombeshead will be the first school to produce a Fair Shares, Fair Choice ‘Carbon Action Plan’ and has also registered with the national Eco Schools programme.

Staff and pupils at Coombeshead College have been looking at their carbon footprints and are helping to trial a version of the Fair Shares, Fair Choice carbon calculator designed specifically for young people. The teachers are already starting to rethink the way they get to work and canteen staff are looking at how they can purchase more low carbon, locally sourced food.

Coombeshead College specialises in media and hosted FSFC’s Devon and Cornwall press launch on 22 March as part of their packed ‘School Report Day’ programme*.  

Visit Coombeshead College’s website at www.coombeshead.devon.sch.uk

*BBC News’s annual ‘School Report Day’ offers schools from around the UK the chance show off their media skills and link in with BBC broadcast services.