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22/03/23

Throwback to when Mr Godfrey welcomed the Y5s of into his classroom and demonstrated some exciting and experiments🧪 It was so great to see the enthusiasm of the Y5 pupils as they got stuck in with this fun day! https://t.co/mOI0BNS0jN

22/03/23

Last week MFL teacher, Ms More, attended the Kingston Grammar School Careers Fair where she spoke about her experiences & insights of the teaching profession, & opportunities to with the Waldegrave Training Alliance . 🙏 for hosting such a great event.

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21/03/23

We would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who supported us with our Fundraiser event for 🔴 It was great to see so many red outfits from both students and staff! We are thrilled to announce our grand total raised is £1,928.60 🥳🎉 https://t.co/XdBsIL5uId

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21/03/23

Retweetd From Waldegrave Sports

Last week we had exciting 6th form fixtures! Our U18 Netballers played and narrowly missed out on victory with the game finishing 16-18. Our U18 Footballers worked hard to finish 2-2 after going 2 down early on against Kings Maths School. Well done everyone 👏🏼 https://t.co/7CMZawZDYL

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21/03/23

Retweetd From Waldegrave Sports

A great morning at last week for the Richmond Borough Swimming Gala. A huge congratulations to all our swimmers! We took home 8 1st place medals across the year groups including winning both Year 9 freestyle & medley relays! 🥇🏊🏼‍♀️ https://t.co/gnyKillciA

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21/03/23

Retweetd From Waldegrave Sports

Another fantastic game for our Year 7 Netballer’s last night, winning 25-0 😱Well done to Daphne for getting POM! 👏🏼 Thank you for hosting us! https://t.co/SJoeoxlZff

20/03/23

Well done Y7s - you did us proud! 🌟 https://t.co/tcEm0tgZTZ

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19/03/23

Retweetd From Richmond Council

Funded by The Richmond Voluntary Fund, The Daniel Spargo-Mabbs Foundation will be hosting a FREE performance of the powerful verbatim play ‘I Love You, Mum – I Promise I Won’t Die’ by Mark Wheeller tomorrow (20 March) 🎭 Read more about it and book ⬇️ https://t.co/oPCSVb0jWU https://t.co/lMt8tPK60O

19/03/23

Retweetd From WizardTheatre

It's tomorrow!! Tickets still available, so please follow the link. Looking forward to seeing so many of our followers there! https://t.co/sXetdiC2yE

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17/03/23

Congratulations to Waldegrave alumni Lucy Challis for being named number 5 on E2E’s list of 100 female entrepreneurs for her excellent leadership of Blue Arrow Care. https://t.co/hxa9JK0sZd Well done Lucy! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 https://t.co/niwiVvA5jA

17/03/23

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Thank you for having us the students really enjoyed hearing about all the different areas of research! 💭🧠 https://t.co/839u69tspf

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17/03/23

Retweetd From Waldegrave Sports

More great Netball games this week against with our Year 7’s winning 12-5 and Year 8’s 23-1! Well done to POM’s Immy in Y7 and Jasmine in Y8 👏🏼🏅 https://t.co/k29Ewk8Cyr

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16/03/23

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The School corridors are filled with the sounds of strings, percussion, woodwind and brass, with rehearsals in full swing ahead of tonight's concert! https://t.co/IY0PfJqXXk

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16/03/23

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After a productive day of rehearsals and workshops, over 170 young musicians from our eight ISSP independent and state school partners come together for an evening celebration concert. https://t.co/2gRPE1JQ6J

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16/03/23

Retweetd From Hampton School Partnerships

The Anvil Chorus from Il Trovatore provides the joyful culmination of a wonderful day of music making - with young people from eight schools coming together to showcase their mutual love of music. https://t.co/HIClhjgD7a

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16/03/23

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Wow! Take a look at what 170+ musicians from ISSP partner schools , , , , , , and can produce together in a day. https://t.co/9bRe8QRaS5

14/03/23

Thank you for this fantastic opportunity! https://t.co/l3xSBqs7V2

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14/03/23

Did you know today is International Mathematics Day? Also known as Pi Day: 14 March =3/14=3.14= mathematical constant Pi. KS3 students are challenged to visualise Pi in a variety of ways & recite as many Pi digits as possible- how many do you know?! https://t.co/KwfaejhZus

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13/03/23

Retweetd From WizardTheatre

Hosted by for a play written by “I Love You, Mum - I Promise I Won’t Die” Next Monday! Book your tickets now! https://t.co/Oci2radZtL https://t.co/cDj5rm9Cnq

13/03/23

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Can you help support Off The Record, a local charity doing important work with young people. https://t.co/KZZzIV0rEy

Are Young People Facing an Eco-Anxiety Epidemic?

Are Young People Facing an Eco-Anxiety Epidemic?

 

Climate Activism and How Eco-Anxiety is Linked to it? By Dila K

 

   A climate activist is a person who actively campaigns to have issues of climate change recognized and addressed. Climate activists are involved with climate change and they have to deal with lots of bad news so it is hard for them not to develop eco-anxiety.

 

Eco anxiety refers to a fear of ecological disaster and people aged 15-25 are increasingly suffering from this mental health related problem. Especially climate activists and young scientists who follow the news and focus on statistics that show negative trends, they then develop anxiety over ecological disasters and their future.

 

Statistics

A new survey of eco-anxiety, published in September 2021 questioned young people from 10 countries, and 10.000 young people opened up about their concerns. The countries were the U.K., the United States, Australia, Brazil, Finland, France, India, Nigeria, the Philippines, and Portugal. The survey shows that 75% of teenagers and young people stress over the climate crisis. Even though not all of these people are scientists or activists, they come across lots of news that makes them worry. More than 50% of survey respondents said they felt “Sad, anxious, angry, powerless, helpless, and guilty.” about climate change. About half of these people said that their worries about climate change affected their daily lives.Overall, 75% of young respondents said, “The future is frightening.”In more affected countries, the percentage was even higher. For example, in the Philippines, 92%,and in Portugal, it was 81%.


Scientists and climate activists have been warning world leaders about climate change for so long,but unfortunately they can never get anything done because the leaders took so long to respond and they still refuse to take action. This is the main reason why young people develop eco-anxiety, of course with other factors too. 


 

What's the impact?

Half of the people who joined the survey also said that eco-anxiety affected their daily lives. These effects can be sleep problems, headaches, concentration loss, and even physical health problems if you’re worrying too much. If eco-anxiety concerns you so much that you can’t stop thinking about it, you should take a break from checking the news, and try to take a break from reading about environmental issues.

 

We also interviewed two students in Waldegrave School for Girls, Year 9. They have said that they feel “anxious and scared of their future.” and that they were aware that the climate crisis is already affecting people's lives.

 

In conclusion, we can say that young people aged about 15-25 develop eco-anxiety and their worries affect their daily lives. They have a feeling of betrayal from their governments who refuse to take action. They want scientist’s and youth voices to be heard, that way they can hope that something will change. The Impact of eco-anxiety is all around them and they are trying to cope with it while the climate crisis is on the rise.