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Flintshire's Schools engage with Wales Climate Week

Published: 27/11/2025

Flintshire County Council has been bringing Climate Change and Schools together once again for Wales Climate Week 2025.

Wales Climate Week is an annual event arranged by Welsh Government to encourage people and organisations across the country to explore, promote, and celebrate action to address climate change. For 2025, the week was held between the 3rd and 7th November.

Building on the School Climate Toolkits launched in 2024, Flintshire County Council used Wales Climate Week to share knowledge and promote action within schools across the themes of Climate Change, Energy, Mobility and Transport, Waste and Recycling, and Biodiversity.

Each day of the week, Schools were invited to join a short live stream introducing the day’s theme explaining how it relates to Climate Change, and launch activities for the classroom and home where young people learn first-hand about global warming and the actions needed to address it. During the live streams, several schools and their classes were in attendance, bringing with them over 200 learners. Classroom and home activity materials have been downloaded hundreds of times from the Council’s website.

Activities for the schools and home included an experiment to create and observe the effects of greenhouse gases in a closed container, tips to become energy heroes to assess, monitor and reduce energy use in schools, investigating pollution outside of schools and promotion of the daily mile, recycling bingo, and making space for nature to thrive.

To make this event happen, Flintshire County Council services and organisations including Healthy Schools, Climate Change, Non-domestic Energy, Rights of Way, Waste and Recycling, Biodiversity, Play Development, Information Technology, Communications, NEWydd and the Walk Wheel Cycle Trust Cymru, came together collaborating on the materials which are readily available to download and delivery of the live streams. 

Celebrating the event, Cllr Chris Dolphin, Cabinet Member for Environment, Regeneration, Countryside and Tourism said; “Engaging young people on climate change is fundamental to building the green skills and knowledge that ensures action to reduce carbon emissions is happening today and well into the future.  It is pleasing to see such a variety of officers and organisations working together to deliver for schools. It is a clear demonstration that climate change has a wide-ranging impact, but with that brings a breadth of actions and opportunities we can benefit from in society.”

Wales Climate Week is now finished until 2026, but businesses, communities, schools, and residents alike are encouraged to take this opportunity to work towards a low-carbon society where people can benefit from reduced energy costs, cleaner air and better access to nature.

Visit Flintshire County Council’s Climate Change webpage and Climate Action Wales to find plenty of opportunities to take climate action.