IN PREPARATION for a future looking increasingly green, a primary school in Denbigh will be joining a national effort to show support for rainforests suffering from the effects of climate change.

Ysgol Frongoch, Denbigh, will participate in ‘Go Green Day’ on Friday, June 22 an environmental awareness day organised by Size of Wales, a charity that looks to encourage people of all ages in Wales to tackle the problem of climate change by taking simple, positive actions.

Pupils will go to school as their favourite animal and take part in workshops and games organised by representatives from Size of Wales, who will hold a morning assembly talk, to get children thinking about issues such as climate change and deforestation and their potential solutions.

The school will also receive a visit from Llyr Gruffyd, AM for North Wales and Plaid Cymru’s former shadow minister for the environment and sustainability.

Mrs Boyd, teacher at Ysgol Frongoch, said: “It is important that children learn about these issues. We have covered recycling in our curriculum and held a Green Day earlier in the year, which the children were very positive about, while the school has been taking part in litter picking around Denbigh with Cllr Mark Young, and attend the school’s extracurricular Eco Club

“Size of Wales’ initiative will follow on from what the children have already learned and they are really excited about it.”

The awareness day, organised by Size of Wales, will help fund the charity's major project, the protection of 2 million hectares of rainforest - twice the size of Wales - which the charity secured in 2013, as well as a variety of related projects such as supporting communities to gain land rights, buying tree seedlings and funding rangers.

It will not only be pupils leading the way for Wales in protecting rainforests, however, as a plethora of organisations have signed up as Go Green fundraising champions, including Public Health Wales, WCVA, Minuteman Cardiff, Natural Resources Wales, who will be donating the proceeds to the charity’s projects from supporting communities to gain land rights, to buying tree seedlings and funding rangers.

Rita Singh, director of Size of Wales said: “We are really excited for Wales to ‘go green’ on Friday and to see the variety of activities that will be happening to support our amazing forest projects.

“Fundraising efforts go a huge way towards tackling the impacts of climate change and showing what a nation the size of Wales can do to be globally responsible.

“In previous years, fundraising efforts have seen people ditching the car and cycling to work or school, holding a bake sale, having an all green picnic or dressing head to toe in green for the day.”

It’s not too late to take part. To find out more or donate, visit sizeofwales.org.uk or follow the day on Twitter with #GoGreenDay