Dear all, Upon inheriting the Looking Glass from our predecessors, we identified a number of key issues. Firstly, there were simply not enough articles being published, due both to a lack of submissions from the school community and limited responsiveness from the previous Academic Team. Secondly, the Looking Glass had not been advertised or explained effectively enough to the wider school community. As a result, we plan to implement a more consistent and engaging stream of articles on the Looking Glass. As part of this initiative, we are looking to recruit a select group of keen writers from across the lower school who would be willing to produce one high-quality piece of writing, discussion, or media each month for publication on the Looking Glass. We believe this will be hugely beneficial both to the school community, which will gain access to a wider range of opinions and viewpoints, and to prospective writers, who will be able to reference their experience contributing to the Look...
Adam Osborne (Year 12) It is without doubt that we are currently experiencing a climate crisis in the form of climate change but what exactly is climate change and what are the ways in which we can slow down the impacts it is causing on Earth. In this essay I will go into what climate change is, the effects of it and certain mitigation measures and adaptation strategies we can undertake to save our planet for our future generations from suffering irreversible damage. Climate change refers to the long-term shifts in the weather patterns and global temperatures. This has been caused both naturally and from humans. The main human activities that have driven climate change include the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation. The burning of fossil fuels results in large amounts of carbon dioxide being released which is a greenhouse gas. Greenhouse gases trap heat in our atmosphere which causes global warming which means that temperatures begin to rise. Furthermore, deforestation is a...