Picture by JASON HEDGES
Students at rural Speyside High School take break from classes to hold climate change protest in the hope that natural environment where they live will be preserved for future generations.
Picture: Fraser MacDonald (Guitar) Alexander Bond (white shirt) Freya Gordon (protest sign) and Rhea Fraser (Bagpipes)
Young environmental campaigners at Speyside High School have boycotted classes to highlight their fears about the future of the planet.
About 100 pupils walked out of lessons yesterday, in solidarity with other teenagers across the world.
Fourth year children Rhea Fraser and Fraser MacDonald brought their instruments and played Highland Cathedral and Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah during the protest.
Classmate Freya Gordon, who lives in Aberlour, explained the youngsters had been inspired by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg.
The campaigners hope to share experiences of their demonstration with other schools in Moray to encourage more pupils to join them.
Freya said: “Nothing is happening with governments. They say one thing about climate change and then go totally against it very soon after.
“It is heartbreaking. We don’t want to see the beautiful landscape around our homes destroyed by climate change.”
Pupil campaigners on Speyside join climate change protesters across world with classroom walkout
