Video: Kids teach Bradford leaders a thing or two

STUDENTS from two Yorkshire schools have given presentations to business leaders at an event promoting sustainability across the Leeds City Region.

Pupils from both Carleton Community High in Pontefract and Kettlethorpe High School in Wakefield took centre stage at the Business and a Sustainable Environment event at Bradford University yesterday.

The two teams were among ten finalists of the Solutions for the Planet “Big Ideas” initiative at Westminster earlier this year.

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Kettlethorpe students’ plan was to cut CO2 emissions by encouraging tourists to travel by public transport and on foot with fluorescent footmarks on the pavement to guide visitors around a town or city. Carleton High School’s plan was to “develops venues of opportunity for young people, to nurture talent, develop skills and create a culture of enterprise”.

The two teams of children have been introduced to the Base event by Kevin Schofield, a sustainability consultant at accountancy and business advisory firm BDO LLP in Leeds.

He said: “It is fantastic that the two teams from Carleton and Kettlethorpe have been given the opportunity to once again show the leaders of today what the leaders of tomorrow aspire to. Innovation and sustainability have two very important roles to play.

“It is incredible that these young people can genuinely inspire the business community. I have been involved with Solutions for the Planet for three years now and each year you think the ideas can’t get any better but then up pops another group of young people with a fantastically unorthodox and innovative way of looking at a problem and solving it.”