What’s happened to our classrooms?

After a jam-packed term, year 1 came back to find our classrooms empty of furniture and filled with rubbish! There was a mixture of plastic, card and other materials dumped in the middle of the carpet. 

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The Year 1 teachers were inspired by a thought provoking video to introduce our new topic ‘Under the Sea’. In the video, a man begins by living in a lovely flat with everything around him. Day by day, a part of the flat is stripped away and eventually he is left with a single room filled with rubbish and over heating due to a huge heater. This video was created to highlight the effects our rubbish is having on the environment which we tried to recreate in our classroom by taking away our things and leaving rubbish!

Link: •https://www.facebook.com/EarthHourUK/posts/10156140255583965t

The children showed great empathy and kindness when discussing how we can help the animals around the world through recycling. We attempted to clean up our classroom by sorting the objects into their materials. We then created posters emphasising the need to recycle to protect our environment and animals. 

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