YOUNGSTERS at a Worcester primary school have stepped up efforts this term to recycle and re-use more materials and are encouraging residents across the city to do likewise.
Cranham Primary School in Warndon has placed small recycling bins in every classroom which are emptied by pupils in to larger green bins at the end of each week, ready for collection by Worcester City Council.
The school is organising a Halloween costume swap event, allowing pupils and parents to grab a new outfit for free – whilst ensuring that their costumes get more use before they are thrown away.
Everyone can wear their ‘new’ outfit at the school’s Halloween disco on the Thursday before half term starts this weekend.
Cranham Primary School, part of The Rivers CE Academy Trust, has also embedded the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals into its curriculum. This ensures the careful use of resources and action to address climate change become an integral part of pupil’s learning.
Headteacher Nick Cale said: “If each one of our 440 pupils passes on the recycling message to another 440 individuals, imagine the difference that could be made.
“All of our lessons are linked to Sustainability Development Goals and children are already making links between themes, environmental issues and their learning.
“Our pupils are becoming ambassadors for change, and that has to be a good thing!!”
Visit www.worcestershire.gov.uk/info/20707/kerbside_recycling_services to check which items are recyclable locally or www.worcester.gov.uk/recycling-waste/household-recycling/recycling-sites for opening times for household recycling centres.
