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RECYCLING and ECO FOOTPRINT
St Edmund’s Nursery School & Children’s Centre &Midland Road Nursery School & Children’s Centre
Bradford, England
Walking is Healthy for Us and Our World
On our way to Nursery
Parents and children use the new pathway as a safe route for walking to Nursery . Explaining to parents the benefits of
walking and cycling for all the family.
Walk to find the “Hairy Flea”
following the trail
Walking to the shops
buying locally
Walking to the library
Sharing stories - no-cost books
Using the environment to promote physical activity and good health
Using stories , games, songs and rhymes to promote physical activity and good
health
“Going on a Bear Hunt” Playing Hide and Seek
The Forest School to promote physical activity and good health
Parents and children look for examples of numeracy in the local environment by going on a number walk
Developing numeracy
Making a tally . Counting the number of people walking along the pathway
Respecting our World as we learn
Children and Practitioners worked together with Sponge Tree, a local creative arts organisation that works with natural and found materials
Using found materials to explore
Using charcoal found after a fire to make marks
Using packaging to explore the windy weather
Incorporating found natural materials into play provision
Tactile play
Incorporating found materials into play provision
Exploratory play Imaginative play
By Recycling we are helping to look after our World
The children help Ophi to sort the rubbish for recycling
Using recycled materials for creative purposes
children’s exploratory
experiences with mixed media
Early exploratory experiences using recycled resources
Sensory and exploratory play with shredded paper
Making monsters using recycled resources
Energy-saving at our school
heat
water paper
food
Looking after our environment
The litter pick
Looking after our environment
creating habitats
Looking after our environment
using books
Looking after our world and ourselves
Health of Art course where parents use natural and recycled resources to make things and improve their well being
Looking after our world and ourselves
Saturday Dads’ events where male carers and children work together using recycled resources
At Home: Parents and children make monsters
together, and stories about themOur medium term plan has suggestions for what parents can do with their child :use junk material to make a monster, use Scrap Magic Stall.
Scrap Magic Store
• In the UK we have 90 scrapstores supplying waste materials suitable for creative projects including play. We have an umbrella organisation called ReusefulUK who promote scrapstores nationally. Something which is unique to the UK
• Teachers and practitioners can use this centre to obtain recycled resources to use at Nursery
Sharing our work with parents and visitorsSharing plans about intended learning and how parents can
support this
What you can do with your child:
· Make a monster puppet from junk materials and bring it into school for a monster display
· Involve your child with recycling materials at home by sorting and talking about what different things are made of
· Invite your child to make up a story about monsters and make it into a book by writing their words down
· Go on a local walk with your child to find “The Hairy Flea”
· Find stories about monsters at City library/Manninghamlibrary
We would like children to ….
Use technology to record what we do and what we makeThink of ways to record how we travel to schoolHelp to sort our scrap materials for recyclingObserve a bicycle closely and see how it worksMake 3D models and moving puppetsMake up your own monster stories and use music & movement to imagine being a monster