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