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Wild about animals - and green with it!
Published 30.06.2011 11:14
Spelthorne Infant Citizenship 2011

An impressive and colourful menagerie of endangered species - from pandas and tigers to crocodiles and honeybees - gathered together as a lesson in sustainability.

Imaginative ways of recycling and reusing were on the agenda when 11 Spelthorne infant schools attended the Infant Citizenship event on Friday 24 June.

The children had been set the task of making a model of an endangered species from waste materials to show what artistic and practical creations they could come up with.

Each school delivered a presentation and there were a variety of beautifully crafted creatures including a snow leopard, red squirrel, American crocodile and West African giraffe.

The children also met the Mayor of Spelthorne, Councillor Sam Budd, and enjoyed a fast-paced Ecoquiz.

The Mayor presented the children with certificates after the presentations and posed with them and the animals in the grounds of Knowle Park Infant School, which hosted this year’s event.

An array of fresh fruit was kindly donated by Waitrose Staines and enjoyed by the children during break time.

The Mayor said: “Young people and the environment are priorities for Spelthorne and I was very pleased to see how much the children enjoyed being set this kind of challenge. Their presentations were superb.”

Spelthorne’s Sustainability and Waste Officer, Lucy McSherry, spoke to each delegation about their project and summed up afterwards by saying: “We are fortunate that the young people in the Borough’s schools have such a commitment to the environment. Their models and presentations were truly inspiring.”

Infant schools taking part were Beauclerc; Hawkedale; Knowle Park; Littleton; Ashford CE; Buckland; Chennestone; Clarendon; St Michael’s; St Nicholas’s and Town Farm.

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