Nursery World - Enabling Environments: Sustainability

School and nursery children took the principles of Forest School to the water, with an added environmental message, in ecological sustainability activities beside the seaside.

A sustainability project has provided Sidmouth All Saints C of E Infant School with the ideal opportunity to take advantage of its location, minutes away from a beach.

Devon's Education for Sustainability scheme (see box) was a logical extension of the school's environmental education programme, which focused on food production, healthy eating and the 3Rs Project (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle), supported by Global Action Plan. Taking water as its theme for the project, the school aimed to teach children about the importance of water to all living things and related subjects, such as water pollution and its impact on wildlife. It also saw the scheme as a way to involve the on-site pre-school and educate the wider community about ecology.

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