Halton St Mary’s: This Morning I Met a Whale
We had been reading the book ‘This morning I met a whale’ and this highlighted to the children in a powerful way the danger that plastics and packaging can cause our world.
Our starting point of raising awareness was created by pupils reflecting upon creation and the stewardship of it, then we introduced them to the idea of pollution and over use of plastics, moving to what action could they take at home and also our impact of choices in school, for example recycling of paper, card and plastic. All this was considered so we could “Bring on a better world.”
The children organised rotas for picking up litter in the school grounds and others wrote to leading supermarkets to ask them to reduce the amount of packaging and plastic that they use. Marks and Spencer have replied and have explained about how they have reduced plastics
Another issue that was raised was the danger of different fishing techniques, we investigated and wrote to the embassies of Japan, China and Spain, asking them to consider limited dangerous fishing, such as large trawler nets.