Down to Earth at Fenstanton Primary School, Tulse Hill.

On Wednesday we found ourselves just about half a mile up the road from Jubilee School, last weeks project, to be at Fenstanton Primary School. We worked with 3 classes from year 2 which presented a challenge as the Down to Earth  project is geared for Key stage 2 (Year 4 to 6). Interestingly the children's knowledge of the subject was impressive and after questioning them about the environment they were not slow in talking about recycling and reusing. After the warm up the classes split into two groups in a face off on the stage. They represent two tribes, one being wasteful and the other grateful. We explain that these two tribes live in all of is. Sometimes we are grateful for the planet and we take care of it, we turn off the lights or pick up litter. On the other hand we can be wasteful throwing wrappers on the floor or leaving lights on.  I worked separately with a group of four children who represent the wasteful gang and they are challenged to change their ways or lose the planet. The other children create the other workshop scenes that the gang of four visit in order to make their decision. They go to China to see the pollution  caused by  industry, to India to see how humans and elephants can live side by side peacefully and finally to a museum of extinct and endangered species to see that humans too are threatened by poor management of the planet.  The children put on a stella performance to Year 1  children who looked on in admiration. Well done Year 2! Our next project goes back to Southall to Dairy- Meadow Primary school on Friday.