Children shine with transformation to teaching area
IF you go down to the woods today!
Children at a Birmingham primary school have an added incentive to learn, after a previously plain patch of grass was transformed into a mini-woodland delight.
Staff and pupils at Sundridge Primary, in Sundridge Road, Kingstanding, have been busily getting creative by turning the grass on the edge of the playground into an outdoor teaching area.
The enriched site now boasts a copse of native trees and an exciting willow tunnel, leading to a delightful story circle, ringed by a natural, growing fence, with logs inside for children to sit on.
And the environmental project is now being featured as part of national Shine Week, starting today, which aims to showcase the wonderful variety of creative talent within the UK’s schools.
Activities covering subjects ranging from the arts and music to theatre and sports will be held all this week in celebration of Shine.
To celebrate Shine Week, the Birmingham Mail is inviting children from across the West Midlands to write in with questions to Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
A selection of questions and answers will then be printed in a free supplement given out with the Mail during the week beginning next Monday. Questions should be e-mailed, along with your name and address, to tony.collins@birminghammail.net
* Schools can get more information by visiting www.shineweek.co.uk
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