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 Participating schools received a mission requesting them to make a change that would benefit both their local and global environment. They were asked to consider, ‘How much energy and resources can your school save before London 2012? How can your pupils become creative activists? And how can you create a sign big enough to share your ‘eco-action’ with the rest of the world?’
Schools who accepted the mission met for a Champions Summit at a secret central London location at the start of the project, to think about what the environment and climate change meant to them. Each school then formed an Eco-Team before creating an eco-action and making a sign big enough for an astroscientist to see from space.
The schools:
Barking & Dagenham
Thomas Arnold Primary School – created a sign using recycled materials and their bodies to form flowers and insects, an essential part of the eco-system.
Barnet
East Bar net School – Year 9 students designed a new school garden and created a movement and drama piece reflecting the seasons.
Barnet
Queen Elizabeth’s Girls’ School – students designed and built their own giant 3D tap, which they positioned over their school’s empty pond.
Ealing
Beaconsfield Primary School – the whole school gathered to make the sign from collected bottletops, recycled bags and willow structures.
Ealing
Brentside High School – Year 9 students created a moving sign, animated using a routine that they created and practiced together.
Hackney
Springfield Community Primary – Year 5 created a sign merging the school and recycling logo to launch “reduce, reuse, pollution will lose!”
Lambeth
Dunraven School – Year 7 built a giant version of their school logo from recycled materials to launch ‘Eco Action Day’.
Lewisham
Haberdashers Askes Knights Academy – Year 8 students encouraged the local community to recycle old mobile phones for charity.
Redbridge
Oakdale Junior School – used recycling to produce a globe that formed the ‘o’ in their sign of ‘HOPE’.
Tower Hamlets
George Green’s School – students created a ‘George Green Goes Green’ sign from recycled materials to recruit for their Eco Council.
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Lead organisation:
Emergency Exit Arts (EEA) is the arts company with the vision, imagination and capacity to deliver unforgettable theatrical events and participatory experiences.
www.eea.org.uk/
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