The Eco Committee were invited to work on a project with Rags to Riches who are based at Govanhill Baths. We met with some very special artists who use unwanted items that people throw away to create wonderful pieces of art. The Eco Committee were set a task to come up with ideas for the design of a play structure which would be sited in the infant playground. They wanted it to be on a Water theme as this was one of the three Eco Schools topics we were working on and they wanted it to show pollution of our oceans with plastic, but also use plastic to prevent it from going to landfill sites or ending up going down drains in the street and ending up in our already polluted seas.

They met with the artists and experimented with some different junk items such as cardboard, pipes, pieces of plastic or bottle tops and noted down their ideas. Everything that would be used to create the structure was going to be recycled. In the photos below, you can see them working on their ideas and the finished article.  The structure has proved to be big hit with our infant pupils who climb all over it every day. It also reminds everyone who sees it about the plight of sea creatures because of plastic pollution.