Some of our children kicked off Great British Beach Clean week with a visit to the local beach.
A group of three and four-year-olds visited the two minute beach clean boards outside the Lido Café on Portishead’s seafront and arming ourselves with litter pickers we headed to the beach to remove any plastic waste and pick up any litter.
At The Nursery we feel it’s important for our children to learn that by simply giving up just two minutes of our time, together we can make a difference. If we can help the children to identify litter on our local beaches, learn about the importance of recycling and how this in turn reduces waste, hopefully we can ignite a passion for helping to keep our coastline and waterways clean now and for future generations.
Earlier this year the children also took part in a plastics clean-up at the town’s marina to mark Earth Day, picking up any discarded plastic bottles and placing them in a purpose built Green Seas Trust bin, which is made of recycled plastic.
It’s important that our children understand the need for us all to take care of the environment.
The Great British Beach Clean is a week-long citizen science event (which this year runs from 20-29 September), organised by the Marine Conservation Society, where hundreds of beach cleans take place up and down the UK.
