Pupils at Seascale Primary School enjoyed a visit from their local MP during their last day of term.
On Friday, Copeland MP Trudy Harrison joined pupils and teachers in Alder and Maple classes to discuss their innovative work to reduce plastic waste.
The school is taking part in the Centre for Leadership Performance Bright Stars Programme, which this year challenges pupils to lead a campaign on something they want to improve and have developed a Reduce, Reuse & Recycle campaign to help tackle plastic pollution using eco-bricks.
An ecobrick is a plastic bottle packed with used plastic that can be used to produce items, including furniture, garden walls and other structures.
Discussions then moved onto the developing world and the school’s link with Montessori Preschool, Bal Raman Batika in Nepal.
The two schools, which are more than 4,000 miles apart, are working together on a project to produce cookery book.
Mrs Harrison said: “It was such a treat to be shown around the brand-new school, particularly as it was also my old school.
“I was impressed with the children’s knowledge of the developing world and their innovative solutions for plastic pollution. I spoke with year one pupils about their cookery book project with Nepal, their plans to grow their own, and their interest in the global vaccine success.
“I was able to tell the pupils about the 1.9 million vaccines that have been sent to Nepal, which was of a particular interest as they are speaking with children in Kathmandu, and meeting with years four and five, I learned about their brilliant project to contain plastic pollution in a bottle to be used as building material for their raised beds.”
