Rubbish Transformers
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Project Overview
During Spring term project we will transform rubbish into useful or decorative objects so that The Robins can learn about re-using household items that would otherwise end up in the bin. We will be finding out the answers to questions such as,
Where does most of our rubbish end up?
How much rubbish can be recycled?
How much rubbish can be re-used?
The Robins will have a dedicated area of the greenhouse to plant seeds and care for plants.
We will experience caring for our environment by understanding two key factors, the importance of not adding to landfill and improving biodiversity. We will also write poems to express our love of nature.
Please join us at school for the 'Save Our Futures' event on Saturday 26th April.
Project End Goal
We know how to transform our planet
Project Steps
Step 1: What happens to everything we put in the bin? Step 2: What can we do to reduce, reuse and recycle?
Step 3: We can care for and express our love of nature
Step 4: We can transform how people feel about rubbish
Links to the Curriculum
Communication and Language
• Listen attentively and respond to what they hear with relevant questions,comments and actions when being read to and during whole class discussions and small group interactions.
• Make comments about what they have heard and ask questions to clarify their
understanding.
• Hold conversation when engaged in back-and-forth exchanges with their teacher
and peers.
• Participate in small group, class and one-to-one discussions, offering their own ideas, using recently introduced vocabulary.
• Offer explanations for why things might happen, making use of recently introduced vocabulary from stories, non-fiction, rhymes and poems when appropriate.
• Express their ideas and feelings about their experiences using full sentences, including use of past, present, and future tenses and making use of conjunctions, with modelling and support from their teacher.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
• Set and work towards simple goals, being able to wait for what they want and control their immediate impulses when appropriate.
• Give focused attention to what the teacher says, responding appropriately even when engaged in activity, and show an ability to follow instructions involving several ideas or actions.
• Be confident to try new activities and show independence, resilience and perseverance in the face of challenge.
Literacy
• Use and understand recently introduced vocabulary.
• Write recognisable letters, most of which are correctly formed.
• Spell words by identifying sounds in them and representing the sounds with a letter or letters.
• Write simple phrases and sentences that can be read by others.
Maths
• Count beyond 10.
• Compare numbers.
• Select, rotate and manipulate shapes to develop spatial reasoning skills.
• Compose and decompose shapes so that children recognise a shape can have other shapes within it, just as numbers can.
Understanding the World
• Describe their immediate environment using knowledge from observation, discussion, stories, non-fiction texts, and maps.
• Explore the natural world around them, making observations and drawing pictures of animals and plants.
• Know some similarities and differences between the natural world around them and contrasting environments, drawing on their experiences and what has been read in class.
• Understand some important processes and changes in the natural world around
them, including the seasons and changing states of matter.
Expressive Art and Design
• Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form, and function.
• Share their creations, explaining the process they have used.
14th February 2025
We have been busy transforming rubbish into useful or decorative items.
We made necklaces with wire and various shapes we found in the recycling.
We used off cuts of wood, nails and wool to make unique decorative art panels.
Austen said, "It looks like the Northern Lights or a tube map."
We used old scraps of material to weave in and out of an unused bicycle wheel. The end result is beautiful!
We used plastic fruit punnets as moulds to make new paper mache bowls.
We used non fiction books such as, I am Not an Eggbox for inspiration.
6th March 2025
The workshop at Morden Park taught us how to identify mini beasts and their habitats.
We have learnt what plants need to thrive through planting seeds with Chloe.
Both activities have supported our love of nature and inspired our poetry writing.
With Nacera we have learnt about different materials and the importance of recycling, reducing and reusing. We have written pledges to share the things we can do to take care of the environment.
We had enormous fun making recycled seed paper.
4th April 2025
Just as our trip to Morden Park taught us more about mini beasts, our trip to Kew Gardens taught us more about plants and trees.
We have decided to transform part of our school into a conservation area to improve and protect plants and mini beasts.
We have set about clearing a dedicated area and we are making a new and improved bug hotel.
We are learning from Jenny who is helping us to plan what to plant in this area.
We decided to repurpose our old sandpit into a planting bed. We removed the sand and replaced it with soil.
Together we spoke about what type of plants we would like. We went to the garden centre to buy the plants. We used photograph and label clues to find the plants we were looking for.
We have completed the most wonderful nature poems and decorated the frames using beautiful natural resources we found around our school site.
We are transforming the last of the recycling we collected to make a recycling city.
We installed the collage we made earlier this term in the creation station. Be sure to view it at Save Our Futures. The Robins named the installation, 'Mixed Up Rainbow.'
We are making project title tiles. Each of us decorating an individual letter. Will you be able to order the letters to spell 'RUBBISH TRANSFORMERS' at the Save Our Futures event?
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