Issues of global ecology were addressed when children from Greenfields Children's Centre in Southall, London, made and launched a giant Eco-Fish this summer.
Drawing on the three- and four-year-olds' interest in water, artists Rosie Potter and Kirstie Reid worked with them and their families to look at the disastrous effects on the environment from the vast amounts of plastic waste floating around the oceans.
'There is a lot of wastage in the world,' explains children's centre head June McHugh. 'One of our responsibilities is to enable children to understand the consequences of how they live and how it may affect the environment. We want the children to be autonomous learners and thinkers.'
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