One setting has been recycling its waste paper in-house – giving children the opportunity to problem-solve while teaching them about caring for the environment. By Annette Rawstrone

Getting hands on and making paper enabled children to be environmentally friendly, while also gaining a better understanding of the concept of recycling.

‘As a nursery group, we want to make sure that we are taking real steps forward in championing environmental awareness and limiting our impact on the environment so that the children we care for inherit a clean, safe and viable world,’ says Rebecca Kenyon, nursery manager at Snapdragons Corsham in Wiltshire.

‘Along with our practice as a company, we also emphasise our ethos in our teaching and try to think of activities that we can involve children in that ingrains caring for our environment into the children’s lives too.’

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