The children looked at the book ‘The Blue Giant’ together. It is a beautiful written story about our oceans becoming filled with rubbish and the effect this has on the sea life. The children began to discuss how to support the natural world and take care of our planet. The children knew how important sea life and the oceans are to our planet and seemed genuinely concerned. They began to discuss their ideas around how we can help.

“Rubbish was going in. If you put it in the your long term memory so you can remember to not put it in the sea”
- Child

“We could swim under the water to get the rubbish out”
- Edward

“A sweetie wrapper was on the birds beak, it can’t eat. Mum doesn’t like cars because they are polluted. They have diesel and petrol. We could make carrier bags into something new”.
- Alma

The practitioner asked the children what we could do to help at nursery. Ted began to talk about taking care of our nursery garden by watering the plants we already have. He also suggested that we could plant our apple seeds and grow new fruit trees. He pointed out we would have to water them and then we could eat the fruits which grow on them. The children thought this was a great idea and luckily we had all the items we needed to plant apple seeds. Hannah popped to the kitchen and collected two apples for us and we counted the seeds to make sure we had enough for everyone. There was even enough for the grown ups to grow their own tree! We carefully planted our apple seeds in small pots and Ted reassured us that they would be watered in order for them to grow.