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Children from Manor Infant School, on the Waterside have joined Learning through Landscapes (LTL), the national school grounds charity, in celebrating National School Grounds Week 2006 (12-16 June)
Thanks to ExxonMobil’s support to schools near its refinery at Fawley, special events throughout the week enabled over 80 children at the school to join with LTL to explore the potential for creative art in the school grounds.
LTL’s Graham Parsons explained, ‘The school wanted to celebrate National School Grounds Week. This is a great national celebration of the potential that these outdoor classrooms have for learning and playing outside. Together we created some artwork in the school grounds using some of the natural materials to be found. The children had great fun getting creative in the school grounds.’
All the children created their own ‘muddy masterpieces’ using soil mixed with water and coloured with poster paint.
Manor Infant School is one of a group of 50 ‘Link schools’ across the UK that have close ties with ExxonMobil and have been working to improve the environment of their school grounds.
“It has been great fun,” explained headteacher Gill Hamer,”Using the school grounds as a location for artwork really captured the children’s imagination and they have benefited from the opportunities our partnership with ExxonMobil and Learning through Landscapes has generated.”
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