MP Trudy Harrison helps Nepal and Seascale team up to save the planet. HANDS of friendship have been passed between children in Nepal and the children of Seascale Nursery and Primary school, in an initiative that will see both school s children, grow vegetables simultaneously in gardens made from recycled plastic. Trudy Harrison, the MP for Copeland, who used to attend the school, paid a visit to learn about the project and the bilateral cookery book that the children of Seascale Nursery and Primary will produce with the children from Nepal. The MP spoke to children in years four and five about plastic pollution and how they are going to build a walled flower bed using recycles plastic bottles, as eco-bricks. She said: “I think what Seascale Nursery and Primary school is doing is absolutely inspirational. The children are getting 500 ml plastic bottles and stuffing them with 160 to 170 plastic bags to create solid plastic bricks.
Seascale Nursery and Primary school year 4 and 5 pupils receive their anti-bullying ambassador accreditations. SEASCALE Nursery and Primary School pupils, received their coveted Diana awards yesterday, as part of new anti-bullying awareness lessons. All the children in years four and five (ages eight to 10), will now become anti-bullying ambassadors during the rest of their time in education. The children had half a day online training, provided by the Diana award and are now ready to help when any bullying issue arises. A spokesperson for the Diana award, who helped organise the schools training said: “Since 2011, the Diana award has trained over 40,000 young people across the UK, to stand up to bullying, as anti-bullying ambassadors in their schools and communities. We do this using a peer-led approach, giving young people the skills, tools and knowledge to become the ‘up-stander,’ to all forms of bullying behaviour.