Working together....

It's been hot, it's been humid but more than anything it has been grey and rainy. Where did the sun go over the May half term holiday? We don't know, but thankfully it didn't take the TARU crew and a band of faithful followers with them. They all came along to build five primary schools' giant puppets and the float - a cartoon like car.

Over the week families and parents and children came along to the William Patten playground to help turn general household rubbish into magnificent flights of fancy or animals with school associations. Turning carrier bags into feathers for a giant bird, cereal packets into the legs and arms of a character, plastic bottles into flowers, weaving coloured plastic through net to make a colourful frog seemed like a much better use of recycled materials than landfill.

The recycling message seemed to have been sinking in with the children as one young child when asked what he'd like to do more of with his family announced, "recycling".

This part of the overall project was organised by Stoke Newington School specialist school's department in collaboration with TARU who ran the sessions. It was funded by North Hackney Cluster Extended Schools and big thanks go to Shazia and members of the cluster group for enabling this activity to take place - and of course William Patten for hosting it.