Hello flower!
This week is National Compost Awareness Week - 4 to 10
May. It's the perfect opportunity for smiling sunflowers
Cameron and Chloe to help launch a new schools project from The
Vale of Glamorgan Council – sunflower making on a grand and unusual
scale!
Local schools, such as Oakfield Primary School
in Barry where Cameron and Chloe are pupils, will be asked to join
in with the artistic venture over the coming months.
The project aims to transform Art Central, the
gallery at the Town Hall in Barry, into a Sunflower Valley during
the summer holidays, with sunflowers made by local schools…. from a
load of rubbish.
Cameron and Chloe from Oakfield Primary School
in Barry are perfect smiling sunflowers!
The project is one in a series organised to
link the council’s waste awareness and arts development programmes.
Previous initiatives include the annual decoration of Penarth Pier
at Christmas and, in a national award-winning initiative, a giant
sweet inspired grotto at Dyffryn Gardens.
The projects are organised to encourage
children and adults alike to be creative and to raise awareness of
how everyday materials can be reused.
Sam Harrison, the Vale Council’s waste
awareness officer, said: “We’ll be asking our local schools to
reuse materials like paper and plastic to make giant sunflowers.
It’s a fun project to promote a serious message – we throw too much
away. This is one of the more unusual ways we promote our ‘What’s
in your bin?’ campaign, aiming to get us all thinking about
reducing, or as with this project, reusing and recycling.”
Pupils will reinforce the project’s green
message by using the petals of the sunflowers to write their
special promises of how they’re going to reduce, reuse and recycle
in their daily lives.
Tracey Harding, Vale Council arts development
officer added: “We’re delighted to be running another project that
enables our local children to use their imagination and creative
skills. Their unusual and eye catching creations will bring the
outdoor environment indoors at Art Central this summer.”