We're often reminded of the importance of protecting the planet as we see it for future generations — and children at St Oswald's CE Primary School Chester certainly agree.
Nine-year-old Isohel Kelleher from the school's Hummingbirds class thinks adults need to take notes. "Sometimes they can be busy and I don't think they think they can make a difference, but if everyone does a little bit it all adds up," she tells Huff Post UK. "We started looking at plastic pollution in our oceans and the things like plastic bags that are polluting them, " she says. "Fish can eat the plastic and they can die, or we might even eat the fish ourselves. ”
Mr Timms, Isohel's teacher, has been leading a new project at the school which lets children loose creatively to raise the awareness of the need to be more environmentally friendly. The entire Hummingbirds class, which is made up of nine-year-old and ten-year-old pupils, has been busy writing poems and creating online videos to warn adults about the serious situation of our oceans and wildlife.
Mr Timms thinks children play an important role in teaching us how to take care of the things around us. "We sometimes overlook how much we can really learn from children," he says. "It is really hard to believe having parents come in saying that their children have been asking them to stop using plastic and to recycle more, and even stopping them using plastic straws. ”
Mr Timms is proud of his Hummingbirds class. "The message that they would like to send to the world is simple: stopping this isn't someone else's job, and it won't be OK if we just leave it."
【小题1】What does Isobel Kelleher mean in paragraph 2?A.People shouldn't eat fish any more. |
B.Adults have done their part pretty well. |
C.Everyone can do something to stop pollution. |
D.Plastic pollution is already too serious to be solved. |
A.By preventing people using plastic bags. |
B.By picking up waste plastic in oceans in person. |
C.By teaching students to write poems creatively. |
D.By warning adults about the pollution with poems and videos. |
A.The project has already proved effective. |
B.Some parents are angry with the project. |
C.Children are good at looking after parents. |
D.Adults ought to learn little from their kids. |
A.Using plastic straws. | B.Plastic pollution. |
C.Protecting the planet. | D.The Hummingbirds class. |