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Children in the UCL Day Nursery are receiving an early-years education in different aspects of sustainable development, from biodiversity and energy to waste and recycling.

The听UCL Day听Nursery听embeds a 鈥楩orest School鈥� principle into its activities and听runs听a weekly Green Group to give the听early-years听children a working understanding of听their听effect on听their听environment.听

Children at 皇家华人 Day Nursery enjoy weekly 鈥楩orest School鈥� sessions where they take part in activities including mini-beast hunts, tree climbing, playing 鈥榣eaf detectives鈥� (identifying the trees and flora), and fat-ball making (for the bird feeders).听听

The children听also听investigate听how paper is made, recycling听their own paper for听Christmas听cards. 鈥淲e reflect听on how much paper we use during our day,鈥澨齟xplains Emma Rhymer (UCL Day Nursery).

鈥�鈥淲e concluded that recycling paper is much better than throwing it away,听but the children also began to understand that to create recycled paper still takes a lot of energy 鈥� and if they could reduce the amount of paper waste we create,听it would ultimately save resources and energy.鈥澨�

The Nursery听also听runs听planting throughout the year听to give the children an understanding of how food and crops are created, and听the significance of the oxygen听produced by plants.听鈥淭his year we had a good apple crop,鈥� says Emma. 鈥淭he children followed the growth from blossom to buds to apples.听We then picked them and听made apple crumble.鈥澨�

The children explore听the decomposition times for different materials. They discovered听plastic waste听听remained unchanged听in the time听it took听for听the fruit and vegetable waste to break down.听听