Junkbusters

“An interactive eco-play for kids”

Join Brad Shimmer Green, Professor Plastic and Polly Styrene from the Planet Landfill as they embark on a mission to introduce the environmentally sound Herbaceous Slob to a cleaner greener lifestyle. Full of comedy, audience participation and silly eyeballs on stalks, the performance uses aliens and a game show format to encourage youngsters to think about recycling – ‘Reduce, Reuse and Recycle’.
Workshop – With a mixture of recycled materials participants can create their own artistic masterpiece. The workshop will include a chance to discuss and explore environmental issues and the importance of recycling.

• Suitable for Early Year Foundation Stage
• Suitable for Key Stages 2 and 3
• National Curriculum Targets

Citizenship
The performance and workshop will encourage pupils to consider their attitudes towards environmental issues and recycling.

Making real choices and decisions
   Pupils will be encouraged to:
• Discuss their opinions and share their views on environmental issues that affect themselves and society
• Make responsible choices, set personal goals and take action
• Understand how they can develop skills to make their own contribution in the future

Preparing to play an active role as citizens
• Showing young people how they can contribute in helping to preserve the environment

Feel positive about themselves
• Recognising what they can do and how much responsibility they can take
• Helping pupils to gain confidence about themselves and in their ability.

Literacy

Group discussion and interaction
• To talk effectively as members of a group
• To make contributions relevant to the topic and take turns in discussion
• To qualify or justify what they think after listening to others' questions or accounts
•To deal politely with opposing points of view and enable discussion to move on
• To responding to performances
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