Morpeth pupils transform junk as part of recycling rally
PUPILS at schools in Morpeth are getting lessons on how to turn junk into useful items ahead of a recycling rally to be held in the town next month.
With the help of artists, musicians, dancers and fashion designers, youngsters at eight schools are finding out how household rubbish can be given a new lease of life.
At a series of workshops they are making everything from plastic flowers and cardboard vases to fashionable clothes and musical instruments.
They are also writing songs and learning dances to perform at the recycling rally next Friday at the town's King Edward VI School.
The rally is being organised by the Greater Morpeth Development Trust
in partnership with Castle Morpeth Borough and Northumberland County Councils.
Schools involved in the workshops are Collingwood, Morpeth First, Chantry and Newminster Middles and St Robert's, Stobhillgate, All Saints and Abbeyfields Firsts.
Artists Elaine Porter and Kerryann Bell, from Eventful North East, have been working with youngsters from Morpeth First, making all sort of decorative items from household waste the children have brought to school.
Elaine said: "What we are trying to show them is that practically everything considered waste can be turned into something useful or decorative.
"All the items that we are using come from their own homes and would otherwise just have been thrown away.''
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