Luckwell Primary School, Bristol Uk

A selection of art based responses to local environmental problems in different medium by Year 5 pupils from Luckwell Primary School.

"Year 5 at Luckwell Primary School have been involved in many environmental projects during their time at the school, they currently run an Eco Club that organises recycling throughout the school. When they were approached about helping to create a website to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Rio summit, they immediately suggested an enormous number of ideas and design concepts. it was decided that the children wanted to follow a path that would have an immediate effect on their own local environment. Therefore, they decided to make pledges that they could follow for the rest of their lives.

This supports the 'Think global, act local' idea. The children's art work illustrates what they feel the environment would be like if they kept their pledge and if they did not keep their pledge. The work deliberately has very little writing as it is intended to appeal to as broad an audience as possible, crossing age, language and national boundaries.

It was a project that the class has been very commited to, and the entire school has been very interested in. We now hope that more people will agree with our pledges and either make their own or support ours."

Neil Woodcock