Springwood High School joined forces with Blackfield Creatives to play a part in the ‘Meadow of Hope’ community-based art project.

The brainchild of  Blackfield Creatives director Tim Mann, in collaboration with the West Norfolk Youth Advisory Board, the initiative takes flowers crafted by students from plastic bottles to form a growing installation that will be displayed at different participating schools on a journey around the region.

Springwood’s involvement was organised by the chair of our Environment Committee, Agnieszka Munns, who held a competition to determine which students took part in the flower-crafting workshops, led by Mr Mann on a visit to the school.

“We had 60 students taking part, including Environment Ambassadors,” Mrs Munns explained.

“I decided to involve Year 8 students in this project, as part of enrichment; however, as we could not involve everyone in the Meadow of Hope project, I decided to run a simple form-time competition.

“All Year 8 students were provided with a card to create a simple answer on why is plastic pollution bad and how can we stop it?”

She continued: “The outcome was either to design a logo, a slogan, draw a picture, or write a poem, in answer to that question.”

Members of the Environment Society chose 60 entries who were invited to participate in the workshop to craft flowers from single-use plastic bottles. The students created 120 flowers which will become part of the touring Meadow of Hope installation, with the artwork due to be completed later this spring.

Mrs Munns added: “It is hoped that the Meadow of Hope installation and the students’ personal written responses will continue to focus minds on the important issue they aim to address: we can all do more to reduce plastic consumption and the resulting pollution plastic so often causes.”

Other environmental initiatives coming up at Springwood include the Big School Clean later this month and the Big Dig Two in November.