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Hundreds of bottle tops are being reused at Silverdale School.
Silverdale School aims to progress its reputation as a committed Enviroschool with two murals currently under construction.
Teacher Cheryl Knapp encouraged students to collect plastic milk bottle tops for the whole of last term so that they could be reused to create a large mural of the school’s logo.
Residents of Maygrove Village somehow heard about the project and also contributed their bottle lids.
A small group of students had the time consuming job of sorting the tops into colours and the process of gluing hundreds of bottle tops onto the logo design on a 2.5m-long plywood board is underway.
Cheryl says she hopes that the mural, currently around 80 percent complete, will help the school move forward with its environmental focus – currently it is a bronze level Enviroschool.
At the same time, a group of Year 8 students are in the process of creating a large painted mural, also based on the school’s logo, which has an interactive purpose.
This mural will be hung in a prominent position, so that students can place their ideas for Enviroschool projects on it, written on an egg-shaped piece of paper. As the ideas are completed, the egg will be replaced by an image of a native bird.
