Youngsters have been busy in the sunshine recently celebrating the upcoming one-year anniversary of Creation Care Workshops.

Chacewater Community Primary School pupils were in the grounds of their local church, St Paul, helping to plant and care for nature.

Hands holding a seed tray with green shoots growing out from it.The session was being filmed to mark it being nearly 12 months since the workshops launched. They began in June and July, 2024, at Illogan Church, Chacewater Church, All Saints Highertown and Trinity Church, Truro.

Clare Green, the diocese’s Schools’ Creation Care Officer, created the programme around Creation Care for church members to help engage and build links between themselves and schools.

The programme also provides schools with a resource which covers and builds on the Cornwall RE Syllabus – which all county schools are expected to follow.

 

Clare said: “We have been thrilled at how popular the workshops have been. The children we have worked with have all loved the activities, and the teachers have been pleased with the way they tie in so well with the RE and Science curricula.

“The thing I enjoy most is seeing relationships grow between churches and their local schools as they work together to cherish creation.”

More than 12 workshops have taken place over the past 12 months – with more than seven schools (all non-church schools).  More than 500 children have taken part, many who may have never visited their local church before.