Pupils turn film-makers to highlight recycling views

Young moviemakers from two of the borough's schools are to show off their work to an audience at Rochdale town hall on Thursday 28 June.

Pupils from Woodland Primary School in Heywood and Deeplish Primary School in Rochdale were given the task of creating their own DVDs with environmental and recycling themes.

Among the audience will be parents, councillors and officials from paper company UPM Shotton. The company collects recycled newspapers and magazines from the borough and manufactures newsprint from it, used in the production of local newspapers.

The aim is that the recycling message and general environmental theme the DVDs promote will reach a wider audience when they are made available to other schools and to local libraries.

As well as premiering their DVDs the pupils will be performing their own rap poetry and displaying their artwork, also created as part of their projects.

Posters and other artwork produced during the project will be on display at the town hall on the day. Councillor Wera Hobhouse, the Council's Cabinet Member for Environment and Sustainability will be judging the best recycling poster from each school and prizes will be awarded.