A group of children from Richmond School got together with teacher and game developer Bob Reynolds to play board games and show their concerns about the environment.
The students are part of the school’s conservation group and they were introduced to an updated version of ‘The Conservation Game’, which was created by Bob in 1976.The goal is to stimulate the children to be aware of environmental issues while they are having fun.
The children also participated in an environmental poster competition. Bob, with Neil and Anne Page who lead Native Bird Recovery Richmond, were the judges at the ‘Conservation Stand Project’. They selected 17 posters made by the students and granted all of them with special prizes.
“We made these posters and it’s about keeping our world tidy, and we made a competition of it,” says 10-year old Aurora Robertson. “My poster was about ‘Go for green and don’t litter’. I wanted people to think about what they’ve done with their rubbish because one piece of rubbish can affect everyone’s life”, she says.
Ryan McGlinchuy is 11-years old and he won a ‘New Zealand’s Birds’ book as a special prize for the most colourful poster. “It’s a pretty good prize and I liked it because birds are my favourite animal,” he says.