Kirkby’s Greenway Primary School was the site for an eco-greenhouse project, which used a design that has been adopted and promoted by Rotary clubs throughout the UK.

Volunteers from Central England Co-op worked with pupils, Kirkby Rotarians and their helpers to build a greenhouse using recycled plastic bottles instead of glass
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Bottoms were cut off the bottles, which were threaded on to canes.

The canes were then fixed to the wooden framework, which was built from a pre-cut kit.

The Co-op donated the cost of the framework and provided six volunteers who, alongside children from the school, worked with Rotarians and friends to finish the greenhouse in a day.

The 1,300 bottles required were collected by the school and local Co-op stores.

Greenway Primary welcomed the greenhouse as part of the national Green Flag Environmental Awards, which the school has won three times over the past six years.

The pupils will use the greenhouse to grow vegetables for the school kitchen.

Rotarian Melissa Blythe, Kirkby Rotary’s projects leader, said: “It’s an ideal example of community in action.

“Commerce is strongly involved through financial and hands-on support, education is served with the children learning about re-cycling and about growing food, and Kirkby Rotary fulfils it aim of actively working for the benefit of our local community.”