PUPILS from every year group at Greenacres Primary Academy, in Oldham are exploring local and global issues surrounding sustainability.

It comes as the school on Dunkerley Street strives to achieve the Primary Geography Quality Mark.

Pupils in Year 6 are debating the Knowls Lane housing development in Springhead, while Year 2 students are learning about fair trade.

Meanwhile children in Year 3 compared wildfires at Dovestone and California, pupils in Year 4 surveyed traffic trends around Greenacres Road and reception learned how to balance on two wheels with Bikeability.

Focusing on the environment, children in Year 1 went out and removed litter from a nearby park, while Year 5 pupils studied the effects of plastic pollution across the world.

Vice Principal, Tim Roach said: “The Covid pandemic and lockdowns have not diminished our aim to provide the pupils we teach with a first-rate education.

“As well as teaching an exciting and knowledge-rich curriculum, we regularly have special curriculum focus days and weeks relating to a specific subject, event or celebration.”

The school holds special curriculum focus days and weeks relating to a specific subject, event or celebration. Pupils recently learned about the First World War, Oldham’s Annie Kenney and the Suffragettes.

Artists from across the world are also celebrated and during lockdown the school held a music enrichment day. A poetry festival with a visiting poet and illustrator is also held annually.