A small primary school is spearheading a green revolution that could spread across the nation and overseas.

The Star, Sheffield

Twelve months ago, Anston Greenlands head teacher Alex Wirth launched a 'rewilding' initiative encouraging schools to help the environment by restoring nature back to its basic form and creating homes for wildlife.

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00:00My name is Charlie Street and I think of rewilding as a sort of, because all the grass has been

00:09cut down, and all the trees and things, so we're trying to get them back so that it's

00:13good for the animals.

00:14Hi, my name is Olivia Redd and I like rewilding because it's good for all the animals.

00:28Hello, my name is Jayden Bolton. I think of rewilding as like our last hope for the planet

00:40because of all the pollution and all the smoke going up into the air, making our climate,

00:47I don't know.

00:48Hello, my name is Jacob Deville. I think of rewilding as a, well, basically we want bees

00:55to be on our grounds, and the more rewilding we have, the more bees, that means we'll have

01:01more pollinators around, and hopefully that will make our grounds better, and it's not

01:06just our school, but other schools too will be involved, and eventually, hopefully, we'll

01:10have lots of pollinators around and the grounds will look better, a lot better.

01:15Hello, I'm Harriet Oldham. I think of rewilding as a help for nature, so we can get the bees

01:23and bugs up and running again and help with the environment.

01:28And do you like rewilding?

01:30Hello, I'm Chris Buckling. I like rewilding because I feel like it would be the only thing

01:38that could save us from extinction.

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