Month: November 2014

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ECO Green Flag Assesment

Today Paula from Eco schools Scotland came to see if our we could keep all four of our green flags.  She said our school is very tidy and she would like to come again. The committee gave Paula a tour of our school grounds. In the hall we had stuff set up for Paula we showed Paula our Eco power point, some of our old endeavour files and some of our new endeavour files, we also showed her primary one and two homemade paper that they made all by their selves. During play time we had healthy soup and we also had a book swap. We have now found out we have our 5th green flag!  Well done Port Ellen!

By Annie and Ciara 🙂

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Beach Clean

On Friday we all went down to the beach for a beach clean.  The storms last week had uncovered lots of plastic bags down near the water line but within an hour the beach was looking good again.

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Eco Update

1. Oliver welcomed us all.

2. Mirren was off.

3. our progress- w have made our signs. We have done our spot checks in the classes. We have got our litter police set up an will be changing them every week. we thought about fair trade and we might set up a sample week to see who like what the best.

4. Action plan- litter police problem- sign on the pitch almost one- Start a new action point which is reduce the amount of water waste in water bottles.

5. Go out side and plan what we are going to say.

6. next meeting to be discussed.

7. itinerary for lady coming on monday

meet her

action plan

tour round school

go in to classes

break

book swap

soup

display

By Annie May Farrell- Secretary

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P1/2 Litter Survey

P1/2 went round and picked up all the litter from the playground and they made a survey about what they found.

  • 2 Cans
  • 1 Cole Bag
  • 2 Co-op Bags
  • 31 sweets and crisp packets
  • 15 Bottles
  • 1 Lighter

Now the playground is nice and clean.  We should all start picking up litter like P1/2.  They used some of the litter to make bird feeders

By Elizabeth Macmillan

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P1/2 Bird Feeders

Primary 1/2 from Port Ellen Primary school made bird food and feeders for the birds as a Christmas present. To make the bird food that they used Lard, seeds, dried pineapple, raisins, mix, the then used pine cone hanging with string to put the bird food mix on it. They then made bird feeders for their food using bottles that were found on their litter pick one day. They made them by putting a hole in the top where they threaded through some string to hang it up. They then decorated it by wrapping a piece of paper around the bottle which let them draw christmas picture using felt tip.  It was GREAT FUN! 🙂

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Gardening and making soup

On Wednesday 19th November our class, (p7) went down to the front of the school where they cleared and tidied the raised beds ready for Winter. During the digging we pulled up lots of lovely parsnips which Emma will make into soup.  Yum Yum!

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ECO Update

1. Oliver welcomed us all.

2. Scott and jasmine were off

3. Our progress- We have done our pitch posters, chosen our litter police for the week then we will change it every week and we have also started doing spot checks in the class to see if the classes are putting their rubbish in the right bins.

4. At our next meeting we will discuss what we have done and say what we did.

5. We have written our ideas down for the green flag assessment and all the classes have a job to do.

6.We are thinking of doing some fund raising to make money.  We are thinking of buying bags to sell and do some fair trade tuck.

7. All of the classes are taking part in getting the school ready for the assessment.

8. The date of our next meeting is Thursday 20th November.

9. At our next meeting we are going to get ready for the assessment.

By Annie- secretary

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Transient Art

At their Joint Sessions, the Pre-5 unit and P1/2 have been learning about the 3rs – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.  They enjoyed making fabulous pictures using their unusual art materials – straws, pompoms, beads, lolly sticks….but no glue!  This means that the material is not wasted but reused each time.  Children took pictures of their art instead.

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Eco superheroes

The Pre-5 unit and P1/2 made their own Eco Superheroes that are going to save the world.  They discovered that they can be eco-heroes too and decided what they could do to help the planet.  Check out their ideas on the noticeboard….and add your own. Look out for the Green Eco Hero in nursery!

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