It’s been a while since we’ve updated this page but we have been very busy!
LITTER
We carried out a survey to find out if we have a litter problem in our school.
We asked Mr King, our janitor, to stop picking up litter for a whole week and each day a class went out to pick up litter to see how much litter was being dropped each day by pupils at break time.
It was quite a surprise for us to learn that we do have a litter problem as nearly 2Kg of litter was collected over the week, most of it plastic bottles. This also showed us that Mr King does a fantastic job cleaning up litter.
The Eco-committee met on 21st September and came up with an action plan to lessen the litter in our playground.
- Create posters to remind people to put their rubbish in the bin or recycle it.
- Appoint litter monitors to remind people and monitor the litter each week
- Provide some additional bins for plastic bottle recycling.
- Do another week of litter picking next term to see if has improved.
SCHOOL GROUNDS
We have been awarded £500 from The Aberdeen Greenspaces Board to create a wildlife garden in our grounds.
This will be created over the next 3 terms with an official opening in June 2016. We hope this will be an area that will provide a rich learning area as well as providing wildlife with a home in our grounds.
If any of you have expertise in gardening, building, landscaping etc please contact Mrs Walker as your help would be greatly appreciated.
Next term, we plan to hold a grounds afternoon and invite parents to come along and help us to create pathways in the garden area. So look out your wellies and spades!
TRAFFIC & TRAVEL
There have been safety issues before and after school regarding parking. The Parent Council, Mrs Webb, the community wardens, the ECO Committee and the Staff and pupils from Holy Family School are all going to work together to find a solution to the parking problems. They will be creating a leaflet for parents to advise them on safe parking and also to provide them with information on Park & Stride options around the school.
The recent Hands Up Survey showed that we still have high levels of healthy travel to school. Last session we found out that P6 came 3rd in Scotland for cycle journeys to school over a selected week. This was fantastic news!
We are also hoping to get an additional cycle shelter for the senior end of the playground – we are waiting to find out if our application has been successful.
HEALTHY SCHOOLS
5 A-DAY-FRIDAY
On a Friday we encourage everyone to bring in a healthy snack. The numbers in each class are counted and the winning class is announced each week in assembly. The winning class also gets an extra playtime! It’s easy to have a healthy snack – we have a healthy tuckshop in school every Friday before 9am. Come along and see what we have to offer!
