Author: Mr Craig

This is the lesson from Eco Schools that we did on Monday:

Litter is a serious problem.  It looks awful, affects our health and well-being and harms wildlife. 

Just in time for our annual Spring Clean Scotland campaign, we’re offering a live lesson all about Litter & Waste, with special guests from Scottish SPCA and Auchindrain Historic Township.  Join us with your class or Eco-Committee on 21st March for a full morning of workshops.  Lessons will be accompanied by classroom activities to do during the workshops and throughout the week and both sessions will be recorded for you to watch again later.

No one is too small to make a difference.

Here are our decomposition experiments:

Mrs Wheeler wrote to Simpsons Garden Centre in Mintlaw and this is their reply. Well done Mrs Wheeler and a big thanks to Simpsons.

Subject: ECO group, Green Flag Award

Good afternoon Victoria and thanks for getting in touch with us about your gardening plans for Arnage school with your ECO group. I would be delighted to give you some seeds towards your project, it’s the perfect time to start propagating to have ready in time for spring and summer. I will also be able to include a voucher to use in store towards other items for your project. All that we would ask is that you let us know how you’re getting on and send us pics of your project.

We don’t have a schools programme as such, but Becca from our team in Mintlaw is available if you want to pop in for any advice. Also as ambassadors for Cultivation Street, I would recommend also having a look at their website for inspiration and resources for your project. You can also register and enter their annual competition for school and community garden projects, visit their website at: https://cultivationstreet.com

If you can confirm the postal address for the school, I’ll have these items posted to you asap.

Kind regards

Siobhan MacBean, Simpsons, Mintlaw

Marketing Manager | Customer Care | Community

 

Well done Mrs Wheeler. She applied for the school to get some bee bombs and was successful.  We’ll be getting a whole load of wild flower seeds to plant in our wildlife garden.

We were out in the cold (and the rain for a bit) this afternoon. Got the whole school out and spotted 10 different species of bird in the end. Great effort.

She made these great posters to encourage everyone to do the Big Garden Birdwatch last weekend. We are going to do the Big Schools Birdwatch in the next few weeks.

We’ve signed up to the nationwide scheme to plant a heritage apple tree for our school. We’re looking forward to planting it in March.

A messy business, preparing the Arnage wild bird banquet.

Arnage birds will be well fed and watered this winter:

Thanks for all your donations.

Don’t forget, the Big Garden Birdwatch is on between 28th -30th January too, if you want to take part at home?

If you have any of these things can you bring them in to school please (so we can make bird kebabs and apple feeders, pine cone feeders, water feeders and other food feeders)?

Fruit like apples or melons

Raisins

Nuts

Seeds (especially sunflower seeds)

Bird Food

Dried fruit

Cheese

Old bread

Lard

Pine cones

Large plastic yoghurt pots and an old saucers (to make bird water feeders)

Large clear plastic drinks bottles (to make feeders)

Today we are planning for the Big Schools Birdwatch. We are going to work out what we need to do make it work well and what we need to do before the day.

This page is useful for ideas of how to feed and water the birds:

RSPB Feeders ideas