{"id":21276,"date":"2026-05-18T11:45:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/?p=21276"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:45:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:45:33","slug":"climate-smarter-sustainability-success-for-p4-7%f0%9f%a5%88%e2%ad%90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/2026\/05\/18\/climate-smarter-sustainability-success-for-p4-7%f0%9f%a5%88%e2%ad%90\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Smarter Sustainability Success for P4-7\ud83e\udd48\u2b50"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MailCompose\"><span style=\"color: #008000\">The results are in.. drumroll please&#8230;\ud83e\udd41<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008000\">Leswalt Primary are <i>RUNNERS UP!\ud83e\udd48<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008000\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008000\">Primary 4-7 wowed the judges with their creation of their &#8216;Sustainable School&#8217; which we are super proud of! The project has encouraged us to think about ways we could make Leswalt Primary a more sustainable building. We worked with sustainability experts McTaggart Construction and D&amp;G councils &#8216;Environmental Safety Officer&#8217; Cailtin (AKA Beathan&#8217;s Mummy) to really think about what &#8216;sustainability&#8217; means and things we could do to improve our school!\ud83d\ude03\u00a0The judges loved how everyone came together to contribute to the model and also how much we learned from meeting with local people who work in STEM careers! Our model stood out to the judges because of our super &#8216;Estate Agents&#8217; marketing pitch video clip, explaining the sustainable features of our school, filmed by our fabulous Hannah, Eilidh, Keira and Lily!\u2b50<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:76,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/2026\/05\/18\/climate-smarter-sustainability-success-for-p4-7%f0%9f%a5%88%e2%ad%90\/&quot;}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-21276 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/?attachment_id=21274'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/uploads\/sites\/76\/2026\/05\/18112957\/IMG_3928-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"21274\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/?attachment_id=21274\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/uploads\/sites\/76\/2026\/05\/18112957\/IMG_3928.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1260,945\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 13 Pro&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1779106501&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5.7&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016393442622951&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_3928\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/uploads\/sites\/76\/2026\/05\/18112957\/IMG_3928-300x225.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/uploads\/sites\/76\/2026\/05\/18112957\/IMG_3928-1024x768.jpeg\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/?attachment_id=21275'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/uploads\/sites\/76\/2026\/05\/18113057\/IMG_3800-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"21275\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/?attachment_id=21275\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/uploads\/sites\/76\/2026\/05\/18113057\/IMG_3800.png\" data-orig-size=\"1260,891\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_3800\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/uploads\/sites\/76\/2026\/05\/18113057\/IMG_3800-300x212.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/uploads\/sites\/76\/2026\/05\/18113057\/IMG_3800-1024x724.png\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008000\"><b><u>UNCRC Articles\u00a0<\/u><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008000\">Article 28 &#8211; Quality Education\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008000\"><b><u>Meta Skills<\/u><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008000\">Critical Thinking Chris<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008000\">Communicating Cate<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008000\">Collaborating Cora\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008000\">Focusing Fergus\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008000\">Initiative Ivy\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008000\">Sense Making Samira\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results are in.. drumroll please&#8230;\ud83e\udd41 Leswalt Primary are RUNNERS UP!\ud83e\udd48 \u00a0 Primary 4-7 wowed the judges with their creation of their &#8216;Sustainable School&#8217; which we are super proud of! The project has encouraged us to think about ways we could make Leswalt Primary a more sustainable building. We worked with sustainability experts McTaggart Construction &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/2026\/05\/18\/climate-smarter-sustainability-success-for-p4-7%f0%9f%a5%88%e2%ad%90\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Climate Smarter Sustainability Success for P4-7\ud83e\udd48\u2b50&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21731,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21731"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21277,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21276\/revisions\/21277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}