{"id":705,"date":"2025-05-28T08:23:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T07:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcowanprimaryschool\/?p=705"},"modified":"2025-11-27T11:55:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T11:55:28","slug":"world-environment-day-at-kirkcowan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcowanprimaryschool\/2025\/05\/28\/world-environment-day-at-kirkcowan\/","title":{"rendered":"World Environment Day at Kirkcowan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the children took part in a whole school assembly all about World Environmental Day 2025.\u00a0 The focus this year was all about Plastics and the new message of<\/p>\n<p>Refuse<\/p>\n<p>Reduce<\/p>\n<p>Reuse<\/p>\n<p>Recycle<\/p>\n<p>Re-think plastic use<\/p>\n<p>The children took part in some excellent discussions about the amount of plastic created each year (400 million tonnes per year) of which half is single use plastics and of that only 10% is actually recycled (The children enjoyed the mental maths questions too!)<\/p>\n<p>The children then watched a video about Microplastics and how they are affecting the seas, rivers and lochs.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the assembly, the children agreed a mini action plan which included:<\/p>\n<p>Pick up some litter if you are at the beach<\/p>\n<p>Recycle as much as we can<\/p>\n<p>Make sure we put our rubbish in the bin<\/p>\n<p>Do a litter pick<\/p>\n<p>Take your rubbish home<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt alignnone size-medium wp-image-706\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcowanprimaryschool\/uploads\/sites\/8883\/2025\/05\/28082255\/aba4d968-fdc5-4fec-b977-5262b595b28a-images-that-show-the-extentent-of-damage-plastic-oceans-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcowanprimaryschool\/uploads\/sites\/8883\/2025\/05\/28082255\/aba4d968-fdc5-4fec-b977-5262b595b28a-images-that-show-the-extentent-of-damage-plastic-oceans-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcowanprimaryschool\/uploads\/sites\/8883\/2025\/05\/28082255\/aba4d968-fdc5-4fec-b977-5262b595b28a-images-that-show-the-extentent-of-damage-plastic-oceans-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcowanprimaryschool\/uploads\/sites\/8883\/2025\/05\/28082255\/aba4d968-fdc5-4fec-b977-5262b595b28a-images-that-show-the-extentent-of-damage-plastic-oceans.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Use less single use plastics<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words\"><strong>UNCRC Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"[&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc space-y-2.5 pl-7\">\n<li class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">Article 29 (Goals of education &#8211; developing respect for the natural environment)<\/li>\n<li class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">Article 24 (Health &#8211; right to a clean environment)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words\"><strong>SDGs:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"[&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc space-y-2.5 pl-7\">\n<li class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">SDG 13 (Climate Action)<\/li>\n<li class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">SDG 14 (Life Below Water)<\/li>\n<li class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">SDG 15 (Life on Land)<\/li>\n<li class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the children took part in a whole school assembly all about World Environmental Day 2025.\u00a0 The focus this year was all about Plastics and the new message of Refuse Reduce Reuse Recycle Re-think plastic use The children took part in some excellent discussions about the amount of plastic created each year (400 million tonnes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13004,"featured_media":706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-rights-respecting-school","category-concerning-whole-school-learning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcowanprimaryschool\/uploads\/sites\/8883\/2025\/05\/28082255\/aba4d968-fdc5-4fec-b977-5262b595b28a-images-that-show-the-extentent-of-damage-plastic-oceans.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcowanprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcowanprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcowanprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcowanprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcowanprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcowanprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1371,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcowanprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/1371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcowanprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcowanprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcowanprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcowanprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}