Portpatrick pupils participated in a day of Climate Ready Classroom activities, as part of our ongoing Eco Schools work. This was a whole day event of online sessions and follow-up activities that schools right across Dumfries & Galloway took part in.
During the morning session, we learned all about what climate change is and why it is happening. Pupils went on a hunt around the school for different emissions and Atticus got dressed up in as many items of clothing as possible to demonstrate how greenhouse gases are affecting the planet.
Between break and lunch, the focus was on how climate change affects biodiversity. Pupils went outside and used string to create a food web to demonstrate how everything is interconnected. They then worked in groups to complete a scavenger hunt, identifying things in the playground that breaks down plant waste, things that produce oxygen, etc. Pupils had to stop and use their senses to also find something that had an interesting texture, an interesting sound and something that looked beautiful – to which Lewis identified himself!!!
Our afternoon session looked at how we can take action to help climate change. Pupils brainstormed the various things that we could do at Portpatrick Primary to reduce climate change and we developed a school action plan to take forwards.
We had a fun day learning all about climate change and are looking forwards to carrying out our action plan to help make a difference.
