The whole school put on their community spirits today as part of their Eco School responsibilities. We all carried out a litter pick in the village with the support of family and friends. The children got stuck in making the place spike and span. They used their eagle eyes to spot and safely collect litter using the litter pickers provided by Kelly Monteith of the local council.
The boys and girls then applied their maths skills to calculate the weight of litter collected. We problem solved by weighing a willing pupil before and whilst holding the litter collected. The children then found the ‘difference’ by taking away. We found we had gathered 5kg of litter on our clean up. We talked about what fraction the litter weight was in relation to the pupil’s weight and converted the figure to a percentage.
This clean up is part of a wider trio litter action event organised by Mrs McHarg.
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