{"id":13189,"date":"2023-03-15T14:38:34","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T14:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=13189"},"modified":"2023-03-15T19:30:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T19:30:18","slug":"keep-scotland-beautiful-community-litter-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=13189","title":{"rendered":"Keep Scotland Beautiful Community Litter Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our responsible pupils took part in a community litter pick today.\u00a0 Despite the driech weather, the children were enthusiastic and keen to help protect wildlife and keep our beaches clean.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry Monteith, Ward Officer Stranraer and the Rhins, helped organise the event as part of the <i>Keep Scotland Beautiful &#8211; Spring Clean Month <\/i>with the aim of carrying out as many spring cleans across Stranraer and the Rhins as possible in March.\u00a0 It was a real community initiative as we were joined by Brenda and Helen, volunteers from Onus SW Scotland (Oceans Need Us) too, linking in with our Eco Schools Litter target. The spring clean activities are a collective action between<\/p>\n<p>We rootled amongst the seaweed and managed to gather a surprising amount of plastic rope, twine, broken shards of plastic and wrappers.\u00a0 It was amazing how much was there.<\/p>\n<p>We are doing our bit to help our community and the planet too!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2023\/03\/15143625\/333267668_735710061562798_7281286841988453209_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13214\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2023\/03\/15143625\/333267668_735710061562798_7281286841988453209_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2023\/03\/15143625\/333267668_735710061562798_7281286841988453209_n-300x225.jpg 300w, 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href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2023\/03\/15143636\/333128584_153854080914052_2916993238715899078_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13217\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2023\/03\/15143636\/333128584_153854080914052_2916993238715899078_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2023\/03\/15143636\/333128584_153854080914052_2916993238715899078_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2023\/03\/15143636\/333128584_153854080914052_2916993238715899078_n-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2023\/03\/15143636\/333128584_153854080914052_2916993238715899078_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2023\/03\/15143636\/333128584_153854080914052_2916993238715899078_n-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2023\/03\/15143636\/333128584_153854080914052_2916993238715899078_n.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a># Responsible Citizens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our responsible pupils took part in a community litter pick today.\u00a0 Despite the driech weather, the children were enthusiastic and keen to help protect wildlife and keep our beaches clean. Kerry Monteith, Ward Officer Stranraer and the Rhins, helped organise the event as part of the Keep Scotland Beautiful &#8211; Spring Clean Month with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=13189\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Keep Scotland Beautiful Community Litter Pick&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11913,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13189"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13220,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13189\/revisions\/13220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}