{"id":1953,"date":"2017-02-10T11:36:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T11:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2017-02-10T11:36:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T11:36:38","slug":"portpatrick-primary-eco-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=1953","title":{"rendered":"Portpatrick Primary Eco award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #339966\"><em>After two years of hard work, Portpatrick Primary School has successfully renewed its Eco-Schools Green Flag Award status.\u00a0 The school has to select three of ten elements each year, one of which must always be litter.\u00a0 Portpatrick Primary received special commendation for linking their Eco-School\u2019s Action Plans to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966\"><em>\u00a0Eco Schools Scotland reported that an \u2018eco\u2019 culture is well integrated into the school\u2019s learning and wider achievement curriculum.\u00a0\u00a0 Pupils were led through this renewal Eco Schools work by the p5\/6\u00a0teacher, Ms Whorlow.\u00a0The pupils sustained the Green flag status\u00a0through a range of classroom and outdoor activities such as raising money for charity and working with organisations such as Surfers Against Sewage and Scottish Water .\u00a0 Portpatrick Primary was also warmly commended for promoting Fairtrade learning in the school and for their community litter picks and beach clean activities.\u00a0 Steven Harland, of Eco Schools Scotland, commented that\u00a0the \u00a0pupils of Portpatrick\u00a0are truly responsible citizens.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966\"><em>Photograph shows the pupils of Portpatrick Primary, proudly holding their Eco flag in the school playground<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/files\/2017\/02\/IMG_4085.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1954\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/files\/2017\/02\/IMG_4085-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"img_4085\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After two years of hard work, Portpatrick Primary School has successfully renewed its Eco-Schools Green Flag Award status.\u00a0 The school has to select three of ten elements each year, one of which must always be litter.\u00a0 Portpatrick Primary received special commendation for linking their Eco-School\u2019s Action Plans to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.\u00a0 \u00a0Eco &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=1953\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Portpatrick Primary Eco award&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":640,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1953","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\/1953","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\/640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1955,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions\/1955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}