The whole school put on their community spirits today as part of their Eco School responsibilities.\u00a0 We all carried out a litter pick in the village with the support of family and friends.\u00a0 The children got stuck in making the place spike and span.\u00a0 They used their eagle eyes to spot and safely collect litter using the litter pickers provided by Kelly Monteith of the local council.<\/p>\n
The boys and girls then applied their maths skills to calculate the weight of litter collected.\u00a0 We problem solved by weighing a willing pupil before and whilst holding the litter collected.\u00a0 The children then found the ‘difference’ by taking away.\u00a0 We found we had gathered 5kg of litter on our clean up.\u00a0 We talked about what fraction the litter weight was in relation to the pupil’s weight and converted the figure to a percentage.<\/p>\n
This clean up is part of a wider trio litter action event organised by Mrs McHarg.<\/p>\n
#Effective Contributors.<\/p>\n\n
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