{"id":595,"date":"2015-09-01T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=595"},"modified":"2015-09-01T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T15:20:00","slug":"garden-gang-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=595","title":{"rendered":"Garden Gang in action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #00ff00\"><em>This week Atticus, Max, Charlene and Tracy have been lending a hand with the weeding in the school grounds.\u00a0 Over the summer there was a tremendous amount of growth which resulted in the weeds getting out of control.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ff00\"><em>Today we had a real help in the form of Mr Alec Ross. Mr Ross came armed with his strimmer and tackled &#8220;the mound&#8221; cutting back the grass and disposing of ragwort.\u00a0 He then completed the weeding and moved away all the rubbish and clutter which had gathered up at the pupil entrance.\u00a0 <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ff00\"><em>Some of the senior boys popped outside and gave Mr Ross a hand for an hour or two &#8211; they were up and down the playground with wheelbarrows and were a real hardworking team &#8211; and they were even rewarded with a pay packet from Mr Ross for their assistance!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ff00\"><em>Mr Ross was at school from 9am until after 2pm &#8211; and was rewarded for all his hard work with a plate of mince an tatties from Barbara at lunch time <span style=\"color: #00ff00\">to keep his energy up!<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ff00\"><em>Great work!<\/em><\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/files\/2015\/09\/SAM_4770.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-596\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/files\/2015\/09\/SAM_4770-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"SAM_4770\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week Atticus, Max, Charlene and Tracy have been lending a hand with the weeding in the school grounds.\u00a0 Over the summer there was a tremendous amount of growth which resulted in the weeds getting out of control. Today we had a real help in the form of Mr Alec Ross. Mr Ross came armed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=595\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Garden Gang in action&#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-595","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\/595","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=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}