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Power Down

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We are taking part in East Ayrshire Council’s Power Down initiative. 

 

 

We have been working really hard on monthly energy reducing challenges in school and are the Challenge of the Month winners.

 

Windy’s Top Tips are great ways that we can also reduce energy at school and at home! Perhaps some of these can help reduce our carbon footprint and our energy bills!!

Dinnae Forget your Caddy

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Please help us raise our community caddy count by naming and registering your family’s food caddy. And remember…there’s a monthly prize draw from February to May!

  • Choose a name for your family’s kerbside caddy. Write your chosen name on the lid/front of your kerbside caddy.
  • Let us know the name of your caddy by registering it here (this will take 1 minute!) Your child received a letter with a QR code too. 
  • Recycle your food waste at home, present your caddy for collection each week and enter your school recycling monthly prize draw – click here to find out when your caddy collection day is!
  • Can you share your knowledge and encourage anyone else to recycle their food waste too and help to raise your Community Caddy Count? 

Thank you for your support!

‘Be Safe Be Seen’ Day

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‘Be Safe Be Seen’ Day is on Friday 22nd November.
 
We want to encourage all pupils to wear something bright on their journeys to and from school. Remember bright, fluorescent and especially reflective clothing is so important when the days become darker!
Children are welcome to dress down and wear bright colours on Friday 22nd.

 

Dinnae Forget Your Caddy!

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Cairey the Caddy is back!!

Help us fight climate change and be in with the chance of winning a £50 East Ayrshire gift card.

A whopping 69% of food waste in East Ayrshire is not being recycled.

To encourage more people to recycle their food waste, the EAC Sustainability & Climate Change Team has launched a new recycling at home campaign – Dinnae forget your Caddy!

The campaign was successfully rolled out last year in schools and ECCs across East Ayrshire but now the team need your help to raise Community Caddy Counts.

Support the campaign by naming your caddy (Caddy McCaddyface is absolutely acceptable) and register the name online

Write the name in permanent marker on your caddy, then all you have to do is present your caddy each week to be entered into the ‘Favourite Caddy of the Month’ draw.

The monthly draw will run from November through to May, and the recycling crews will select one ‘named’ caddy at random to win a £50 East Ayrshire gift card.

You could also encourage your neighbours, family and friends to take part in the campaign and make it a bit competitive. Let us know if you encourage anyone to start recycling

EAC Waste crews will begin monitoring the number and names/designs of kerbside caddies from 4th November.

At the end of November, EAC Sustainability & Climate Change team will let you know:

  • which family has been selected as ‘Favourite Caddy of the Month’ (we’ll get in touch with the winning centre/school and make arrangements to present the winning prize and certificate to your winning family)
  • number of new Caddies requested by your families
  • number of caddy names registered by your families
  • number of caddy buddies made.

Thank you for your support!

 

SHOOT TO SATURN

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We have registered for East Ayrshire Council’s Shoot To Saturn active travel initiative for session 2024-25. A letter was sent out on the school app explaining the details and how it works. If you haven’t read it you can see a copy below –
We would love if you could help us collect as many S-miles (any walking/ cycling/ scooting/ park-and-stride journeys to school and home again) as we can in our quest to Shoot To Saturn! You can also record Bonus s-miles (any additional journey to the school e.g. delivering a packed lunch box, collecting your child for an appointment, walking to the shop when you usually take the car, walking the dog, etc) by scanning the QR code below or on the poster at the reception.
We will keep you updated with how many S-miles we are collecting on our journey, so look out on the blog for more information!
Thank you for your support!

Mauchline PS Active Travellers

Clean Green Award

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We are delighted that we have gained our EAC Clean Green Award. We gained a Bronze Highly Commended Award and a Special Recognition Award for all of our hard work this year. Kayla and Sophie received our awards and certificates at the award ceremony at Loudoun Academy. They represented our school and Eco committee. They have been hard working Waste Warriors, helping reduce the amount of food waste in the dinner hall.

We also received our Green Flag from Keep Scotland Beautiful which will be proudly hung in our school.

 

 

Big Walk and Wheel week

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Just a reminder that we are taking part in the
Big Walk and Wheel to School this week (18th -22nd March).
Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel 2024 is the challenge’s 15th year and we would love you to take part and help make it the largest and most successful one yet.

 

Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel is the UK’s largest inter-school walking, wheeling, scooting and cycling challenge. It inspires pupils to make active journeys to school, improve air quality in their neighbourhood and discover how these changes benefit their world.

The event aims to encourage more families to travel to school actively and help create healthier and happier communities.

This is also a great opportunity to boost our S-miles on our Journey to Jupiter too!! Remember we count all family members who are walking, cycling and scooting to school for our Bonus S-miles!