As part of our Clean Green Schools accreditation, we are continuing with our active travel to school initiative. This time we are collecting S-Miles to travel to Saturn, collecting Cosmic Crystals on the way! If we collect enough, we will be presented with our very own Cosmic Crystal to display in school!
Help us by encouraging active travel to school where possible! Open the letter below for more information.
A huge thank you to all of you who completed our Parent Council Road Safety surveys.
Your views and comments are extremely important and will be collated to support us as we move forward in addressing the road safety concerns around our school.
Our Clean Green Transport Team gathered all the completed forms and input them to a random generator to select the winner of the £30 Aldi voucher. And the winner is…
Iniya P (P3/4)
A huge thank you to Ian McMeekin for spearheading this campaign.
The Parent Council and Clean Green Transport Team will be taking their concerns and views of our parent body to a Community Council meeting next week. Stay tuned on our progress with this.
We have successfully applied to Tesco Stronger Starts Grants, with the aim of using the funding to create new living and growing spaces within our school grounds, creating a safe hub for nature and growing our own food produce.
You will see this in our local Tesco in Auchinleck. We would really appreciate your votes to help secure this funding!
Today, our Accreditation Rich Tasks groups participated in Windy’s Earth Hour by getting outside and enjoying lots of screen free fun together!
We felt it was important that everyone got involved, in order to spread the Earth Hour message, not just our Clean Green Team. It was great to see so many children having fun outside with not a piece of technology to be found!
(Apart from Mrs McNulty’s phone making an appearance to capture the proof! Ha!)
The official Earth Hour is tomorrow, Saturday 23rd March at 8.30pm.
We ask that for 1 hour tomorrow evening, our families take time to switch off and dedicate an hour to help bring our world back to life. You can do this in any way you like, by spending 60 minutes doing something positive for our planet. Need inspiration? Click on the link below to view some ideas.
Give an Hour for Earth | Earth Hour
If you choose to take part, please evidence what you choose to do and upload it as a Parental Contribution to your child’s Learning Journal. We will showcase these entries at Monday’s Get Together and award house points to all our participants.
Parents/carers,
Yesterday each family received a letter invite them to name and register their food caddy as part of East Ayrshire’s ‘Dinnae Forget Your Caddy’ competition.
Children are reminded to return the tear off slip at the bottom by tomorrow to be entered in the prize draw, to have their name given to our school caddy. There is £20 East Ayrshire voucher up for grabs!
Each week, children will be working hard to share the message of the importance of recycling our food waste at home and each time they let us know that they have put their kerbside caddy out for collection at home, they will receive a token which will be added to a prize draw which will take place each month to won a £10 East Ayrshire voucher!
Let’s work together to increase our Community Caddy Count!
Parents/carers,
We are continuing to encourage our young people to walk, cycle, scoot or park and stride to school as part of our Journey to Jupiter challenge in partnership with Clean Green East Ayrshire.
We will continue to log S-Miles gained by those who have travelled to school in an environmentally friendly manner each day. These results are then sent away to the Clean Green EA team who will collate the results of all participating schools in the local authority in the hope that we gain enough S-Miles to power our rocket all the way to Jupiter!
As we shared previously, we have concerns with the dangerous parking we have witnessed around our school grounds which makes it difficult for our children to safely use the footpaths around our school.
Click on the link below to our previous post which highlighted the 5 safe car parks within walking distance of our school which we encourage all our families to use when travelling by car.
Please listen to the message from our young people to help keep everybody safe and healthy as we encourage environmentally friendly travel to school!
Parents/carers, we need your help!
We are trying to encourage our young people to walk, cycle, scoot or park and stride to school as part of our Journey to Jupiter challenge in partnership with Clean Green East Ayrshire, but we are faced with the ongoing issue of dangerous parking around our school grounds, making it difficult for our children to safely use the footpaths around our school.
Our Clean Green Transport Team would like to make you aware of 5 safe car parks within walking distance of our school.
Please watch our video and listen to the message from our young people to help keep everybody safe!
We have a range of winter jackets and school uniform in a variety of sizes available for free to our families.
They are on display by the Community Entrance. They are all labelled by size, please help yourself! The Community Entrance doors will be open 9-9.15am and 3-3.15pm until Thursday this week.
We are also looking for donations of PE kit (shorts/joggers/indoor shoes) to keep in our changing rooms for anyone who has forgotten their kit. If you have anything suitable at home, please send them in with your child or hand in at the main office.
Many thanks for your continued support!
Our Clean Green Energy Team were hard at work during Rich Tasks on Friday to create our ‘Windy Widnae Waste Water’ video to highlight Windy’s top tips from this week.
What changes can you make to save water?
Today, at the EastAyrshire a Youth Climate Conference 2023, establishments from across East Ayrshire were introduced to Windy the Windmill designed by our very own, Noah M!
What an achievement to see his design become a reality! Noah’s mascot will be visiting schools and will be the face of an Energy campaign this school session. We are so proud of you Noah and can’t wait for you to meet Windy in the flesh for yourself! 🤩🌟
