Today was the day our Eco Committee could finally harvest their pumpkins for Halloween! We cannot believe how big our pumpkins have grown over the last few months. Lucy, who originally planted the seedlings in May, was amazed at the different shapes and colours of the pumpkins and managed to find her own pumpkin in the patch. Thank you to Barrhead Water Works for a great afternoon! 
We loved meeting other children from the St Mark’s Eco Committee and McCready’s Family Centre. We all decided to meet up again in the future to work on new projects together.
The Water Works featured our work on their website.
The Eco Committee joined forces with Cross Arthurlie’s Junior Road Safety Officers to organise a Walk to School Day on Friday 28th October.
Pupils felt that there were too many cars and traffic around the school and encouraged people to get together with their friends to walk all or part of the way to school. The Eco Committee hopes this will reduce pollution around the school and ease traffic jams.
Our Bags of Help funding is contributing towards a gazebo. Today work has started on our beautiful outdoor classroom!
Thank you to Scotplay for their great work.
The Eco Committee were delighted to receive their Silver Award from the Woodland Trust’s Green Tree School Award Scheme.
The school had previously received a Bronze Award for the work they were already doing.
Recently the Eco Committee and some P7 volunteers read the story of ‘The Man Who Planted Trees’ to remind the children how important trees are to our planet. The committee also went on a woodland walk to learn about trees and shrubs, and created natural artwork to receive extra points towards their silver award.
The committee have ordered trees to arrive in March. The committee hopes to host a community day to rejuvenate the school grounds.
Cross Arthurlie Eco Committee
