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Citizenship, Eco, Events, Outdoor Learning, Primary 7

Digging our Pond

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A couple of weeks ago Primary 7 were building a pond with Jennifer from Jupiter. She helped us design and build it.  We also had a visit from a lady who works at Dobbies to help us get plants for our Inside Outside Eco Pod. Some of us used trowels and some used shovels but we all had a go at each of them. We have found some wildlife living in it already. It took us about 2 afternoons to dig the pond. Once we dug the pond we had to line it with tar pollen and carpet to make sure the water did not drain away.

Citizenship, Eco, health, Outdoor Learning, Wider Achievement

The opening of the Inside Outside Eco Pod

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On Wednesday 19th September the provost came to the opening of the inside outside eco pod and our one planet picnic.  Jordan from Falkirk High School piped us in with the bagpipes. There was a BBQ for the parents in the quiet area and tasters round on the tarmac. There were smoothies, milkshakes, strawberries and chocolate bananas, potato salad, carrots, pickles, kebabs and pavlova’s . All of the foods were made with local, seasonla or ethically produced foods and were yummy! 

Citizenship, Eco, Events, Wider Achievement

One Planet Picnic

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On Wednesday 19th September our school held a special event for the opening of our outdoor classroom, The Inside Outside Eco Pod and our one planet picnic.

The foods or ingredients were all local, seasonal or ethically sourced. There were bananas and strawberries with chocolate, flavoured milkshakes, pavlova, smoothies and much more.

Some guests came like the provost, Tony Bragg and parents. There were free sausages and burgers and the parents had a barbeque.  We sat on mats with our food. We had 3 tickets to spend on the food.  Every class had prepared a snack. The provost cut the ribbon to open the Inside Outside Eco Pod. I showed Tony Bragg and the Provost around the Inside Outside Eco Pod. The speakers were led in by Jordan Montgomery.

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Brown Trout Presentation!

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On Monday 30th April 5 members of P5N went to talk about the trout that we were looking after. The 5 members were Nicole, Shakira, Grant, Blair and Kellie. We went to camelon education centre to do the presentation.  we had to do a presentation and there were loads of goodies to eat. We all got a pencil case each and the girls got  2 pencils and a pen and the boys got a glue stick. It was fun and after a few presentations we got to eat droughts and loads of sweets and Pepsi. I hope they keep on doing it because it is a opportunity to look after brown trout. We also got a certificate.

By Nicole

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Tree planting

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On Monday 18th March the whole school planted trees in the school grounds. The trees are covering half of the school grounds . There were lots of different kinds of trees like oak, hawthorn, birch, hazel and rowan.  There were 420 trees. We had to space them 2 metres apart from each other.  When we were finished planting the trees we got free hats to keep. The nursery, p1, p2, p3, p4, p5n, p5mac and p7 were planting trees. But p6 didn’t because they were doing Max in the Middle.  These trees were for The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations and we got them from The Woodland Trust.

By Nicole J and KellieJIn p5n

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Visit to P5N

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On Thursday 23rd February Christine Bell came in to visit our class.  Christine works for Communities Along the Carron.  She came in as she wanted to see our brown trout and see how they weregetting on.  Christine watched us update the blog and loved our fish voki!  She showed us a map where we are going to release our fish.  We will be doing this in the next few weeks!