Welcome back everyone!
we have had another epic week in P6, our favourite so far because we went on not now but two trips!
our first trip was on Monday and we went to the Urban Roots programme which is part of the New Victoria Allotments in Pollokshields. we met a man named Stuart who challenged us to go around all of the allotment gardens and try to spot as many different fruits and vegetables as we could. Some of them were hard to recognise as they can look different when grown locally. For example the courgettes were huge compared to the ones in the shops and some were yellow instead of green!
While we were looking around the allotments we met some people who were working on their gardens and they let us take home some of their beautiful flowers!
After we wandered around Stuart challenged us to look at a variety of fruits, vegetables and herbs he had laid out on the table and see if we could tell which ones were grown in the allotments and which ones were bought in the supermarket. It was very interesting and made us think more about buying locally and growing our own food.
The next day we went on another trip, this time to the Hidden Gardens at the Tramway. we met a lady called Rhona who told us all about the importance of buying locally as buying foods that are not grown in the uk and are not grown seasonally could be very damaging to the planet as it raises our carbon footprint.
The other thing we have been learning about in our topic this week is alternatives to dairy milk. We learned last week that dairy farming can be really harmful to the environment as it releases large amounts of carbon dioxide into the air, uses up lots of land and crops and wastes lots of water.
This week we did a taste test of five different dairy free milks. We tried oat, rice, soy, almond and coconut milk. We had to describe them based on look before trying them. It was so much fun!
We have two more trips next week before out September weekend holiday. On Monday we are going to the GFT and on Thursday the whole school are going to Edinburgh zoo.
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P6 and Miss Webster
