Map of the School Grounds
In this first picture is the map of the school and shared nursery campus grounds this shows the three playgrounds one of which is the schools Multi Use Games Area also known as the MUGA.
Evidence of existing engagement of Sustainable Development
The school has a community garden during the summer months students will contribute in maintaining the garden groups, planting new flowers as they will grow better with the summer weather. The pupil’s who work in the schools garden are known as the ‘Gardening Group’. Within the school there are also recycling bin wardens for every classroom they work in helping the janitor make sure all rubbish in the recycling bin belongs where it should and place all contents in the correct bin. In January 2011 the school achieved their Silver Eco award and Green Flag but from discussion with teachers and pupils the school is striving to achieve Gold.
Play Space for Children and its Sustainability
The School has two large playgrounds and a Multi Use Games Area (MUGA), which is split into three football pitches. The School is at full capacity with extensive numbers of pupils this is why there are so many play spaces for children. One playground is for P1-3, the other P4-5 and the MUGA for P6-7 but all stages get a turn once a week to play in the MUGA.
Discussion with Pupils on aspects of Sustainable Education
Having discussed with pupils in the P4/5 class everyone said they were happy with the many opportunities they are faced with in schools in taking part in many different groups and activities such as the Eco group, or Bin wardens. The pupils in P4/5 also said having the opportunity to work with professionals not within the school is effective. Morton Football came in to take a block of PE lessons about football skills. But as well as this they also discuss with pupils how to make our environment better and allocated all pupils with a Greener Morton workbook. Within this workbook it was all about energy, transport, food miles and recycling and what pupils can do to improve their own environments.
