THE GIRLS FOOTBALL TEAM

The Girls Football Team will take part in their 2nd festival on Friday 19 of November at St Ambrose from 1:15 to 3pm.  Any girls who would like to attend can see Ms MacDonald in G086 and sign up for Future Fridays Football also.

FUTURE FRIDAYS

Future Friday activities continue Friday afternoon 1pm – 3pm

We now have Golf, Diamond painting and basketball up and running as well as all our previous clubs. For more information, please see our social media on Instagram and twitter @GHSFutureFriday

CLIMATE EMERGENCY ACTION WEEK

This past week has been ‘Climate Emergency Action Week‘ here at Greenfaulds! Departments from across the school have been offering various Climate Change lessons and activities, ranging from Climate Change timelines in History, to studying Michael Jackson’s Earth Song in Music, Eco Friendly App Design in Computing Studies to investigating the work of Protest and Pressure Groups like Extinction Rebellion in Modern Studies! The Eco Committee have also organised a huge range of activities for all pupils to get involved in from the Pledge Point campaign – where pupils sign up to small changes in their daily habits to reduce carbon footprint – to a ‘Walk/cycle to school’ Strava competition! There is also a Sustainable Fashion Fair using Vinted, Carpool Karaoke for staff to encourage car sharing, a Photography Competition with the theme ‘Our Changing Climate’, an English writing competition based on Climate Change, and a Disposable Mask challenge to limit disposable mask use. We also hosted a Meatless Monday day at the canteen where no meat was served for breakfast, break or lunch to help raise awareness of methane from cattle farming. And to help families switch to a more plant-based diet we compiled a meatless recipe book available for free download from the School Website! A packed schedule – all to help raise awareness of climate change to mark COP26!

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT – CLIMATE WRITING COMPETITION

Here are the winning entries from the English Department’s Cop Competition. What talented pupils we have in GHS. Powerful reading ahead…

 S1/2 CATEGORY WINNER: ARA MCDERMOTT, 1WA2

Look in front of you and what do you see?
A wonderful city filled with joy and glee.

Look beside you and what do you see?
A beautiful forest packed with magic and trees.

Look behind you and what do you see?
A polluted world made of terror and flee.

 S1/2 CATEGORY RUNNERS UP: BROOKE MEIKLE, S2

A world demolished, abandoned.  A peaceful haven, what once was, destroyed, gone.

Never again to sing, never again to dance upon its green grass, never to breathe its fresh air, never to know what you could have known.

A world split in two, and us in between.

 S1/2 CATEGORY RUNNERS UP: SERAPHINA WALKER, 1WA2

Come little butterfly, we cannot stay.
Come little butterfly, the humans will betray.
Come little butterfly, this place is gonna blow.

Climate change is not a tool.
Climate change you cannot rule.

Pain and anguish will come.
The ground is crumbling.

 S1/2 CATEGORY RUNNERS UP: HOLLIE ALEXANDER, 1TH

 The change in our beautiful world makes me rage in despair.  From the bright green grass to the warm polluted air.  I look out the window and let my imagination run free, all that I could imagine is what the world could be.  Then I remember our world is…

 S3/4 CATEGORY WINNER: HANNAH BRODIE, S4

 Eden
That’s what we once had.

Destruction
That’s what’s coming.

We lie in the in-between
Where governments give out drilling orders

To become richer
Knowing it is against agreements they once signed.
It’s only the kids that care if the world is on fire.

Destruction or Eden?
We decide, right?

 S3/4 CATEGORY RUNNERS UP: NIAMH MITCHELL, S3

 Why?

In my last moments I’m overwhelmed by heat, tears rolling down my face. I’m not sad but glad, I brought this upon myself, saying tomorrow, tomorrow but in the end never. I lay down letting the heat absorb me as the world goes up in flames and I think why?

 S3/4 CATEGORY RUNNERS UP: ABBIE ROSS, S3

From heaven to hell
Through bad and good
Broken

From the way it looks
To the way it feels
Broken

Our world is broken
From the brightest days to the darkest nights
Our world
Broken

 S5/6 CATEGORY WINNER: HANNAH RUSSELL, S6

We all watched from our homes while she cried out
She looked skeletal, dry, prehistoric
She was cracking quickly, changing always
River, rock, ruin

Her mossy surface now mulch in our hands
Her wheat hair turned to rope
Rope for us to climb until the eventual destruction of our
Earth

S5/6 CATEGORY RUNNERS UP: KATIE MACDONALD, S5

Here I stand repentant,
Mortified.
Beside the life I created,

My child, our children, futures,
Doomed.
By our carelessness.

The life I gave her.
The life I promised, before we even met,
Is also the life I destroyed.

I do not choose to say I love you.
Instead,
Mummy’s sorry.

 S5/6 CATEGORY RUNNERS UP: EMILY SMITH S6

 PLASTIC PANDEMIC

A terrible mess we have made of our world
A future uncertain, still to be unfurled
The planet is dying and we are to blame
Unless we act now and stop “more of the same”
Our world needs to breathe and oceans must clear
The plastic pandemic must now
END!