{"id":4185,"date":"2021-11-04T14:21:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T14:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ghshome\/?p=4185"},"modified":"2021-11-05T11:02:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T11:02:16","slug":"school-news-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ghshome\/2021\/11\/04\/school-news-70\/","title":{"rendered":"SCHOOL NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE GIRLS FOOTBALL TEAM<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Girls Football Team will take part in their 2nd festival on Friday 19 of November at St Ambrose from 1:15 to 3pm.\u00a0 Any girls who would like to attend can see Ms MacDonald in G086 and sign up for Future Fridays Football also.<\/p>\n

FUTURE FRIDAYS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Future Friday activities continue Friday afternoon 1pm – 3pm<\/p>\n

We now have Golf, Diamond painting and basketball up and running\u00a0as well as all our previous clubs. For more information, please see our social media on Instagram and twitter @GHSFutureFriday<\/p>\n

CLIMATE EMERGENCY ACTION WEEK<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

This past week has been ‘Climate Emergency Action Week<\/strong>‘ 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!<\/p>\n

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT \u2013 CLIMATE WRITING COMPETITION<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

\u00a0<\/strong>S1\/2 CATEGORY WINNER: ARA MCDERMOTT, 1WA2<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Look in front of you and what do you see?
\nA wonderful city filled with joy and glee.<\/p>\n

Look beside you and what do you see?
\nA beautiful forest packed with magic and trees.<\/p>\n

Look behind you and what do you see?
\nA polluted world made of terror and flee.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>S1\/2 CATEGORY RUNNERS UP: BROOKE MEIKLE, S2<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A world demolished, abandoned.\u00a0 A peaceful haven, what once was, destroyed, gone.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

A world split in two, and us in between.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>S1\/2 CATEGORY RUNNERS UP: SERAPHINA WALKER, 1WA2<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Come little butterfly, we cannot stay.
\nCome little butterfly, the humans will betray.
\nCome little butterfly, this place is gonna blow.<\/p>\n

Climate change is not a tool.
\nClimate change you cannot rule.<\/p>\n

Pain and anguish will come.
\nThe ground is crumbling.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>S1\/2 CATEGORY RUNNERS UP: HOLLIE ALEXANDER, 1TH<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>The change in our beautiful world makes me rage in despair.\u00a0 From the bright green grass to the warm polluted air.\u00a0 I look out the window and let my imagination run free, all that I could imagine is what the world could be.\u00a0 Then I remember our world is\u2026<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>S3\/4 CATEGORY WINNER: HANNAH BRODIE, S4<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Eden
\nThat\u2019s what we once had.<\/p>\n

Destruction
\nThat’s what\u2019s coming.<\/p>\n

We lie in the in-between
\nWhere governments give out drilling orders<\/p>\n

To become richer
\nKnowing it is against agreements they once signed.
\nIt\u2019s only the kids that care if the world is on fire.<\/p>\n

Destruction or Eden?
\nWe decide, right?<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>S3\/4 CATEGORY RUNNERS UP: NIAMH MITCHELL, S3<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Why?<\/p>\n

In my last moments I\u2019m overwhelmed by heat, tears rolling down my face. I\u2019m 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?<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>S3\/4 CATEGORY RUNNERS UP: ABBIE ROSS, S3<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

From heaven to hell
\nThrough bad and good
\nBroken<\/p>\n

From the way it looks
\nTo the way it feels
\nBroken<\/p>\n

Our world is broken
\nFrom the brightest days to the darkest nights
\nOur world
\nBroken<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>S5\/6 CATEGORY WINNER: HANNAH RUSSELL, S6<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

We all watched from our homes while she cried out
\nShe looked skeletal, dry, prehistoric
\nShe was cracking quickly, changing always
\nRiver, rock, ruin<\/p>\n

Her mossy surface now mulch in our hands
\nHer wheat hair turned to rope
\nRope for us to climb until the eventual destruction of our
\nEarth<\/p>\n

S5\/6 CATEGORY RUNNERS UP: KATIE MACDONALD, S5<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Here I stand repentant,
\nMortified.
\nBeside the life I created,<\/p>\n

My child, our children, futures,
\nDoomed.
\nBy our carelessness.<\/p>\n

The life I gave her.
\nThe life I promised, before we even met,
\nIs also the life I destroyed.<\/p>\n

I do not choose to say I love you.
\nInstead,
\nMummy\u2019s sorry.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>S5\/6 CATEGORY RUNNERS UP: EMILY SMITH S6<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>PLASTIC PANDEMIC<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

A terrible mess we have made of our world
\nA future uncertain, still to be unfurled
\nThe planet is dying and we are to blame
\nUnless we act now and stop \u201cmore of the same\u201d
\nOur world needs to breathe and oceans must clear
\nThe plastic pandemic must now
\nEND!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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