{"id":15897,"date":"2022-12-05T09:58:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T09:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holyfamily\/?p=15897"},"modified":"2022-12-05T09:58:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T09:58:32","slug":"christmas-jumper-swap-book-swap-reintroduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holyfamily\/2022\/12\/05\/christmas-jumper-swap-book-swap-reintroduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Jumper Swap! Book Swap Reintroduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/holyfamily\/uploads\/sites\/26107\/2022\/12\/05094511\/kids-christmas-jumpers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15899\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holyfamily\/2022\/12\/05\/christmas-jumper-swap-book-swap-reintroduction\/kids-christmas-jumpers\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/holyfamily\/uploads\/sites\/26107\/2022\/12\/05094511\/kids-christmas-jumpers.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,900\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"kids christmas jumpers\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/holyfamily\/uploads\/sites\/26107\/2022\/12\/05094511\/kids-christmas-jumpers-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/holyfamily\/uploads\/sites\/26107\/2022\/12\/05094511\/kids-christmas-jumpers-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-15899\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/holyfamily\/uploads\/sites\/26107\/2022\/12\/05094511\/kids-christmas-jumpers-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Eco Team met on Friday and came up with TWO fantastic ideas to help reduce waste:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christmas Jumper Swap<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Textile (Clothing) waste is a <strong>BIG<\/strong> problem. Items like children&#8217;s Christmas jumpers are rarely worn for more than one season because children grow out of clothes so quickly. Some statistics on <strong>textile (clothing) waste<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Each person in Britain <strong>throws away about 3.1kg<\/strong> of textiles every year, and that<strong> 1.7kg of fashion waste is landfilled<\/strong> yearly per person.<\/li>\n<li>The United Kingdom is second in terms of annual spending on new clothing, with\u00a0 an average of <strong>\u00a3980.50 per person<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, here at Holy Family, we want to address this by hosting a <strong>Christmas Jumper Swap<\/strong> where you can donate Christmas jumpers that are too small and take away, <strong>for free<\/strong>, a Christmas jumper that will fit you!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>FAQs<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>You <strong>don&#8217;t<\/strong> need to donate to get a free jumper.<\/li>\n<li>If you have<strong> lots<\/strong> of jumpers that are too small, we&#8217;ll happily take <strong>all<\/strong> of them off your hands.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Please<\/strong> give generously!<\/li>\n<li>Can you make sure they&#8217;re <strong>washed<\/strong> and <strong>dried<\/strong> before donating please? Thanks \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/holyfamily\/uploads\/sites\/26107\/2022\/12\/05095744\/png-transparent-girl-books-shelf-bookshelf-student-kid-child-library-playful-cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15900\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holyfamily\/2022\/12\/05\/christmas-jumper-swap-book-swap-reintroduction\/png-transparent-girl-books-shelf-bookshelf-student-kid-child-library-playful-cartoon\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/holyfamily\/uploads\/sites\/26107\/2022\/12\/05095744\/png-transparent-girl-books-shelf-bookshelf-student-kid-child-library-playful-cartoon.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"920,1189\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"png-transparent-girl-books-shelf-bookshelf-student-kid-child-library-playful-cartoon\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/holyfamily\/uploads\/sites\/26107\/2022\/12\/05095744\/png-transparent-girl-books-shelf-bookshelf-student-kid-child-library-playful-cartoon-232x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/holyfamily\/uploads\/sites\/26107\/2022\/12\/05095744\/png-transparent-girl-books-shelf-bookshelf-student-kid-child-library-playful-cartoon-792x1024.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-15900\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/holyfamily\/uploads\/sites\/26107\/2022\/12\/05095744\/png-transparent-girl-books-shelf-bookshelf-student-kid-child-library-playful-cartoon-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Book Swap Reintroduction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is a display area just inside the main door to the back playground which used to be used for a <strong>Book Swap<\/strong>. Covid restrictions meant we had to stop that <strong>but<\/strong> <strong>now<\/strong> we are <strong>delighted<\/strong> to announce <strong>we can reintroduce it<\/strong>! If you would like to<strong> take a book<\/strong> from this display, help yourself <strong>for free<\/strong>! If you would like to <strong>donate<\/strong> any books, bring them in and display them here for others to take. <strong>Please<\/strong> give generously!<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Cooney will fill the<strong> Book Swap area<\/strong> with <strong>Christmas\/winter-themed<\/strong> books to kick off the Book Swap in <strong>seasonal<\/strong> style!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eco Team met on Friday and came up with TWO fantastic ideas to help reduce waste: Christmas Jumper Swap Textile (Clothing) waste is a BIG problem. Items like children&#8217;s Christmas jumpers are rarely worn for more than one season because children grow out of clothes so quickly. Some statistics on textile (clothing) waste: Each &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holyfamily\/2022\/12\/05\/christmas-jumper-swap-book-swap-reintroduction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christmas Jumper Swap! Book Swap Reintroduction<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33837,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2499,12686],"tags":[53554,53522,53555],"class_list":["post-15897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eco","category-whole-school","tag-book-swap","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-jumper-swap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holyfamily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holyfamily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holyfamily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holyfamily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33837"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holyfamily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holyfamily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15901,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holyfamily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15897\/revisions\/15901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holyfamily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holyfamily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holyfamily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}