article 24 – children have the right to a clean and safe environment

The Eco committee is launching it’s first campaign of the year

WASTEBUSTERS!

We are working hard to reduce the waste in the school.

This involves inside the school and outside the school.

Top Tips for being a good Wastebuster:

• put waste in the correct bin – recycling bins for plastic and paper, food bins for food and litter bins for everything else.
• turn off lights, computers and projectors when not using them
• create a scrap paper tray for your class to reuse old paper.
• put your litter in the bins in the playground.
• pick up litter in the playground if you see it.

We are launching a special Wastebuster house token system.

If an adult sees you doing any of the top tips above, they will give you a special waste buster token which is worth 10 house points.

Together we can help to make Woodlands a cleaner and nicer place for all of our children to learn.

Today, Primary 6/7 harvested the potatoes that were planted before the summer.

Some of them were MASSIVE!

After lunch, they made vegetable soup with some of the peas and beans that they also harvested and an onion that they had grown.

UNCRC articles

article 27 – every  child has the right to a standard of living that meets their physical needs.

Article 24 – every child has the right to the best possible health care and nutritious food.

Article  29 – Education should develop the personality and talents of all children.

Article 31 – every child has the right to relax and play.

A huge well done to all of the classes who worked very hard on the gardening competition.

During assembly last week, all the children were given a vote for the nicest garden.

The winner was Primary 4/5 – well done!

Check back in August to see which class has grown the most food.

Today, Primary 6 went insect hunting with Mr McMullan to see if we could find some bees in the local area.

We found some amazing insects including a red tailed bumblebee and a really weird fly that looked like a wasp!

Identification tips

Here is a great website to help us identify the different types of bumblebee!

Check out some of the pictures and videos.

Today, Primary 1 were learning about the anatomy of a honey bee!

Firstly we learned that bees have 3 body parts, 6 legs and 4 wings.

Our honey bees are mostly black and have small yellow stripes.

Then Primary 1 made these brilliant anatomy posters!

well done

The gardening competition is underway and primary 2/3 have made a great start with some beautiful viola’s, pansies, strawberries and peas.

They also planted a bag of potatoes.

They now need to keep watering and weeding the bed to make sure that it stays beautiful.

Primary 7 have also been planting and have cleaned up some of the other beds.

They planted onions, strawberries, peas, beans and flowers.

Here are some more beautiful examples  well done everyone .

Today the Eco committee launched a whole school gardening competition.

Each class is getting a gardening area and there will be two prizes

1. nicest garden area
2. most food grown before the end of the year.

Classes will be responsible for their own garden area, including planting, watering, weeding and harvesting.

Each week, the Eco committee will check all of the gardening areas and keep a record of the nicest gardening area.

Keep checking back for updates on progress!

there has been a lot of litter blowing into the school from the surrounding area so on Friday, primary 7 went out to tackle it!

As usual we had a weirdest item of litter competition and the three weirdest litter items this week were

1. the rusty head of a giant spade
2. a thermometer
3. a squeaky dog toy football

thanks to all primary 7s for putting the effort into cleaning up our environment – Article 24

over the past week some primary 7 children have been learning how to be beekeepers and performing beekeeping inspections.

Today at at assembly they shared what they have learned about beekeeping with the rest of the school and demonstrated the safety gear with a willing volunteer.

The children were extremely brave and gentle with the bees  well done.

We have now moved a lot of soil from around the school to the planters to get ready for the spring.

Today we planted 10 bags of “Duke of York” potatoes to grow for the school to use in the Autumn.

We also planted two rhubarb crowns in the nature garden, which will hopefully grow and provide the school with more rhubarb than it can eat for years to come!