Category Archives: Biodiversity

Biodiversity, Eco Schools, Litter, School Grounds, Sustaining the world

Eco 2013!

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It’s a new year at Fogandenny and a new year of eco and we have a lot of targets this year are:

  • The recycling area – redo the signs
  • RSPB Big Bird Watch 2013 – count the birds in our school
  • Check bird feeders – make sure they are always full in winter
  • Food Miles – our new topic
  • Bird Box camera – check on our friends in the bird box
  • Build the Spare Bird Box – well, build it!
  • Herb garden – pland some more herbs
  • Photos – take some and put them on our blog
  • Litter pick – have a big community litter pick
  • Blogging – keep it up to date

So those are Forgandenny’s eco goals for 2013 lets hope we manage to do them all.

Biodiversity, Eco Schools, Litter, School Grounds

Outside in the garden

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Today the Green Beans did a variety of jobs in the garden. These were

  • washing the water  tray for P1-2 ready for use after winter
  • planted some new bulbs at the front of the school to make it look better
  • we tidied and swept up an area of the garden to make it look better for P1-2 to use in their outdoor learning
  • we made sure that all the bird feeders were filled up with seeds and nuts

Next week we are going to call Eco Schools Scotland to find out about our 2nd Green Flag.  We are also going to think about what veggies we should plant for growing this year.

Biodiversity, Eco Schools, Health and Well-being, School Grounds

Submitting our results

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Today we submitted our results to the RSPB for the Big Schools Bird Watch. We went online and we used the Smartboard to enter our results. After we had inputed our results we compared our results with the rest of Scotland and the UK using the 2011 info.

Jennifer – I enjoyed watching the birds visit our garden

Donald – I didn’t think we would have that many birds visit our garden

Shannah – It was interesting to see how many birds we had compared to other places

Kai – I can’t beleive we saw so many birds in our garden

Amy – It was hooching out there! I don’t think I have ever seen that many birds in the garden

Joe – It was so busy out there it was like a McDonald’s for birds!

Calum – I didn’t think we were going to see that many birds

Biodiversity, Eco Schools, Energy, Health and Well-being, Litter, School Grounds, Sustaining the world, Transport, Waste Minimisation, Water

Environmental Review

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Today the Green Beans carried out a series of environment reviews on subjects like health and well being, waste minimization, biodiversity, school grounds and energy and many more. These will help us in planning our next steps this year and also in working towards our 2nd Green Flag.

Jennifer – It was a fun activity and made us think about all the things we do in school

Angus – It was sometimes quite confusing because the questions were a bit tricky

Donald – The questions were challenging and it certainly made us think

Amy- Some of the reviews made us think about how good our school really is

Biodiversity, Eco Schools

Summer Veggies

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The Eco team would like to say a big thanks to everyone who looked after our veggies over the Easter Break – we have planted the beans in the veggie plot and the Health Groups are going to look after them now they have been planted. This week we are going to harvest some rhubarb, plant some of our baby courgettes and investigate growing pumpkins (hopefully ready for harvest in time for  Halloween)