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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

Eco Schools, School Grounds

The last post 2010/11

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This is the last Green Team post before the Summer holidays.  Here are our thoughts this year.

Chris – My favourite thing in the Green Team was deweeding and replanting the boxes at the front of the school.

James- My favourite thing about eco this year was going to Brig in Bloom and planting.

Kai- My favourite part was planting bulbs in the school grounds.

Jennifer- My favourite thing in the eco group this year was feeding the birds all through the winter.

Euan- My favourite part in eco was planting the courgettes.

Josh- My favourite thing was Mr Donnachie because he has been a very good teacher in eco.

Sacha- My favourite thing was feeding the birds in the garden.

Eco Schools, School Grounds

Eco 2010/11 -The Challanges

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This year we have had many weather related challanges due to snow and rain

In November the school had very bad snow, due to this we could not get to the garden for over five weeks!. When the snow finally melted we discoved that many of the beautiful plants had died.

In May the school had really bad weather. The wild wind brought down  many trees incuding the old apple tree in the stage area.

Not all are problems are due to the weather. Our video birdbox  still has nothing in it maybe next year we will be third time lucky!

Eco Schools, School Grounds, Sustaining the world

Eco 2010/2011 – Our Successes

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It has been a very busy year in the Green Team – Here are a few of our successes.

  • Blogging was one of our biggest successes as you can see! 
  • Our veggies are flourishing considering the fact they were battered by heavy winds.
  • The garden is beautiful thanks to the parents for all their hard work at weekends.  We take our hats off to you!
  • The birds have stayed around only because of our hard work and your donations. Thanks!
  • The birds also stay around because of our brand new bird feeders.

Those are some of our main successes but we’ve done lots more things over this year – check out our blogs for all the details