Here is the link to the latest newsletter from Eco-Schools Scotland. It’s an interesting read.
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EARTH HOUR 2013
Eyemouth Primary School is taking part in EARTH HOUR 2013.
At school on Friday 22nd, we will be switching off everything we can for 1 hour between 11-12.
We would love EVERY family to get involved too so, if you are willing to join EARTH HOUR 2013, please agree to switch off all your gadgets, lights, microwaves and washing machines for 1 hour over the weekend.
Eco update 14.3.13
The Eco Committee got together (at last) this week and arranged the following:
– All classes to re-commit to weekly litter picks. Litter team to oversee this and keep classes in check.
– Compost bins now in use in canteen. Bio-diversity team to talk to Mrs Thompson about these.
-Energy team to recommence class check-ups.
– Trash Pack competition shared with all pupils (closing date Thursday 27th March). Trashie for everyone + a sticker to make everyone think about Waste Week. Let’s make less mess!
Going for Green Flag (again!)
Eyemouth Primary School received it’s first green flag in 2009 and a second in 2011.
Well, it’s that time again and in May 2013, we will be applying for our third green flag.
Our pupils and staff work hard to ensure we are an eco-school. But to be a green flag school, it’s more than just ‘working hard’. We’ve got t prove it too!
To earn our next green flag we need to make sure we can tick off everything on the ‘Green Flag Award‘ list. Why not click on the link to see for yourselves what we need to show?
We’ll keep you up-to-date with how we’re getting on.
Wildlife Wizards
This week we got busy collecting wood from around our playing field. We used this to make a “bug paradise” and a “bug city”.We hope the bugs like their new home.
Inaugural Active School Travel Champion Awards
Congratulations! Eyemouth Primary has won the Eyemouth area Active School Travel Award.
The awards are to be presented to the schools with the highest percentage of pupils actively travelling to school that year. At Primary level each high school cluster area will have their own shield to compete for; while at secondary level the 9 High Schools will compete for the Secondary School Active Travel Champion Award.
The schools have already gathered the information required as part of the National School Travel Hands Up Survey. This takes place annually in September when every nursery, primary and secondary school pupil is surveyed on their travel mode to school and the results are collated for every authority in Scotland by Sustrans on behalf of the Scottish Government.
We would like to invite you (or a teacher/parent representative) and two Junior Road Safety Officers to attend the Inaugural Active School Travel Awards to allow us to present your award in person on Thursday 7 March.
Eco meeting 18.12.12
We had a short meeting today to finish off some important business.
1) We reviewed our Eco Action Plans.
2) We finished our new Action Target display (see the photo!)
3) We agreed on next steps for each sub-team.
Our next steps are:
Litter > Visit classes on a weekly basis to remind them about their weekly litter pick duty.
Biodiversity > Agree dates and classes for Beach cleans.
Energy > Start weekly class energy checks.
Let’s re-adopt a beach
The Biodiveristy team met with Georgia Connelly today to talk about re-adopting Eyemouth beach. According to a report, our beach is not clean enough.
Georgia, who works for St Abbs and Eyemouth Volunteer Marine Reserve, was enthuastic about working together.
The team agreed that we as a school should re-commit to cleaning our beach four times a year. The exact details of this will be sorted out soon.
Eco Meeting 2.11.12
Bio-diversity have been checking ‘The Pod’ and designing the new target wall.
We have also created a competition to get pupils to design our new Eco-garden. We also started arranging a new compost system for school.
Litter team have been designing new labels for the recycling bins next to Mrs Reaps office. We have researched buying new bins for the playground and have also made a class litter pick table.
Energy team have been drawing pictures/posters for class Eco heroes. We then visited classes to do an energy check and have decided to do weekly checks and announce winning class. We then started organising ‘Switch Off Fortnight’.
Information to share with classes
1) RAG BAG will be collected on Friday 29.11.12
2) Switch Off fortnight starts on Friday 19.11.12. Look out for posters and stickers.
3) Look out for new compost collecting bins.
4) There will be a Garden Design competition. How many people would like to enter?
bio-diversity
Hello to everyone at eyemouth primary and this is just to say about whats happening around eco stuff in the the playground and that we got our badges!
we are gonna be weeding out the flowerpots and i dunno if we will be doing this but i have a idea that we could spray paint a leaf on the top of the pyramid.
