Well done to everyone who helped out in our big litter pick around Greenrigg!
Tag Archives: ECO
Professor Eco Show
This afternoon Primary 1,2 and 3 have been enjoying a fun show from Professor Eco and learning all about Eco issues.
Green Flag Award
Greenrigg Primary has once again achieved the prestigious Green Flag Award from environmental charity Keep Scotland Beautiful. Well done to the Eco Pupil Voice Group and the all the staff and pupils for their ongoing hard work.
P7/6 Poetry
The Giant Outside my Classroom
Rhythmic, circling,hypnotic statues.
wonderful wizardry.
Whooshing and whirling.
Astonishing, magnificent, mesmerising machine.
Tumbling and twirling.
Gliding and swirling.
Amazing, irresistible, energetic technology.
Mind blowing.
Powerful! Prancing!
Magical, flowing, superior sight!
Never-ending.
Dreamy dancing.
This is the poem Primary 7/6 created with Poet Julie Anna Douglas. We focused on the wind turbines outside our classroom. We created a poem to celebrate the uniqueness of where we live. Each pupil contributed a word to the poem and created beautiful art work to complement it. We have also been using lots of activities that Julie taught our school to do further poem writing and creating different styles of poetry.
Zoolab
Ross from Zoolab came to visit the school with some interesting friends. Primary 7/6 experiences the work shop Habitats and Adaptations, we have been learning about the Habitats and how to care for them. How humans have an impact on animals habitats and our actions can force animals to adapt to survive.
P7/6 Windfarms
Primary 7/6 have completed their collaborative topic with Stoneyburn. Our topic was an Eco topic about renewable energy, how the land is used and focused on wind farms. We have built our own wind turbines testing out the difference in blade shapes, amount and wind speeds. We have acted out a pro and cons protest to wind farms. We have tested wind speeds and how to use the wind to our advantage. We have looked at renewable and non renewable energy sources and the future in Scotland. To finish it all of we visited Whitelee wind farm in Glasgow to ask more questions and see the giants in action. Also look at our separate blog on poetry as we used the wind turbines for a poetry project with Julie Douglas.
Primary 5/4 news
This week we have been; buying red noses (a lot), enjoying Judo taster sessions (so much fun), talking about World Book Day and sharing our favorite stories, finding out more about King Henry VIII, litter picking in the playground, practicing singing for our Easter Service, learning about fractions in our maths, learning about proper nouns in our writing and practicing for the Handball Festival next week.
Thank you to all the parents who have been sending pounds in for Red Nose Day, we made a graph out of ours to show the most popular noses.
Finally … ask some ‘sensible’ children to take the litter picking photos and this is what you find on the camera roll …
lovely 🙂
Fairtrade Fair
The Eco Food and Environment group will be a hosting a Fairtrade Fair on Friday 27th February from 9-10.30am. There will be a talk on fairtrade from the cosmetic company Lush and a variety of stalls selling fairtrade items, home baking, food and refreshments. We would be very grateful for any baking donations that we can sell at our event. We ask that they contain at least one Fairtrade ingredient, for example Fairtrade sugar, chocolate etc.
Below is a list of products that Lush will be selling on the day
Creamy Candy Bubble Bar £2.65 Think Pink Bath Bomb £2.65 Space Girl Bath Bomb £2.35 Ickle Bot Bath Bomb £1.95 Fluffy Egg Bath Bomb £2.95 Golden Egg £3.75 Hoppity Poppity Bath Bomb £2.50 Shower Jellys (3 types) £3.25/ £3.50 Charity Pot Hand and Body Lotion Sample size £1.00.
Please come along and help a very worthwhile cause. All money raised will be donated to the Fairtrade Foundation and will go towards helping farmers and workers around the world.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Eco Flag
Well done to Mrs Bradley and the pupils for achieving their green flag renewal. 
Baking Fun!
Primary 6/5 had fun this week trying out the school’s new portable oven! We baked shortbread in our classroom and donated it to Primary 7’s bring and buy sale. 
