We would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who managed to complete last weeks challenge. You are helping us to achieve our action plan for this year while we are all working from home! That’s amazing!
Take a look at this weeks challenge:
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Let’s see if we can get even more people completing the challenge this week.
Speak soon!
Eco Leaders
Our Eco Leaders have still been working hard to complete their action plan for this year. This week they set you the following challenge…
A very big well done to everyone who managed to complete the challenge this week. We enjoyed looking at the photos you took when out and about on your daily walk:
Look out for next weeks challenge!!
Have a great weekend,
Eco Leaders
The winners of the St Nicholas Reading and Writing competitions had a lovely lunch with our Head Teacher, Mrs Brown, today. They went on a bus to the other end of Broxburn, had a delicious lunch, and were treated to a book of their choice. Thank you very much to our local partners, Glow Worm Books, for looking after our prizewinners so well and for sponsoring these competitions for us.
And well done again to our fabulous readers and writers.
The Eco Group did the RSPB’s Big Schools’ Birdwatch today, noting the different types of birds that are in the Broxburn area, before we uploaded our results to find the Top 10 birds around St Nicholas. We then worked to create bird snappers – older pupils working alongside younger pupils. Thanks to our P7, P6 and P5s who took such good care of our younger St Nicholas children, working with such care, skill and patience. The snappers were very fiddly to put together but we got there with them. Well done everyone!
Here are some of the boys and girls from P2 with the anti – litter posters that they have created. We are proud to be an Eco school and want to remind everyone to keep St Nicholas free from litter.
P4-7 Eco and Pupil council reps have been busy today contributing to a community art trail that is being created for Broxburn and Uphall! In the morning we went out to speak to some local people and shopkeepers to get their ideas on what could be created to benefit the community. We then collated these ideas and fed them back to the designers. In the afternoon we took part in a design workshop and created some lovely bags. 
Our ECO reps spoke to the whole school at a Pupil Voice Assembly last Thursday, when they shared their stage’s plan for ECO activities for the rest of the year. In their role as young leaders of our school, P7 pupils approved these plans and they also spoke about the additional leadership roles they will take forward to support and lead the school. Copies of these action plans are attached below:
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If parents or friends of St Nicholas want to get involved or support these plans in any way, please get in touch.
A time of reflection yesterday as St Nicholas Primary School took part in Broxburn’s Remembrance Sunday Service.
One of the special jobs we are responsible for in Primary 3 is to empty and clean the recycling bins in the dinner hall.
Today we emptied lots of plastic bottles and cups from the bins and sent them to be recycled! Remember if you think the bins are getting a bit full speak to our Eco Monitors, Aimee or Esme who will arrange for them to be emptied.
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Our food should be sourced locally to help save our planet.
Aloha! The Eco Club are enjoying a One Planet picnic this afternoon. Thank you to everyone who donated locally produced foods.
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We have a right to live in a clean and safe environment.
The Eco club were quite disappointed to find lots of litter around our school last week. Please can everyone remember to put all their litter in the bins provided.
As part of our Eco tasks, primaries 3 and 3/2 are responsible for emptying and recycling the plastic bottles and cans from the recycle bank in the dinner hall. We counted a whopping 287 bottles and 6 cans. Unfortunately, some people have been using the recycle bank as a rubbish bin and we found old sandwiches, pieces of fruit and even a pencil. This made this a yukky job as the bin was really smelly! Thankfully Jordan, our janitor, has kindly offered to clean the bins for us. So we would like to ask that you only put empty plastic bottles and cans into the recycle bin.
Thank you!
Here is the Eco News for this week.
* A letter has been sent to the council RE our Eco Garden and we are waiting for a reply.
* We are going to photocopy the Bee Competition flyers so these will be delivered to your classes very soon.
* Wiktoria and Iona reported that their talks to P2 and P2/1 went very well.
Quite a few Eco members brought up the subject of litter and we have started making posters to encourage everyone to keep our school nice and clean.
* The No Electricity Friday is going really well and lots of children reported improvements in their classes 🙂
* Our Healthy Tuck Shop is still really busy and we are delighted so many people are using it.
* Seren has also kindly volunteered to help Mrs Reid clean out the brown bins, adding their contents to our compost bin.
* The last meeting of the Eco Club for this term will be Thursday 20th March.
Eco Rap
Put your litter in the bin, in the bin(x2)
It will make the school a cleaner place
Put your litter in the bin, in the bin.
Switch the lights off when you can, when you can(x2)
It will save us lots of energy
Switch the lights off when you can, when you can.
Keep the GREEN FLAG flying high, flying high(x2)
St Nicholas is a super ECO school
Keep the green flag flying high, flying high.
It was a very busy meeting today and we had lots of items on our agenda!
* We are going to write a letter and petition to West Lothian Council to complain about the state they have left our Eco Garden in.
* The Eco reps are going to visit P1,P2 and P3 weekly to tell them all about ECO.
* COMPETITIONS – We are going to enter two competitions. One is about encouraging bees back into Scotland and the other is about planting food. We are planning to make a MASSIVE bowl of soup in August.
* WW EARTH HOUR 2014 is going to be on 29th March 2014. See poster on Eco board.
* Are you rembering about NO Electricity Fridays? It’s very easy to do during prayers.
The Eco Warriors have been working hard to clean up the school garden this week. We have also registered for the Big Spring Clean!
Today was the first meeting of the Eco Club in 2014.
7 members attended and 3 sent apologies.
Our Chairperson Wiktoria opened our meeting offering a warm welcome to old and new members.
Agenda
* Cutting back hedge in Eco Garden – should we write a letter?
* Discuss Healthy Tuck Shop – appears to be very busy
* No electricity Friday – 10 mins – extend time?
* Possible visit to Willow Den
* Next week wear old clothes as we are going into the garden.
Next meeting Thursday 6th February 3-4pm
