We just want to give a huge thanks to the West Lothian Council Community Payback Team. They donated us a beautiful Christmas garden that they made themselves from scratch. We are so grateful and appreciative of the amount of work that went into this.
This has made our lovely outdoor grounds even more special this Christmas!
Global Goals Week is an annual week of action, awareness, and accountability for the Sustainable Development Goals.
What are the Sustainable Development Goals?
The Sustainable Development Goals are a set of global priorities for ensuring that economic, environmental, social and cultural wellbeing is achieved for everyone around the world. They are ambitious goals for governments across the world to achieve, but there is a lot we can do at school and at home to support them.
The goals aim to end poverty, protect the planet and try to make sure that everyone around the world is living comfortably. All very important and worthwhile goals to work towards! Each goal has specific targets for governments to achieve over the next 14 years. In schools, we can help to support the meeting of these targets.
In our school we already do lots of excellent work to make the world clean, green and more sustainable! We have also made links between our Climate Action Schools projects and the Sustainable Development Goals so we will be able to record, monitor and evaluate our progress in helping achieve these goals.
This year we will be highlighting the following goals and this week was an introduction to these goals:
Global Goal 3: Daily Walking Club, Joint Healthy Snack
Global Goal 12: Paper recycing projects
Global Goal 15: Natural Art projects, Outdoor Music
What a fantastic end to the first year in our new school. We have had so much fun exploring everywhere. The weather has been a little bit nicer so we have made the most of being able to get out and about. We have had some very exciting walks and we even met a tractor with a very friendly driver who stopped to let us come close and see his tractor.
We have had lots of fun inside school as well, with our teddy bears picnic and clown doctors party both happening on nice sunny days. Even when it has not been as nice, we have still managed to make the most of our lovely new gardens, who knew that a poly tunnel was a great place to have a dance!
We finished our term with a lovely trip to Lochore Meadows country park where we had great fun in the play park then we had our picnic lunch, we even managed to have an ice cream before getting on the bus and coming home.
We hope everyone has a lovely summer and comes back to school looking forward to all the adventures we have in store for next year.
Earth Day 2024 Happy Earth Day 2024! Every year on April 22, we celebrate Earth Day. This annual event is a time to focus on the environmental issues we have across the planet and highlight the efforts being made so we can continue to protect it.
Earth Day is a reminder of the importance of environmental conservation and sustainability, encouraging us to come together and take action for a healthier planet and brighter future.
A fantastic end to our Spring Clean Week with a whole school litter pick.
Thank you to all the pupils and staff for their great effort in helping to look after our environment and keep our local community looking clean and tidy.
We have had lots of fun in Lomond this term, here are some of our highlights for you to enjoy.
Our first cafe in our new school and what a lovely morning we had joined by some strangers………..
Thank you to all who came and enjoyed the lovely baking the children prepared over the week.
Thank you to all the children and staff for decorating the hall and making fantastic scarecrows.
Everyone had the opportunity to vote for their favourite – although everyone is a winner, Peat was the peoples favourite on the day.
Enjoy watching the videos of us all preparing for the day and a second one showing us all enjoying the morning.
See you all again for our Children in Need cafe on 17th November.
We can’t believe that summer is here already! we would like to wish everyone a lovely summer holiday and we are looking forward to seeing everyone for the next big adventure in our lovely new school.
Here are some of the highlights from our term.
The whole school have thoroughly enjoyed the walking month of May.
Whilst out and about we all had opportunities to interact with nature and use our artistic minds to collate some beautiful artwork.
Take a look at our lovely art gallery 2023!
Earth Day 2023 – Invest in our Planet
This year for Earth Day we decided that we would invest in our planet using clean and safe energy:
# by investing in some solar lamps for each class to use on the day
# by collecting monies to donate to Solar Aid to help families in need
Through this participation we were using clean energy and giving the tools for others to do the same.
Families have no choice but to rely on poor alternatives such as homemade torches, candles and kerosene lamps.
These dangerous devices are imperilling health, impairing education, wasting household income and emitting astonishingly high amounts of carbon into the atmosphere.
Worst of all, families have to risk their lives every single night with open flames. It doesn’t have to be like this.
The whole school participated in Earth day – here are just a few of the activities we had fun experiencing:
Thank you for your generous gift. Through donations of £35 from pupils and staff along with a donation of £10 from the Fairtrade Tuck Shop we are able to give £45 to Solar Aid.
Your support means we can reach remote villages bringing solar to places where no one else goes.
Without your help, these communities would remain in the dark with only candles or kerosene lamps for light. Your donation will make this a problem of the past from the moment they switch on a solar light.
When the sun goes down at 6pm in sub-Saharan Africa, 590 million people are living in darkness. They have no access to electricity. There is no switch on the wall to turn on the light. This is energy poverty.
Impact calculator
A donation of £45 will result in…
3 solar lights reaching 16 people, with 12 currently using dangerous, toxic and poor sources of light.
This will lead to total savings of $379 a year, with 13 people feeling safer at home and 3 more children studying after dark.
Well Done Beatlie!
