Tag Archives: Learning For Sustainability

Share The Love

This week Beatlie have been using their imagination and hope for the future and both experienced and participated in the campaign #SharetheLove for Climate Change.

Please have a look at our children at work and share the message to help Save our Planet for our future children.

 

Term 2 in Dunratvie 2022

Ochiltree Term 1

Ochiltree has had a fantastic start to the year and we have had a great time learning, having fun and getting to know each other.

We were busy the first couple of weeks making displays for our Class Charter and our Target work. Our theme being balloons. So we had a fun photo shoot to help make the display.

The boys have been enjoying our Boys Group that we have started – they are going to have the girls heads turning by the end of the year they will be looking and smelling so good! They have been really motivated and trying hard to help themselves with their own personal care and we are looking forward to seeing how well they come on over the year.

The children are working hard to achieve their IEP targets as well as ASDAN and SQA quaalifications. They are working well individually to carry out class jobs/home chores as well as physical exercises and trying out new experiences such as rebound, archery, meeting new animal friends and peers.

We hope you all have a great holiday and we are looking forward to the next term and all things Christmasy! x

Eco Schools Green Flag

It is with great pride to announce that Beatlie School have achieved their 5th Green Flag for all their hard work on all things Eco within the school and the wider community.

Thank you to all the children, staff, parents and local community for all the support and participation over the last 2 years.

We look forward to our next journey which will start again after the October break and will continue on into the new school – how exciting!

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International School Award

 

 

It is with great delight to announce the achievement of the International School Award from the British Council.

The Foundation level of the International School Award is for schools embarking on their international journey. It is ideal for schools that:

  • are introducing the concept of internationalism,
  • are getting ready to form an international partnership,
  • have conducted at least one international classroom activity.

Beatlie have achieved this accolade through a partnership we formed with 2 schools in West Lothian and 1 in Africa.

We worked very hard on this partnership on 3 different areas:

# Gardening: From Earth to Plate

# Health, Mind & Body

# Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

We have enjoyed the partnership and plan to continue with international and local relationships to continue with our Learning for Sustainability throughout the curriculum and throughout the school.

We will be looking to further our experiences and join with other schools to participate in the ‘Climate Change Challenge’.

 

#Fairtrade Fortnight Quiz Answers

 

Fairtrade Fortnight 2021
Climate quiz
How much do you know about the climate crisis and Fairtrade?

Quiz Answers
1. Which continent is most vulnerable to the climate crisis? Africa

2. How many animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction because of the climate crisis? One million

3. Name two Fairtrade products that are at risk because of the climate crisis. Chocolate, bananas or coffee

4. If no action is taken, many cocoa growing regions will become too hot to grow cocoa – that means no more chocolate. What year will this happen by, if no action is taken? 2050

5. How many people from Cote d’Ivoire have the same carbon footprint as one person in the UK? 21

6. Name one way that Fairtrade supports farmers to combat climate change.

  •  Fairtrade provides higher incomes to help farmers respond to climate emergencies
  • Fairtrade supports farmers to protect biodiversity
  •  Fairtrade trains farmers in environmentally friendly farming practices

7. How many farmers and workers in the world depend on coffee production? 25 million

8. How can you support farmers and workers overseas to cope with the challenges of the climate crisis? Choose Fairtrade!

#Fairtrade Fortnight

 

What a fantastic fortnight we had in Beatlie exploring all that is Fairtrade!

We had fun participating in the baking activity making tray bakes for all our friends and family to enjoy at home as we were unable to hold our coffee morning!

We experienced story massage listening to stories and songs about Fairtrade while relaxing.

Messy Play was fun exploring rice, coffee and chocolate!

We also participated in ‘Climate’ activities such as Litter Picking, Recycling and Gardening.

We hope you enjoy looking at all our hard work and experiences on the Learners Journals but we would also like to give a

HUGE THANKS for all the donations made for Fairtrade Fortnight!

We raised £64 from our virtual coffee morning.

Here are a few photos of some of our frieds enjoying their traybake at home.

 

 

#FairtradeFortnight

Fairtrade Fortnight 2021
Climate quiz for secondary schools
How much do you know about the climate crisis and Fairtrade? This quiz is a good way to get you thinking about the impact of the climate crisis on farmers and workers overseas.

Quiz
1. Which continent is most vulnerable to the climate crisis?

2. How many animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction because of the climate crisis?

3. Name two Fairtrade products that are at risk because of the climate crisis.

4. If no action is taken, many cocoa growing regions will become too hot to grow cocoa – that means no more chocolate. What year will this happen by, if no action is taken?

5. How many people from Cote d’Ivoire have the same carbon footprint as one person in the UK?

6. Name one way that Fairtrade supports farmers to combat climate change.

7. How many farmers and workers in the world depend on coffee production?

8. How can you support farmers and workers overseas to cope with the challenges of the climate crisis?