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Wanted: Willing Wombles! Community Litter Pick next week

Our big Autumn Litter pick, out in the villages of Pumpherston and Uphall Station, will take place next Thursday morning(Sept 19th).  We would like to have as many of our friends and families taking part as possible – if you have an hour or so to spare come and join in with the classes as they tidy up the local area.The first groups will leave the school at 9.15am.

We’ll be out and about on the streets and in the parks.  Members of WLC NETS team will be with us to give training, lend equipment and hand out the bright yellow vests we wear to show we’re all Keeping Scotland Beautiful. If you can help please contact the office and we’ll match you up with a group on the day.  Thank you!

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News from the eco committee.

On the 23rd of September a important lady is coming to the school to see if our school is eco enough for the green flag.In our meeting on Tuesday we were talking about what we are going to do clean up around our school grounds, the suds pond and the school garden for our action plan this year. P5 have been doing ground force and they have been trying their hardest to keep our school grounds as clean as posible. P6 have been doing litter picking.

Any parents or friends of the school who would like to help with weeding, digging or planting this year would be very welcome. Please contact Mrs Hull at the school.

Thank you.

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Nursery Garden News

This afternoon the children in the Nursery were finding out how the carrots, onions, peas and potatoes they planted in the Spring had grown over the Summer. Here are the results!

Green fingers in the Nursery!
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Orchard report 21 Aug. 13

The orchard is looking great, although there are no apples yet.  One tree has been damaged over the summer, it looks like rabbits have been there. The grass has grown longer in the holidays with lots of clover. Primary 7 found a couple of 4 leafed clovers when we were litter picking.                                                   Holly and Amy Primary 7.

Primary 7 inspect the Orchard
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Sad news about Fergus

Mrs Hull is sorry to say that when she went round to water Fergus the Sunflower on Friday, he had snapped in the wind.

Now we won’t be able to enter the West Lothian schools sunflower competition – but the Eco group will have a go at growing our own sunflowers to take home. We could have a whole team of Ferguses growing in and around the school to find out the best place for next year’s competition!

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Fergus update

Oooh dear – we are worried about Fergus. He’s looking rather frazzled by the wind.  We gave him a good drink of water mixed with plant food today, and hope this will give him the energy he needs to grow some new leaves.  Come on Fergus, you can do it!

Members of the Eco club show their concern for Fergus the Sunflower
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Meet the School Sunflower!

Today at Eco club Mrs Hull introduced Fergus, the new School Sunflower.  We are taking part in the Sunflower Challenge run by Rural connect and will be looking after Fergus and hoping he will grow taller than any other sunflower in a West Lothian School.  Today’s challenge was putting him in a bigger pot as he had outgrown the pot he was put in only 2 weeks ago!   He has been gently tethered to the side of the building.  Please wave to him as you go by in the morning and have a look at how tall he is – but please DON’T TOUCH as he is very fragile!

At 4pm today he measured 1 metre tall – can anyone estimate when he will reach the same height as Miss Speirs?

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P1 Eco Week

Primary 1 had lots of fun during Eco Week! We designed our own planters and then spruced up the ones by the kickpitch! We pulled out the weeds and planted new seeds! We also went on a Spring Litter Pick – you can see how much we collected in the photo! We also helped the team on Friday to plant apple and plum trees for our orchard. We can’t wait to see the trees grow.

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Eco week in P5

This week our Eco challenge was to find playground games which can be put onto the ground of the playground. The one we picked for the younger children was a colourful caterpillar with the numbers up to twenty on it. We liked lots of designs for the older children and could not decide which one to pick. Some liked the bubble target and others liked the circle target. What we decided to do was to draw our favourite designs and give them to Molly to take to the next Pupil Council meeting. That way the whole school can be involved in what design should be picked. We were also involved in a litter pick and very much enjoyed helping to plant the orchard on Friday.

By the way……………… In case you have forgotten P5 are going to camp next week!

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Primary 4

We have had a very busy first week back in Primary 4 with lots of Eco challenges to complete.  Our main challenge was to find out where the sun shone on our playground.  We recorded this on a map and by taking photos at 9am, 12pm, 3pm and 6pm.  Below are some photos of the playground at different times of the day.   

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