Eco-Schools conference at the Scottish Parliament

A member of staff and 4 pupils from Currie Community High School will attend an Eco-Schools conference at the Parliament Building on 28th January 2011.
This focus of the event will be the forthcoming new Eco-Schools Scotland topic of Food and the Environment.

Sustainable School Group Meeting

A meeting of the Sustainable School Group took place to discuss progress with the Green Plan. Good progress is making made in all areas and a full update on progress will be published towards the end of the session.
Next term we will start a one month trial recycling plastic bottles, cans and juice cartons.

Sponsored Silence for Chogoria

Sponsored girls from Chogoria HS

Today our S1 pupils took part in a sponsored silence to help raise funds to pay for the fees for 4 pupils to attend Chogoria Girls High School. The pupils were fantastic - a real credit to the school and their parents.

Raising Funds for Kiriani HS

Alison Nind and her band of helpers sold crafts and FairTrade chocolate at Currie High School's Christmas Show, Calamity Jane, to raise funds for Kiriani High School in Chogoria. Thanks to the generosity of CCHS parents, staff and pupils, several hundreds pounds was raised to provide basic food and equipment for Kiriani HS.

Raising Funds for Kiriani

Chogoria Partnership Fact Sheet

The following fact sheet on Chogoria and Kenya was used during the S1 sponsored silence to raise funds to pay for the education of girls attending Chogoria Girls High School. Without our support, these girls would not be able to attend school.


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Merry Christmas from the Currieco Team!

Roley's Wood in the snow!

Lot's of people compaining about the snow this week. No complaints about how beautiful Roley's Wood looks though.

Fair Trade stall cards

Click on the photo above to see the fantastic gift cards designed by pupils in S2 for supporting Kiriani Secondary school in Chogoria. These will be sold at the school fair being held in school on Sunday 29 November.

International Eco-School visit to Currie

Currie today played host to a group of 18 visitors from around the world who were attending an International Eco-schools conference in Edinburgh. They came to Currie to see the breadth of activities we do here as part of the Eco-School programme.

Click on the photo above to see more photographs of their visit, mostly taken by pupil Iain McEwan.

Preparing for International Eco-school delegates

Phill Pache our Business Manager putting some final touches to the Energy Group's display.

Paper recycling by 1L1

1L1 did a fantastic job of collecting paper for recycling today. In total they collected a massive 73 kilograms today!

S6 help to litter pick the school grounds

Our fantastic S6 pupils helped to litter pick in the school grounds today in preparation for the international visitors to the school tomorrow. Aren't they just brilliant!

Green Garden Opening

The Green Garden was opened on 1 October 2010 by Eric Melvin, a former head Teacher of the school. Mark Hermiston designed and built the garden.

Please follow this link for more detail on the opening.

http://contactmedia.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=158:green-garden-opening&catid=49:main

International Eco-schools presentation

The following video has been prepared for presentation to a group of international visitors for the International Eco-schools conference.

Africa Trust meeting

Alison Nind, Eric Melvin and Percy Farren met with Christine Knight (HMIE) and Andrew Paterson from the Africa Trust.
Christine and Andrew were on a fact finding visit to see what school partnerships were in place with school in Africa. The Africa Trust is an arms length group set up to promote partnerships with schools in Africa.

CCHS Green Plan 2010-2011

Here is Currie Community High School's Green Plan for Session 2010-2011


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Government visitors come to Currie High School!

A few years ago we had a visit from Jack McConnell and David Milleband.

Here is the presentation given to S1 and S2 pupils about our partnership with Chogoria Girls School. The video which should appear on page 2 is on an earlier post.

Chogoria Presentation Sep 2010

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Currie wins Ashden Award

http://www.ashdenawards.org/UK_schools
Currie Community High School won an Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy in 2009. To find out more visit the link above and check out the Ashden Awards Blog http://ashdenawards.blogspot.com/

Carbon saving is an important and enjoyable part of life for pupils at Currie Community High School which has a long-standing commitment to the environment. Pupils track energy use and make pledges to save energy at home. Simple energy efficiency steps taken over the last 10 years are helping the school save around 70 tonnes of CO2 a year. In 2008 an 11 kW wind turbine was installed to supply electricity along with a 30 kW solar thermal array to heat the swimming pool.

Chogoria and CCHS