Mosaic panels are up!

The beautiful mosaic panels made from recycled bottle tops by pupils now in S3 for their JASS award have been installed in the LRC and look fantastic.  The rainbow, peacock butterfly and orange tip butterfly (sitting on red flower with its wings shut) have been getting lots of praise from pupils, staff and visitors alike.  Thanks to all the pupils involved last term, and the wonderful Mr Hermiston for putting them up!

For photos of them as a work in progress check out the blog posts from June 2013!

Recycling bins given a new lease of life

Noorislam Uddin in S5 has designed some fantastic new labels for our packaging recycling bins in the school.  Please remember these are for empty plastic bottles, cartons and cans only. No wrappers!  Thanks Noorislam, they're brilliant!

Litter

Our actions to tackle litter in and around school continue.   The Eco-Committee have designed a Litter-o-Meter that is on display in our main foyer. Each lunchtime the cleaner rates the litter left from 'Really rubbish' to 'No rubbish' and results are shared in the pupil bulletin at the end of each week.

At our last Eco Committee meeting we invited two members of Currie Community Council (the Enviornmental and Education Convenors) as well as Councillor Bill Henderson and PC Dee, our school link police officer.   Litter in the community was the subject of our discussions, and what we can do as a school to help.  Sophie and Sally are going to write a letter to Cllr Henderson requesting an additional bin for the grassy area behind Woodlands School.   We also talked about making an anti-litter video, asking school neighbours why it would be good to stop littering.

Volunteers from S3 xl did a litter pick of Roley's Wood yesterday and collected 4 bags of litter, mainly from around the bridge area. Well done them!

Contributions to a bug hotel wanted!

We are trying to make a bug hotel to make a habitat for animals to have a home in the school grounds. If you have any of the things in the list below, please bring them to behind the big blue container at the back of the school. 

We need:

Old logs
Pottery plant pots
Bricks with holes in them
Plastic and pottery tubes / drain pipes
Pottery roof tiles
Garden canes

Broken and dirty ones are fine.  

Thank you very much from the S1 school grounds volunteers

 

 

More Eco news from last term

Mr Sharpe's National 4 English class read the Carbon Diaries 2015, a novel about a young person's life in the UK in 2015 after drastic carbon rationing to combat runaway climate change. They then independently researched alternative fuels as a critical skills challenge.  Pupils presented the fruits of their research to staff and pupils from other classes in a 'Alternative Fuels Expo'. Nuclear fuels were voted best presentational stand - well done them!

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this year's Blythswood Shoe Box Appeal. Mrs Mackenzie and Mrs Reid were overwhelmed by the support shown by pupils during lunchtimes, wrapping, sorting and packing the boxes. We were able to send off 70 boxes to help bring some hope this Christmas.

Last term, S3 drama classes were invited to collaborate in a project with P1 at Currie Primary School to recreate Fairy Land in Roley's Wood. The P1s were studying a project in which Fairy Land has been destroyed due to the reduction in people believing in fairy tales and not reading enough. On Monday 28 October, the fairy tale characters landed in Roley's Wood and met the Primary 1 pupils. The Primary 1s met the fairy tale characters, found out about the predicaments they were in and helped to support their journey back to Fairy Land - by promising to read lots and continue to believe in Fairy Land.  This was a great opportuity for S3 pupils to experience Promenade theatre and Theatre in Education and they really enjoyed meeting with three classes of P1 pupils.