Planting up the veggie beds

Mrs Dobbie's Intermediate 1 Biology class started planting up the school vegetable beds this morning. Pupils have a raised bed each or between pairs, and are choosing a selection of vegetables to plant in their bed. Today we sowed onion sets and carrot and beetroot seeds straight into the soil. Others, like courgettes, pumpkins and lettuce we are starting off in small pots in the greenhouse.

Carefully sowing a row of carrot seed

Planting a block of onions in the middle of the bed

Fair-trade healthy food packaging - Design Project

Art & Design have teamed up with Home Economics to design a healthy food product. S2s have created the product in HE and have designed the packaging in A&D. We have focused on the importance of Fair-trade.

Eco Art Wall Progress

1W1 started painting their designs onto the panels today. Our S6 helper, Ayisha, is making a panel of her own - see below!

Earth Hour

The lights go out in the foyer...

This Saturday 26 March 128 countries around the world will be celebrating Earth Hour - turning all lights off for one hour from 8.30pm, local time, to show we care about tackling climate change.
At Currie we joined more than 450 other schools in Scotland in marking the event this Friday 25th. The Energy Group asked all staff and pupils to turn their lights off Periods 1 & 2 (where safe) to mark Earth Hour 2011.Lots of other electrical equipment was switched off during this time.
The Energy Group also requested that all group tutors show a 3 minute video of Earth Hour during the extended registration.

Staff composting

We've just added a compost bin to our staff room for tea bags, banana skins etc - all fruit and vegetable waste.
The fruit and veg waste composted at school will be put back into the veggie and flower beds once its turned into nice compost.

More work on the Eco Art Wall...

Today, work began on the “second phase” of the Eco Art Wall! 1H2 and Mrs Steel started the project by researching Scottish wildlife before venturing out into the Green Garden to do some observational drawing and to view our site!

English in the sunshine

Ms Jordan's S2 English class enjoyed some sunshine out in Roley's Wood this morning. We looked at trees from different perspectives, found our own unique special place in the woodland and did a sound map of the area, all to help inspire some descriptive writing back in the classroom.