Bottletop mosaics in progress

The S2 JASS bottletop mosaics are going to be fantastic! The group completed two of the three panels yesterday after school, featuring a rainbow and a peacock butterfly. We'll try to do the third panel one day next week so they can be put up in the LRC over the holidays. 

 

Well done to Jenna, Billie and Erin for seeing the project right through to completion. Thanks to John for all his help, Mr Hermiston for sourcing all the materials and Mrs Steel for helping translate Jenna's designs into the final beautiful mosaics.

New eco display

The eco committee have been working on a new display that highlights all the fantastic work done at Currie over the last two years. We've been focussing on three different Eco topics:
- Litter
- Food and the Environment
- Sustaining Our World

The Eco Committee decided to make a tree with three parts, and show our actions in words and pictures as leaf shapes.

Early next session we'll do an Environmental Review of the whole school to see how we're doing and get ideas on how to improve. Then we'll choose some new topics to focus our efforts on.  If you have any ideas on how Currie High can be more sustainable please let someone from the Eco Committee know, or put your idea into the Suggestion Box in the LRC.

Refugee Week

This is Refugee Week! The Amnesty International group has put bulletin notices in every day to raise awareness of refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland. We are also showing the following 2 minute film in the school foyer, and at registration. Do have a look...

www.scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk/courage

John Muir Award Celebration

The xl group (new S4) held their John Muir Award celebration experience today. They had made beautiful cards for staff inviting them to join us in the woods.  Everyone spoke about activities they had done towards their John Muir Award, as part of their 'Share' challenge for the award itself. Mrs McKinnon gave everyone their Discovery Award certificate, and then we all cooked damper bread over a wee fire in the woods. Congratulations everyone!

Nest Records Update (Currie Ecology Nest Records - BTO Nest Record Scheme)

The rooftop Oystercatcher chick just before it is let go, back to its parents.

Our BTO licensed ringer carefully fits the chick with its ring and number:

FA81541.

A quick 'hello' to Currie Ecology pupils.

 

Date:  13th  June 2013. UPDATE 3
Nest Box  No./ Nest record No.	Location	Species		Nesting Activity	Notes
1/	Quad.	Blue Tit		-	A few days ago only 4 healthy chicks remained but they were growing well. Today they were dead – cause unknown.  The adults were still present and looking after the box, so could have been disease.
2/	Front (Sparrow)				Apparently unoccupied
3/	Front (Sparrow)				Apparently unoccupied
4/	Front (Sparrow)				Apparently unoccupied
5/	Roley’s Wood	Blue Tit		-	This was a failed nest.
6/	Roley’s Wood	Great Tit		Successful nest	Should be fledged and away by now.
7/	Roley’s Wood			TBC	Still to be re-visited
8/	Roley’s Wood			TBC	Still to be re-visited.  Someone disturbed the box by trying to take it off the tree.
Open Nests
	Quad.			Successful nest	4 chicks fledged
	Main building roof	Oyster- catcher		Two chicks were running freely with pin feathers – one found dead today.	The larger healthy chick was ringed, number FA81541. There were some Herring Gulls loafing around so the dead chick might be a result of an attempt at predation.

Its summer!

Things are growing in our school grounds!

Soft fruit bushes planted last year by Explorer Scouts

Courgettes

 

Oats! We're hoping to make oat cakes eventually!

Radishes are coming on well

Everything in the greenhouse looks great!

Duke of Edinburgh volunteers

4 S3 volunteers have been helping with school grounds maintenance and improvement every Wednesday after school from March this year. We've weeded vegetable beds, sowed bee-friendly flower seed, built a ladder in a pond to prevent hedgehogs from accidentally drowning, set up an automatic watering system in the greenhouse and helped keep the grounds and Roley's Wood free from litter! Thanks to Josh, Blair, Cary and Dylan for all their hard work for the Volunteering section of their D of E Award!