Sponsored Walk

The current total raised from our whole school sponsored walk is currently £5166.98 with some money still to come in! Well done everyone. We hope to have some pictures of the event up soon. We were wearing colours of the Kenyan flag and raising money for our partnership with Chogoria High School.

Focus Environment Photography Competition

Art & Design are pleased to announce the winners of our S4/5 Summer Photography Project. Themes were ‘My Environment’, ‘Wildlife& Habitats’ and ‘Nature’s Moods’. Winners were chosen by the Senior Leadership Team. Winners were :

1^st Prize: Kiera Dobbie, ‘Night Flight’

2^nd Prize: Claire Twist, ‘Path’

3^rd Prize: Jessica Sullivan, ‘Station’

Highly Commended:

Hannah McPherson, Stella Lane, Laura Butcher, Callum Wallace, Cameron Finlayson and Ronan Dance.

Well done to all exhibitors for your interesting and sophisticated work! See the lovely photographs exhibited along the corridor outside Mrs McKinnon’s office. 

Vegetables at school

Pupils in Home Economics have been using our school-grown vegetables in classes since we've come back to school after the summer - courgette fritters, beetroot salad and even beetroot in chocolate cake!
 

Courgettes and cucumbers in the greenhouse

Beetroot in a raised bed

Courgettes outside

Bottletop mosaics are finished!

We're hoping to have these beautiful panels up displayed in the LRC very soon.



 

The finished panels

An orangetip butterfly resting on a flower

Sponsored Walk for Chogoria

One more day to go before our whole school sponsored walk, raising money for our partnership with Chogoria High School, Kenya! We sponsor 4 pupils to attend the Chogoria High, and we're also raising money to support a group of pupils and staff from Currie High School to go out to visit Chogoria next summer.  The school has been decorated in pupil-designed posters for weeks now, and pupils have been hard at work getting sponsors for their walk.   We'll be dressed in the colours of the Kenyan flag and hoping for a dry day!

For a fantastic promotional video based on our last sponsored walk, check this out....

CurriEco Nest record Scheme 2013 - BTO Nest Records.

What happened to our roof-nesting Oystercatchers?

Our remaining Oystercatcher chick flew off with its parents on the first weekend of the summer break, so June 29th or 30th.  They have probably gone to the coast. In some parts of the Forth coast people call them Mussel-peckers because they see them feeding on shellfish on the rocks.

On a visit to our roof we found the shallow scrape in some moss, hardly a nest, where the eggs had originally been laid.  Since the chick was ringed there is a possibility that we will learn more about its life in the future.


A young oystercatcher. (This one is not ours though!)

The school buildings seem very quiet since they left!   Although there is a good chance the Oysterctachers have produced young here in previous years, this is the first time we are sure a chick grew to flying size!  Great!

That is the final chapter in the Nest Records story in 2013.  The remaining record cards will now be sent to the BTO. Thanks to all the Currie ecologists who took part in the monitoring and recording, and to everyone else who took an interest in our breeding birds this year!

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.