ECO SCHOOLS
ECO SCHOOL ACTION PLAN 2010
WASTE MINIMISATION
- Continue to promote Waste Free Wednesday. All bins will be closed and everyone will be challenged to bring no waste materials to school. Eco Committee to hold a ‘No Paper Day’
- Set up Rag Bag collections.
- Organise a clothes swap and do a ‘clothes miles’ investigation.
LITTER
- Termly pickups. Results recorded and issues shared with school at assemblies and via website and newsletters.
SCHOOL GROUNDS
- Obtain funding to build an outdoor classroom with improved storage for school resources. The outdoor classroom would provide a base for Boat Bugs.
TRANSPORT
- JRSOs to continue to promote walking and cycling to school by introducing an award scheme.
- JRSOs to make cycle safety film for showing at an assembly.
- Set up walking bus.
SUSTAINING OUR WORLD
- Carry out a Global Foot Printing exercise; encouraging pupils to think about their lifestyles.
- Use food grown in school to run an enterprise project and study food bought at a local supermarket. Pupils will find out where food has come from and look at impact on areas where food was grown and air miles involved in getting food to the supermarket.
WATER
- Install reduce flow mechanisms in taps.
ENERGY
- Continue to monitor electricity use and try to reduce by comparing units used with same period in previous year. Use electricity use monitor to identify where and when there is a heavy use of electricity.
HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
- Make raised beds for growing a variety of vegetables.
BIODIVERSITY
- Create a bumblebee and butterfly sanctuary. Grow flowers and plants in woodland area at rear of school.
- Carry out pond and mini-beast surveys.
- Feed birds and draw up a bird list for 2010.
- Survey grounds for bats.
Pupils in P1-4 planting potatoes in the new raised beds in May 2010
We have been awarded our SECOND GREEN FLAG. The assessment took place on Thursday 26th Novemeber.
Well done everybody.
GREEN FLAG AWARD
FRIDAY 7 DECEMBER 2007
Members of the school's Eco Committee with their certificates for achieving GREEN FLAG ECO SCHOOL status after the inspection on Friday 7th December.
John Muir Award
Primary 6 and 7 took part in a John Muir Discovery Award from January to May 2008. They found out about red squirrels living in the woods near school. With help from Juliet Robinson, Highland Red Squirrel Group, and Heather Bantick, BoG Wildlife Group, the children produced leaflets to accompany a walk through the wood. The artwork and research from the leaflets was then used to produce an information board that has been erected at the edge of the woods between the school and the village.
Alan Smith from Cairngorm national Park and Heather Bantick unveil the completed information panel.
Primary 6 and 7 receive their John Muir Award certificates.
ECO SCHOOL ACTION WEEK SEPTEMBER 2009