Planting trees at Muddisdale!

Classes 1C, 1F, 1A and P7 all got very busy at Muddisdale plainting trees with Jenny from the Woodland Trust. Hopefully these trees will grow to a good size and we can appreciate them for many years to come.

Here we are at various stages of the process!

Phew! That was hard work!!

Getting busy!P7 were so supportive of the younger children.

Happy teams finishing a good job.

Excellent work - high five time!

Working together.

Getting the plastic pushed down to stop the weeds choking the tree.

Fairtrade Fortnight - Bunting World Record

We decorated the Eco board with our Fairtrade bunting! There were 60 flags in total.

These have now been sent off to the Fairtrade Foundation as part of a Guinness World Record attempt to make the longest and fairest ever piece of bunting.

The current record is 2,696 metres and the target proposed is 4,350 metres (over two and a half miles).

Let's hope the target is reached and we have done something to make a difference!

Earth Hour 2011

We are looking towards a bright future and Earth Hour 2011 gives us the opportunity to share hope for this. People all over the world will be switching their lights off for one hour to show that they care about protecting our world and tackling climate change.

We are planning to switch all the lights off in Glaitness on Friday between 11.30am and 12.30pm to mark this event.

Then at home on Saturday evening at 8.30pm you can do the same there. Get the word out and make a difference!

http://scotland.wwf.org.uk/how_you_can_help/campaign_with_wwf_scotland22/earth_hour_scotland_2011/

Check out the Earth Hour Scotland website too and hte Earth Hour 2011 video clip.

Fairtrade Fortnight

We have been raising awareness of fair trade products. Morgan and Neve highlighted this at our business meeting on Monday.

We have launched Glaitness Fairtrade Fortnight with a mini football league using fairly traded footballs.

We are also having promotions in our healthy tuck shop, the Snack Shack - banana milkshakes, Geo bars and other fairly traded goodies!

We also plan to take part in forming the world's longest piece of bunting made from fairly traded cotton!

Keep an eye on the space for photos and updates! Try out the link below to find out more!

http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/fortnight

Feeding the birds

On Wednesday 24th November, Sue Whitworth from RSPB came to show us how to make bird food so that we can help our feathered friends to survive in the cold winter weather.

For the food balls we needed some lard, seeds, dried fruit and even some porridge oats!
We squeezed it all together and moulded it into balls.
Next we added a perch made out of twigs and some string to hang them up by.
We will hang them among the trees in the playground after they have hardened a bit in the fridge.

We also made some 'worms'! Mrs Whitworth mixed some wholemeal flour, suet and water together to make a sort of dough.

We rolled little bits into worm shapes for the birds to pick up from the ground.

We looked at pictures of the types of birds we will be helping and learned that some birds don't like to eat from tables but prefer to pick their food from the ground.
We hope the birds will enjoy their treats!

Home grown carrots!

The Green Fingers Garden Group planted carrots in the courtyard earlier this year and some of them still needed to be harvested.

Mrs Scott made some delicious carrot cake for the Snack Shack to sell at playtime. We sold some raw carrot sticks as well. It all sold out very quickly!

Waste survey

We are very lucky at Glaitness to have a selection of tasty, healthy meals to choose from at lunchtime.

 

Our cooks were concerned about the amount of food that is wasted at lunchtime so we set up a food survey last term to see if we could have less waste.

Each sitting at lunchtime had the waste weighed and we kept a chart to compare sittings and to see if the amount got less as the weeks went on.

We're going to really try to have clean plates from now on!