Carmuirs Carmuirs Eco School News Eco School News

Assembly Assembly 2014 2014

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Carmuirs Carmuirs Eco School News Eco School News

Assembly Assembly 2014 2014

performed to the whole performed to the whole school in preparation for our school in preparation for our

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10 Areas of Eco• Litter

• Waste Minimisation• School Grounds

• Biodiversity• Energy

• Transport• Health and Wellbeing

• Food and the Environment• Water

• Sustaining our world

Litter

• A litter rota was set up for the p7’s to complete but sadly this has not been done regularly by p7 .

• Litter pick has been arranged for Friday 6th June

Litter• The school has many bins– So ‘Stash

yer Trash’• This also applies in the dinner hall

‘Feed me!’

Food in the Environment/Waste

Minimisation• We all love food but lots of it is still

wasted which is a big problem for the environment.

Food in the Environment/ Waste

MinimisationDid you know every year in Scotland

we waste:• 2.6 million slices of bread• £70 million of fresh fruit• 7,700 tonnes of vegetables• £93 million of dairy waste such as

milk and cheese

Food in the Environment?

• We recycle our food waste in the silver caddy. We have one in the dining room, packed lunch hall and even our teachers have one in the staff room! You might even have one at home...

What can go in the silver caddy’s?

Food In the Environment

What happens to the silver caddy food?

• It goes to a factory in Cumbernauld

• The food is separated form the bags in a machine

• The food is then mixed with tiny creatures called microorganisms who munch on it.

• The little beasties make a bio gas which is then used as a renewable energy source to power over 1000 homes.

• The food waste is also used as a fertiliser by Scottish farmers.

Food In the Environment

Lets Cookprogramme

for P7• The children have

been learning how to prepare traditional healthy meals. These are life skills for the future

Food In the EnvironmentP7 Cooking

• P7 have been enjoying following recipes as part of their topic on WW2 and India.

Food In the Environment

P6 Examining Food Miles

• P6 will be investigating how far some foods have to travel to get to our houses and how much this effects the environment.

Food In the Environment

P5 Fair-trade Coffee Morning

• P5 will be organising a Fair-trade Coffee morning in June this year.

Food In the Environme

ntP4 Food

and Farming?

• P4 visited local farms to learn about where our food comes from.

Food In the Environment

• P4 planted their own vegetables to help reduce food miles and to source food locally.

Food In the Environmen

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• P4 visited Tesco to investigate food labelling and to see how far some of our food has to travel.

Food In the Environment

P2 will soon be making fruit kebabs to sell.

Food In the Environment

Tesco Eat Happy Project

• A wee surprise for the Golden Book Winners...

Sustaining Our World

• P5 fair trade coffee morning and Rights Respecting Schools contributions.

• P6 will be learning about deforestation and renewable energy and carbon footprints.

Sustaining Our World

• P3 shoe box appeal.• They filled shoe boxes with lots of

goodies to send to children in poorer countries.

• They also wrote letters to the council asking them to provide more bins to protect the environment in the local woods.

• They then took part in the Big Canal Clean up in association with Tesco.

• P3 presented their assembly this year on Rights Respecting Schools

School Grounds

We now have a new train to play on in

the playground.

And we will soon have our bus in the garden – Yeah!

Biodiversity

• The Helix Project have donated a huge selection of plants to the school and we will be panning an eco planting day to put them around the school

Transport

• We will be taking part in the Walk to school week on the 26th May.

Health and Wellbeing

• BIG FIT WALK

• All year there has been lots of Commonwealth Activities taking place as part of Falkirk’s Going for Glasgow

RECYCLING

At Carmuirs every class has an Eco responsibility linked to recycling ...

Recycling• P4 recycle old clothes and

textiles through the rag bag collection. The company collect from Carmuirs 4 times a year and we get money for every kg of weight. The last collection got us nearly £60 so well done!

• You were all recently given bags for the next collection so please help us out!

Going For GREEN 3rd time WOW

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