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Today in P6 we took part in a full day of online workshops to help us to learn more about climate change. We are now climate ready classrooms. We are aware that any small change can make an impact on the environment. We have now produced an action plan as a stage of the small differences we can make.
Rumaysa was our chief water temperature scientist. She helped us to measure the water temperatures for our investigation hourly throughout the day.
St John’s took part in the HUSS (Hands Up Scotland Survey) this week. This is an annual survey across Scotland to establish how children normally get to school. We submitted 362 responses across our nursery and primary school setting.
In St John’s we will continue to promote Active travel by using the WOW travel tracker tool in classes, children who walk, scoot, cycle or park and stride to school can earn a monthly badge for their efforts.
As always, we would encourage everyone who can, to travel actively to school, it supports physical and emotional health, helps with local pollution and helps alleviate parking issues around the school.
We are excited to start up our eco group again, and take our first steps towards our next green flag! This year’s group have been elected by their classmates, and will be working with Miss Redman, Mrs Gargaro and Miss McCaughey to make our school a more sustainable place!
The reps are:
P3A – Phoebe and Addison
P3B – Ignacy and Katie
P4A – Ellie and Declan
P4B – Eassa and Emma
P5A – Amilya and Thomas
P5B – Helena and Emma
P6A – Macy and Oliwia
P6B – Amelia and Cezary
P7A – Faith and Sandy
P7B – Aidan and Sam
P3A were shocked at all the litter they saw in Treverlen Park this morning but we made sure the community park was sparkling by the time we were done!
‘We went litter picking and we found lots of rubbish’ – Lily
‘We saved the planet!’ – Lorenzo
‘We helped save the environment by going litter picking’ – Michael
Well done P3A our Litter picking superheroes!
The past two weeks P3 have been going on Bumblebee safaris around the playground. We have lots of bumblebees visiting St Johns so it has been very exciting to spot them.
Below are a few photos of bees and children looking at bees, the first bee feeding on the lavender is a Common Carder Bumblebee and the bee flying across the lavender is a Red Tailed Bumblebee. Both are Queen bees which is exciting because it means the first colony has done well enough to produce Queens so will have another generation before the winter comes. Its a big plus of lock down that there has been less mowing and so more food for the bees! We also have an identifier sheet on the blog so we can spot the different bees and their roles.
Next week and the week after we will make bug hotels. If any children have sticks or dry materials from their gardens they would like to donate to this project we would be grateful. We will place the mini bug hotels around the playground and in the park.
Good work P3!
