Entries Tagged 'Eco Committee' ↓

Thanks to all parents who sent in their Christmas cards for recycling.  We collected a massive 2765 cards.  Take a look at our photos below to see how we counted them.  We decided to put them into piles of 20 and then count up all the piles at the end.  There were soo many that [...]

Primary 1 had a lot of fun during Eco week in late April! Here are a small selection of photos.

The Eco Committee met today to reflect back on last week’s Eco Week. We were all in agreement that it was a real success! Highlights included the Animal Man’s amazing reptiles, the whole school Litter pick-up, the mini-beast hunt and talks about recycling and making pretty things from old things. We also discovered that there [...]

We are proud to tell you that Eco Week is just round the corner. We will be having a Eco assembly on Thursday 26th of April. We are busy making posters to put up around the school to tell the rest of the school when the assembly is. We will also be doing a whole [...]

During Fairtrade fortnight, Loretto made its first steps to becoming a Fairtrade school.  The children from P4-7 took part in a Fairtrade poster competition at the Brunton Hall.  All Musselburgh schools entered posters and we won six out of the possible eight prizes!  Well done to all the pupils who took part, but especially to [...]

Today at the eco meeting Miss Capaldi  talked to us  about having an eco week. We are going to be having  a whole school assembly,an eco logo competition, a whole school litter pick up,  wrapper free snacks and much more. We shared our ideas for the eco week and came up with a couple.  Two people counted [...]

The eco comomittee have been working on keeping our school and our playground eco tidy.We are trying to achive  our silver award by doing a environmental  review.Today we have been working on our action plan and our composting and paper  reycling rota.  We are giving the younger ones a chance to see how we do the [...]

The Eco Committee held their first meeting of 2012 today. We will be holding a logo competition soon for the whole school. Children will have to draw a logo for the eco committee,it  must be something to do with the eco committee. At this meeting we were traffic lighting our eco display, labelling our compost [...]

Latest News: The Eco Committee has been working very hard this session trawling through a huge Environmental audit!  We’ve been looking carefully at the ten key topics – Litter, Waste Minimisation, Energy, Water, Health and Wellbeing, Biodiversity, Transport, School Grounds, Sustaining our World and Food and Environment.  Phew!  We plan to traffic light our progress [...]