Today we had an Eco Day. Everyone in the school was involved. In Primary 3 our day was very busy right from the start. In the morning some of us made and painted clay farm animals, others stripped wheat seeds to plant and the remainder painted lollipop sticks and made fences. These were all going to be used later in the day to fill our class trough box in the school grounds. We also all helped to make two large scarecrows. What fun we had stuffing them with straw and scrunched up paper!
Between break and lunchtime Barry Tapster gave us a very interesting talk on recycling. We learned the differences between recycling and landfill rubbish disposal. Did you know that plastic bottles take 500 years to break down in the soil or that these same plastic bottles can be recycled to make a fleece? It really does make much more sense to put them into our kerbie bins!
We also enjoyed going on a Nature walk with some members of the Eco committee. We saw the Hedgehog hotel, the pond in the quiet garden and the bug farm. Mrs McCullagh told us that the Eco committee were busy today planting fruit trees and bushes. Soon we will have plums, apples, cherries and raspberries growing in the school grounds. She also told us that the Eco committee will be using some logs and old tyres to make an activity trail that we can all enjoy.
After lunchtime we all went outside to decorate our Primary 3 trough box. As our current topic in class is "From farm to Fork" we made a farm in our box. Some of us made a big mound of earth while others built stone walls from slate and placed the farm buildings. Then we put in the fences and animals that we had made earlier. We all had a chance to sow something too. We are going to grow grass, wheat, carrots and scallions in our box. to finish it off we placed a tractor in one of the fields. We worked right up until hometime . . . what a busy day!
Next time you are visiting the school look over by the painted wall and you will see our scarecrows and trough box. We hope that you will like them as much as we do!
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