Feel Good Factor from Volunteering to Litter Pick

What a great way to end Mental Health Week on Friday 12th May with members of our ECO Group and P6 pupils, led by Mr Hutchison, volunteering to make a difference to our School Grounds and local area with an Eco Schools Clean Up Scotland litter picking session, sponsored by Keep Scotland Beautiful and Greggs.

Togged up, litter pickers at the ready, briefed and ready to go!

The team was very pleased to note that there was actually hardly any litter at all in our school playground so we had to look further afield in the surrounding area. P6 and P7 efforts can contribute to their Junior Award Scheme for Schools (JASS) awards in 'Me and my World.' Well done, all, and thank you very much for taking the time to make a difference!

 

Mrs Noble gave everyone a Headteacher's Award sticker

After tidying up and handwashing it was time for some yummy treats, courtesy of Greggs.

Thank you, Mr Hutchison, for organising and leading the event.

Clean Up Litter Pick Friday 20th May 12.05pm-1.00pm

Sciennes' ECO Team has organised a clean up campaign in the local area around the school on Friday 20th May between 12.05pm and 1pm. Meet outside the school Hall to be given a tabard, gloves, a litter picker and bin bags.

Please email admin@sciennes.edin.sch.uk if you are able to come along and help out.
Thank you.

Grade 'A' Today!

Some of our Eco Team members were at the ready today with our brand new litter pickers and found... they didn't need to use them! Great impact from Arleen's ChangeWorks Litter Assembly on Friday with her message which challenged us all to reduce litter and waste and aim for a Grade 'A' playground! Let's keep it that way!

ChangeWorks Waste and Litter Assembly

On Friday 4th March at Assembly, Arleen Sinclair from ChangeWorks successfully challenged P4-7 pupils to think about how we can reduce waste by recycling and re-using and how to make sure our playground and school are Grade A Litter Free. Our ECO team will meet next week (Waste Week) to discus and decide how to take forward improvements.

Sciennes Waste Week P4-7 Assembly 4.3.16 from SciennesPS

Global Goal 12

Article 29 You have the right to education which develops your personality, respect for others’ rights and the environment.

ChangeWorks Litter Assembly

Joe Alves gave a Waste Reduction presentation to P4-P7 pupils at Assembly on Friday 10th October, with a particular focus on Litter.

Miss Kirsty Gallagher takes on the role of Eco Leader and will be working with the Eco Group after the October holiday.

Joe Alves, ChangeWorks

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Autumn clean up

Thank you to the Sciennes families who stayed back a wee while after school yesterday to support our Clean Up campaign.

Children from P1 to P7 enthusiastically wielded litter pickers and bin bags supplied by the Council and Keeping Scotland Beautiful.

With the help of their parents, Mrs Nowell and Mrs Mackay, we completely filled one of the big school bins with what we found in just half an hour!

It has been found that where litter is already present in an area people are more likely to drop their litter. Hopefully, just by making the Sciennes area cleaner, we will deter people from dropping litter in future.

Keeping Sciennes Beautiful

Our eco-committee is enthusiastically supporting Edinburgh's Clean Up day of action on 29 November, and invites all children from P1 to P7 to bring a parent or carer along and take part!

Litter can be a problem in our school grounds. A constant frustration for our many ecologically-minded children is that a good deal of the litter we collect seems to blow into our playground from the surrounding streets.

To help tackle this, we will meet at school on Friday 29th November at 12.20pm to collect litter from our nearby streets and green spaces.

You are welcome join us and to stay for as long or as short as you wish. However, we ask that all children be accompanied and supervised by a responsible adult.

If you have a litter picker at home, and suitable gloves, please bring them along!