Congratulations to Dionne Murray in P7 who has won the design a garden sign competition. 

Here is her winning entry.

P5 have been studying biodiversity this term and for homework they all designed and made their own shoe box habitat. Please see the photos that will be posted shortly.

PC Gary Taylor was in school today to speak to the boys and girls about keeping safe during the fireworks.

Present

• P7 – Owen, Adam, Jamie, Ross

• P6 – Kayren, Joe

• P5 – Daniel, Daniel

• P4 – Clarke, Jack

• P3 – Mairi, Tom

• P2 -

• P1 – Calum

Agenda

1. Appointing Roles

2. Ideas for Garden

3. AOCB

1- Appoint Roles

We discussed what each of the four roles (chair, vice-chair, secretary, treasurer) involved.

Pupils put themselves up for the roles, giving a short speech.

They then voted for each role the person that they thought would do a good job.

Chair – Adam, P7

Vice-chair – Daniel Mc, P5

Secretary – Daniel G, P5

Treasurer – Joe, P6

2 – Ideas for garden

• grow veg

• put netting over the veg

• making a game

• water feature

• water dispersal system

• flowers

• weeding

• shed donated by MFR cash for kids to be built

• decorative flowers/ fake vines for fences

• clay animal footprints

• a sign for the garden

• climbers on the black pillars at the front door

3 – AOCB

The pupils wanted to have another look at the garden to plan where the above things may go.

Present

• P7 – Owen, Jamie, Ross

• P6 – Joe, Kayren

• P5 – Daniel, Daniel

• P4 – Clarke, Jack

• P3 – Tom, Mairi

• P2 – Eilidh, Leah, Emily

• P1 – Calum

Agenda

1. Introductions

2. Eco Week

3. Blog

1 – Introductions

Everyone introduced themselves stating their name, class and why they wanted to be part of the garden committee.

2 – Eco Week

Eco week will be held on 27.9.10.

To go back to classes and ask what they want to do for it.

Some suggestions from the group:

• banners

• eco t-shirts

• plant flowers

• wear yellow and green

3- Blog

Miss Dunbar showed blog and reminded that the action plan could be found there and the minutes from the meeting would be displayed there too.

Miss Bowman and Miss Jones will be holding an additional eco meeting on Monday 20th September at 12.55pm so that they can discuss the ideas for eco week.

We will be holding an eco week from Monday 27th September.

If you have any ideas on what we could do, please leave a comment or tell your eco/garden rep so they can feed back at the next meeting.

Our focus this session is to maintain the areas from last year and concentrate on

• water

• transport

• biodiversity

If anyone has any ideas or skills to share, please get in touch!