Gracemount gets silver!
At the end of the last academic year Gracemount High was awarded an Eco-Schools Silver award in recognition of all the great environmental work that goes on in the school.
The school’s next step is to aim for the top award of a Green Flag.
To help kick-start this effort, Gracemount High School held its first ever ‘Eco-week’ in September.
The staff and pupils got together with the learning and engagement team from Services for Communities to organise a campaign to raise awareness about litter in the school and in the community.
Activities during the week included:
- assemblies to highlight the issues caused by litter
- social education lessons devoted to litter issues and an eco-quiz
- the Council’s Environmental Wardens carrying out unannounced patrols around the school at lunchtimes along with their CCTV van
- the S1s carrying out a litter-pick up in the school grounds with clean-up kits provided by the Council – in total 30 bags of rubbish were collected as well as two big bags of plastic bottles for recycling
- a ‘car-free day’ for staff and pupils travelling to school, with two members of staff walking over four miles to school!
- S3 Art & Design students taking part in this year’s Charity Chic event, buying clothes from charity shops and turning them into fashionable items of couture.
Need to know
More info about Eco-Schools at www.ecoschoolsscotland.org.uk
Contact for Learning & Engagement at ecoschoolsinedinburgh@edinburgh.gov.uk