Linnvale’s COP 26 litter challenge

 WDC has set COP26 challenges to schools and at Linnvale we have been working hard to tidy our local area.   

Busy times

 We are having a while school focus on COP26 this term.  Classes have started work on their topics and projects and I hope to share their work on here soon.  P6/7 made artwork about the impact climate change has on them and how it makes them feel.  These are poignantly beautiful, aren’t they?

Fibonacci’s Sequence 

Our theee P6/7  Classes have been learning about the Fibonacci sequence and how it is often found in mature. 

Where has the time gone?

 We have been carrying out playground litter surveys, cracking conkers open, writing nature-inspired calligrams, den building, creating slideshows about the plastic problem our planet is facing, surveying the litter in the canal, presenting slideshows and making pie charts, pictograms, Venn diagrams and Carroll diagrams, bar charts of our work and that’s before I mention the information writing which has happened ! I have included P6/7B’s amazing climate change artwork too-beautiful but really thought provoking! 

t’s been non stop and a fantastically productive term.  

Well done to all the classes for their hard work and brilliant attitude! I can’t wait to continue working with you next term,

Miss G 

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P1/2 and the gull!

P1/2 came out in the drizzle to collect natural objects and then sort them. Some children sorted by colour, some by size and others put similar objects together eg leaves, berries and sticks.

On the way back to class, we saw this young gull which was quite taken with a basketball and it would push the ball away then follow it and push it again and again. Do birds play? We don't know but this one certaninly seemed to be fascinated by the ball!

 

Blooming busy!

 It's been all hands on deck this year as the unusually hot weather has meant one very dry poly tunnel! We would love to have a water butt but we are still blighted with unwelcome "visitors" at the weekends and evening who like to wreck anything movable left outside so for just now we are relying on people power to water the plants. Our family gardening group has worked hard and their efforts are paying off!

Have a look below: we have corn, courgettes, peppers, tomatoes, carrots, peas, beetroot, rainbow beetroot, broccoli and watermelon all thriving just now!

Watering the beetroot

Watering the whitecurrant and blackcurrant border

Watering her raised bed

Tending to the corn

Picking a pepper!

From our MSP