Today we had a recycling event in school and also we had some very exciting, tiny visitors.
Children and staff in S1 have put a bird box outside of their classroom a while ago and have been watching the birds bring in food to the bird box over the last couple of weeks.
Today they saw 2 baby blue tit birds leave the box for the first time. We are delighted to have nature on our doorstep and the children were fascinated, watching the fledglings fly all over the yard and then return to their bird box home.
We were visited by 2 guests from the Blackburn with Darwen Environmental Education Team who joined us for our recycling event - Shamim Abbas (Environmental Education officer) and Stuart Hammond (Environment & Operations Department Manager).
We learnt all about recycling – what it is? Which items we can and can’t recycle and which bins to put recyclable items in
Then we shared a game with our friends where we assigned rubbish into the 4 different bins – blue, burgundy, grey and brown.
All enjoyed it and learnt something from the experience.
In the afternoon S4 used sand and stones to filter some very dirty water, it slowly trickled through the filter they had made and they were all very pleased to see it had worked - though they didn’t drink it!
We all like to learn about caring for our environment, and how amazing is it that our school has become a baby bird nursery too?!
