Thank you very much to Ian Wager, Senior Specialist Air Scientist at the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) for installing an Air Quality sensor. We hope to see a drop in emissions when the road is temporarily closed for the Summer Fair on Saturday 3rd June and will analyse data from the sensor with pupils over the next few weeks in the run up to National Clean Air Day on 15th June.
On Friday 20th May at our P4-7 Assembly we celebrated all the fabulous
Language learning that has been happening at Sciennes, so ably led by Ms
Bethan Owen, and thanked our three wonderful Language volunteers,
Isabel, Sergio and Miguel, as well as our excellent final year Bilingual
Primary Education student, Ana Vidal, from Madrid University.
We made
suggestions for cultural activities that our children might get involved
in over the weekend to celebrate UN World Day for Cultural Diversity on
May 21st and were delighted to note so many of our children already
take part in similar activities to the ones suggested.
We also looked
forward to Sciennes Parent Council's exciting International Fair on
SATURDAY 4th JUNE 12pm-3pm and found out more about the mysterious
yarnbombing phenomenon, which has decorated our playground overnight!
Next week, each class will contribute to City of Edinburgh's 1+2 Twitter
campaign and we used some examples of Tweets already happening this
week, to give everyone ideas!
We started the day at 8am with a 'Walking
Bus' and ended it at 12pm with an ECO Schools Clean Up Campaign. P6
pupils Laura and Arooj explained very clearly and confidently how these
two events helped us make a difference in tackling Climate Change
(Global Goal 13).
Unfortunately we ran out of time to hear from our Sports Captains on
the presentations they have created about Olympic Values and Fencing,
and the Day for Change count is still ongoing! Another very busy week at
Sciennes!
On Friday 22nd April, we celebrated Earth Day by watching the Climate Coalition's film (scripted by Michael Morpurgo and starring Jeremy Irons) and Greenpeace's "Give the Earth a Hand" video.
We also commemorated the 400th Anniversary
of the death of William Shakespeare (23rd April 1616) and asked pupils to play their part in making a difference.
A feeder ride will meet tomorrow at Sciennes at 11.00am to join the main Pedal on Parliament ride at 12.00pm on the Meadows, Saturday 23rd April, and pupils were encouraged to continue to walk, scoot and cycle to school, to play their part in tackling climate change.
91 Primary Six pupils got together on Tuesday evening to Make and Share a collage heart of natural materials scavenged in the grounds of Benmore Outdoor Education Centre. They were keen to get involved in a Valentine's Day campaign to raise awareness of Climate Change and #ShowTheLove for what could be lost.
Some members of our community might be interested in supporting the upcoming Friends of the Earth Scotland Climate Change march at the Meadows November 28th 12pm. "Show your colours for climate, justice & jobs.
Join the worldwide movement marching for a better future. Ahead of the UN climate change negotiations in Paris, we’ll stand up for people affected by rising global temperatures and demand that world leaders agree an ambitious deal.
A low carbon society will create green jobs, improve our transport and food systems and protect our land, air and water. Scotland needs to show its colours in Paris and beyond with strong action on climate change.
Wear your brightest colours as Scotland marches on this weekend of global action.
Everyone is encouraged to attend so please invite your friends, families and followers.
The march is organised by Stop Climate Chaos Scotland (SCCS), a diverse
coalition of organisations in Scotland campaigning together on climate
change. Coalition members include environment, faith and international
development organisations, trade and student unions and community
groups.
To have a fun and successful march, we are
relying on volunteers to help us steward. Could you help us on the day?
For more information send an email to Paul - paul@stopclimatechaosscotland.org
