Welcome to our Eco-Schools Section
What is Eco-Schools?
Most young people care deeply about environmental issues.
The Eco-Schools programme is an international initiative designed to encourage whole-school action for the environment.
The aim of the Eco-Schools programme is to make environmental awareness and action an intrinsic part of the life and ethos of the school for both pupils and for staff, and to engage the wider community.
Portree High have joined eco schools and have committed to the following three topics:
- Litter
- Waste minimisation
- Biodiversity
For the biodiversity section we have a garden that we have been developing, you can read about it in the press release and school garden pages.
If you don’t know already, students in the support for learning department have been working on a small garden. We are creating lots of vegetable beds and planting hedges around the edge of the garden. Campbell McIvor, Craig Seaton, Alex Gordon and Jack Haddow have already started to make beds for the vegetables. Jewson provided us with the wood we needed and we have been building the beds by hammering and sawing. We have dug the soil from the ground, removed the weeds and we have added compost to the soil to make it moist and improve the quality.
Harbro provided us with some of the tools such as a folk and a spade, as well as 2 pairs of wellies – these have been really useful! Some apple trees have been sent to us for free from Bernwode Plants, in Buckinghamshire, and another company called “Trees for Life” in Worcestershire. These have been added to our small plot. The hedges were planted by the pupils of the support for learning along the edge of the garden to give it shelter and to help wildlife.
We have planned what we are going to plant this season – we have all chosen what we want to plant on our own plots. We have ordered the seeds we need for the season and we have already started planting.
The gardening has been hard work for all of us, but great fun and we are looking forward to seeing the fruits of our hard work later this year!
Campbell McIvor 6M
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