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Muirtown and Tarradale now have their very own polytunnels!

 Tarradale Primary School's tunnel

Muirtown Primary School - before 

During

 After

Thanks to Highland Polytunnels and the guys that did a fantastic job putting the tunnels up - both were out up in one day! Staff and pupils at Tarradale and Muirtown are very excited about the opportunities these covered spaces will provide. There will be a lot going on next term. Watch this space ... 

Another tunnel is going to St Clements School in Dingwall in the new term.

Crumble, compost and cornflowers - a busy afternoon at Tarradale Primary

The pictures say it all - in just over an hour this afternoon the P6 class cooked a rhubarb crumble using rhubarb from their garden, installed a new Ridan food composter and sowed 5 trays of assorted wild flowers. Amazing what they can achieve on a wet Friday. We'll keep you posted on how the Ridan and cornflowers do.

Young people's views on climate change - take a look

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There are lots of young people - in and out of school - doing great things to learn more about and tackle climate change. Have a look at this video from Young Scot - and add your thoughts to the debate, either here or with Young Scot. RoWAN is looking at being able to award YOUNG SCOT REWARDS for actions that reduce your carbon footprint through your involvement in "R U Up 4 It?". Look forward to hearing your ideas for activities we can help you with.

Tarradale Pupils find their polytunnel in the OLD school!

Tarradale Primary School pupils find where their new polytunnel has been hiding! But not for much longer - they hope to get it put up and ready for action by the end of April. If you can help in anyway to make the most of this fabulous new growing space please get in touch with RoWAN or Tarradale Primary School. RoWAN is providing polytunnels to Muirtown and Dochgarroch Primary Schools as well and we hope that lots of members of their local communities will benefit from them. If you have a polytunnel at your school we'd love to hear what has worked well for you - as well as the things to avoid!

Launch of the "Growing Hub Growing Award"

These colourful Swiss Chard seedlings were spotted today on the windowsill of Tomnacross Nursery - just one of the varieties of seeds they received as part of the RoWAN FREE SEED offer.

RoWAN, Dingwall Academy and RHET (Royal Highland Education Trust) are pleased at announce the launch of the "Growing Hub - Growing Award" which aims to:

• Provide an informal, progressive approach for pupils to gain skills and knowledge through growing fruit, vegetables and flowers
• Assist school staff to gain confidence in supporting pupils to grow more
• Recognise pupils' horticultural achievements with an Award that is both easy to deliver and assess

Sowing and caring for seeds are examples of tasks that can count towards the newly launched "Growing Award".

If you would like more information on this Award, which is being piloted over the next 12 months please contact RoWAN at any time. We are more than happy to visit you and your pupils to help get you growing! We'd love to hear from you if you intend to do the "Growing Award" so we can provide you with support via email.  

Feel free to send us photos of your growing projects and tops tips for how to grow over the school holidays!

Ferintosh and Mulbuie both up for the Climate Week Challenge

Last week was Climate Week and both Mulbuie and Ferintosh Primaries agreed to take on the 1 hour challenge set by the Climate Week team - which was to come up with a great idea to help people use less energy to heat buildings and water. The teams of about 4-6 children each decided on the buildings their idea was to benefit. These varied from an airport to a kitchen to a football pitch to the Empire State Building (no less) - so ambitious from the start.

After 40 minutes of preparation each team had up to 5 minutes to present their idea to the other groups who then voted for the best combination of idea and presentation!

             The winners at Mulbuie were ... "The Supersavers"!!!

At Ferintosh we watched a football match where the lights went off (sound familiar?), heard how The Empire State Building might use the power of a lightening strike and how water power might replace coal power in the kitchen and the winning team were "The Bumbly Bears" with their Empire State Building idea. 

Thanks for taking part in Climate Week.