Tree Planting

Pupils from Primary 6 helped Mrs McPherson to plant over 100 trees in the school grounds. The young saplings were obtained from the Woodland Trust, with the aim to make Houston a greener place for the future.

P3B - Litter Picking

 Whilst the weather has not been great this week, we took an opportunity where it was a bit brighter to get out and get our playground cleaned up.

Some nice new litter pickers have only excited P3B more!

P3A - Litter Pick 13-17th Nov

 P3a have had the responsibility of litter picking throughout the week to help tidy up the playground. Even in between the rainy showers, everyone worked so hard to clean up any rubbish left behind after break and lunch.

We even discussed how important the playground is to us and have promised to help keep the playground tidy at all times!

Look at what the children in our ELCC have been learning about

 

2nd November

 The Gardening Club members took all the seeds out of the dried sunflowers, cleaned them up and packed them in envelopes with special labels to sell at the Christmas Fayre and elsewhere. These will raise funds for next year's club. We packed over 230 envelopes with at least 12 seeds in each!

26th October

The Gardening Club members had  a plant search and found out lots of interesting things about trees and shrubs in their local environment.

5th October

Today the Gardening Club members started to make rowan and apple jelly. They put all the rowans, stalks and all, along with chopped up apples into water and boiled till the fruit went pulpy.

Then they strained it through a ‘jeelie’ bag overnight. They had to build  a wee castle of books to get the stick high enough so the bag didn't dip into the strained juice. The next morning they added sugar and boiled it till it set. Then they poured it into jars with their own design of label.
The grown ups took the sunflower heads and tied them up to dry in the polytunnel and picked lots of tomatoes which they took home.
The potatoes are still drying off in the polytunnel ready for making soup in January.

13th September

The Gardening Club members picked lots of beans, tidied up some of the raised beds, brought the strawberry runners which had rooted into the polytunnel and picked more raspberries. They got to take  beans, tomatoes, cucumbers and cabbage home to share and enjoy.

Primary 4/5 and 5A-Litter Pick