The school has been awarded its first prestigious Green Flag Award for its eco work – the first additional support needs school in the Kingdom to achieve the status.

And not only did the eco-committee and other pupils manage to meet the criteria required, they also went the extra mile and got the whole community involved.

The process of working towards a Green Flag is an involved one intended to promote environmental awareness and action, and for Rosslyn, it was no different.

Many green-related areas were looked at including recycling different items like paper, tin cans and plastics, litter and energy saving.

An assessor from the Keep Scotland Beautiful, who visited Rosslyn in the run-up to making the award, noticed it was the way in which pupils were actively included in ways best suited to their individual needs which was one of the areas worthy of note.

Teacher, Monica Holland, explained: "When we looked at the issue of litter we had to look at the area around the school because we didn't have any litter in the playground.

''Instead we looked at the issue of dog fouling around the school.
"Recycling was really successful and we will continue to recycle paper, plastics and tins in the school. We also looked at energy saving and used symbols on light switches, computers and taps."

When it came to recycling, pupils managed to get their neighbours involved and raise dawareness by carrying out door-to-door collections of bags of tins and plastic bottles, depositing them in the recycling bins in the school grounds and marking the amount collected on a special chart.

And the use of special symbols in the school meant that every pupil felt involved in the process when completing questionnaires.

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