Braes High Eco Club
@braeseco.bsky.social
We are a Green-Flag Eco-School with special commendation for our ongoing work on climate action and learning for sustainability! #Article24 #Article12
Young people in S1 RMPS explored stewardship, biodiversity and storytelling all while improving the green spaces around Braes using @naturescot.bsky.social new Discovery app! #BraesLFS #Article12 @braeshighschool.bsky.social www.falkirkherald.co.uk/education/fa...
Falkirk school features in promotional film for educational nature software
Teachers and pupils at a Falkirk high school have been featured in a promotional video for a new educational software.
falkirkherald.co.uk
Young people were participating in this afternoon’s litter pick in our local community. Great effort from everyone. #Article29
Great to have fellow pupils from Falkirk secondaries, Council colleagues and Elected Members in Braes for our Climate Discussion - engaging and informative discussion! #RRSA #Article29
Some beautiful homes for bees created today with an Eco focus! @braeshighschool.bsky.social @braeseco.bsky.social @educationscotland.bsky.social
Fantastic news to have won Climate Action School of the Year at this year’s Eco-Schools Scotland Awards from @keepscotbeautiful.bsky.social 🎉 www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org/news/2025/ma...
Eco-Schools Scotland 2025 Awards winners announced | Keep Scotland Beautiful
The four winners of this year's Eco-Schools awards have been announced.
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This summer, we're asking nature lovers & mountaineers exploring the unique landscapes of the Cairngorms National Park to keep an eye out for the Blaeberry bumblebee & report their sightings via iRecord 📲 ➡️ www.bumblebeeconservation.org/bumblebee-ba... #Mountaineering @cairngormsnews.bsky.social
S3 biologists have been making these wonderful pyramids of energy as part of their life on Earth topic 😍 #BraesCreativity #rrsa #article29 @braeshighschool.bsky.social
This week I visited @braeseco.bsky.social lunch club to talk about climate fiction #clifi in general and this book in particular!
🌼 Our Digital Leaders have upgraded old computers to extend their life! 💻 @braeseco.bsky.social
🔧 Our department repurposes old wood and metal for new DET projects instead of buying new! 🎪 @braeseco.bsky.social
🌿 Computing learners have written programs to control devices that monitor energy use! 🔋🌍 @braeseco.bsky.social
🥤 We have reduced our single use plastics in staff bases and at training events! Bring your own bottle. 🚰 @braeseco.bsky.social
🌐 We have made a faculty wide switch to cloud solutions, like Google Classroom, and have saved paper and energy across all our departments! ☁️📉 @braeseco.bsky.social
♻️ DET is recycling nearly all of our waste workshop materials! 🌳 Reducing waste, one project at a time. @braeseco.bsky.social
🚪 Keeping doors closed = conserving heat! We use our air con wisely. Faculty wide reminders have reduced our heating energy use. 🔥🔋 @braeseco.bsky.social
🌿 Computing learners have calculated their personal carbon footprints! 🚶♂️📲 A big step toward smaller footprints. @braeseco.bsky.social @braescomputing.bsky.social
🔧 Our DET learners have built solar-powered prototypes in their project designs! ☀️ Innovation fuelling a greener future. @braeseco.bsky.social
🖥️ Paperless classrooms? ✅ Our Computing department leads with digital assignments to reduce paper use! 📉 @braeseco.bsky.social @braescomputing.bsky.social
🧵 Our Business learners have designed campaigns promoting eco-conscious buying. 🛒💚 Think green, buy smart! @braeseco.bsky.social @braeshsbusiness.bsky.social
⚙️ Our DET learners have been exploring wind turbine efficiency in class. 🎭 Empowering tomorrow's engineers today! @braeseco.bsky.social
🌏 We have switched to energy-efficient servers in our school, reducing our digital carbon footprint! 💻✨ @braeseco.bsky.social @braescomputing.bsky.social
Keep Scotland Beautiful visited us this week as part of its celebratory #EcoSchools30 tour to present a certificate of achievement recognising our commendation for Climate Action for our last Green Flag Award. We were so excited to share our hard work! @braeshighschool.bsky.social
We talked about this at #wordsforwellbeing #bookgroup today. Engaging chat about eating out in restaurants and why other customers can sometimes be so judgemental and show a lack of #empathy for others nearby.
I borrow library books all the time! Did you know that providing books for borrowing is an environmentally friendly practice, because when multiple people borrow the same book rather than buying their own individual copy, less paper and other resources are used! @braeseco.bsky.social
@tortytales.bsky.social · 2y agoMy next read, borrowed from @braeslibrary.bsky.social 🙌
New Year, New Display. Read to Empathise in 2025! Welcome to our new Empathy collection. We got these as part of our #SLIF School Library Improvement Fund application and our cluster primaries and I are looking forward to working with @empathylabuk.bsky.social 🙌.
