Absolutely loving all of the reused Christmas door designs from previous years, huge thank you to the Art department for sharing some Christmas cheer and promoting sustainability 🎄🎨♻️ @holyrood-art.bsky.social

Thank you to Ellisa and Liza who launched our Festive Campaign on the school tannoy, and the 30+ young people who volunteered during their free time to distribute posters and information today. Any donations should be sent to Social Subjects 2 ✨🎄♻️

I loved these sustainable Christmas wreaths made by our EAL learners at Urban Roots this morning. 🎄

Well done to S1 who litter picked this morning in the winter sunshine. We visited Dixon Rd, Aikenhead Rd and Boyd St - brilliant effort by all involved! ♻️

We have some fabulous books still left from our Holyrood #BookWeekScotland staff Book Swap. Helpers can deliver to your classroom if anyone missed out 😄📚

Thank you to our Sustainability Leaders for a productive Eco Committee meeting this afternoon. Updates to follow on our plastic waste and festive campaigns ♻️🤩

Nothing gets you talking English like the great outdoors!! Blue skies, teamwork, halal marshmallows and hide n seek amongst the trees at Urban Roots. Best school day I've had in a long time! 🌳🍂🔥 #outdoorlearning #EAL

We were privileged to attend the Mass for COP30 today, a lovely service with a powerful message on climate action. Thank you to our Sustainability Leaders Zara and Melissa who represented @holyroodsecondary.bsky.social ♻️

Having lots of fun, Hallowe’en decorating. Great Helpers in action😀 We re-use the same decorations every year to be sustainable♻️ Growing very fond of mr. Pumpkin 🎃

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Well done to our cost of the school day representatives who spoke on the school tannoy about challenge poverty week.

Fantastic day yesterday at the City Chambers, with the first meeting of the Gender Strategy group for what will be a 6 year council project. Well done Ava, Joy, Milisa and Sophie. We are excited to see what you do as a team over the next six years 😀

Love Gardening Club ❤️ Huge thanks to Evvy from Urban Roots for some brilliant advice - and seeds 🌱. Great work by the team as always 👏

"Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience." –Ralph Waldo Emerson We need patience in our school garden at the mo-weeding to be done, 🌱but our trustygardeners arrived with bundles of enthusiasm and new stories to tell. We were joined by Evie from Urban Roots sharing knowledge on seed saving.

Fun afternoon planting lettuce with some new S1 gardeners, full of enthusiasm. Shared stories of planting olive trees in Syria, harvesting, washing and drying out the olives in the sun ready to cure, and about planting potatoes last spring in Glasgow and having them with dinner last weekend!

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Today brought rain so a good day for our gardens to spend some time sampling some local seasonal fruits and some vegetables that can be grown on your windowsill this time of year. Pak Choi and salads today!

First Eco Committee meeting of 2025-26 school year. Great to see lots of familiar faces, and some new ones too! ♻️

An afternoon of seeds, weeds and good deeds at Gardening Club today 🌱🌿

Harvesting sunflower seeds. It’ll be a mighty crop next season! 🌻🌻In amongst those pesky weeds we’ve spied a little cheeky beetroot. I wonder what else is hiding in there? 🙀Join us next week.Gardening gloves provided and learn how to make bramble and apple jam from brambles you can find locally !

A reminder that S1 can collect their bottles in Social Subjects 2. If anyone has not received theirs, please pop in ♻️

Thank you to our wonderful senior Sustainability Leaders who presented at S1 assembly today about Eco Schools and our reusable Holyrood bottles. Everyone is welcome to join our Eco Committee and we hope to see some new faces ♻️🤩

Reusable bottle distribution for our new S1 is underway, bottles can also be collected in Social Subjects 2. Starting the new term sustainably by reducing waste and promoting health and wellbeing ♻️ #LfSHolyrood

Summer is over! We are looking forward to getting the school year off to a great start tomorrow. See you all at 8.45am! #aspirebelievecommunicate

Finishing the term with some #ClimateAction #SDG13 by raising awareness ♻️ many opted for digital pieces too!

Our Sustainability Leaders started working on updating our Eco Code today. We also tidied our plot in the patio and planted some new flowers, then prepared some other plots ready for planting. Brilliant work 🌱🌻

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Well done to our Sustainability Leaders today ♻️🌍