Learning packs for home and school

Packs

Food waste Where do the peelings go? With the story Hamish’s short menu. Save good food first, then follow the scraps to Amina’s bio plant. Ages 5 to 7 with an adult, or 8 to 11 · about 45 to 60 minutes in class · home and school packs Collection day The people behind your bins With the story The wee visitors at the window. Keep, reduce or recycle, and why streams stay separate. Coming soon · in review Materials What is it made of? Priya’s sorting puzzle with printable sorting cards. Works with Sort with Buddy online. Coming soon · in review

Teaching pictures

The simple diagrams from the stories’ visitor displays, big enough to put on a classroom screen. Each one opens with the picture’s words written out, so everyone can read them.

Energy · the castleMoving water, useful electricityWith the words written out, and questions to talk about.Paper · the millPaper fibres begin another chapterWith the words written out, and questions to talk about.Coming soon Food waste · the bio plantOne sealed tank, two useful outputsWith the words written out, and questions to talk about.Coming soon Litter · the burn and shoreKeep litter out before rain carries itWith the words written out, and questions to talk about.Coming soon

What every pack includes

• One learning aim, the level, how long it takes and what you need
• A printable activity that works in colour or black and white, plus an online version
• Answers and notes for the grown-up leading it
• The sources behind every fact
• A reminder that real bin rules depend on your council, with a link to check yours

For teachers

Each school pack lists where it can support your teaching: for example materials work in science, sustainability topics, or a school Eco-Schools waste project. We note links; we do not claim a pack covers a curriculum objective.

Coming later: setting a pack’s quiz or story as a class task.

Gullbrae is a made-up Scottish town. Its bins are not your council’s, and every pack says so. The packs here are drafts, waiting for an educator’s and a fact reviewer’s check.