Congratulations to this year's Scarecrow Festival winners! It has been a great Scarecrow Festival with over 848 people voting for their favourite scarecrows. It was a very close finish in the Comical Category with Central Primary School Nursery receiving 374 votes with 1st Tain Guides right behind them with 371 votes!
In the Traditional Category, Inshes Primary School After School Club was in the lead, but Millburn Academy pulled ahead in the last day of voting, finishing with 10 votes more than Inshes. The Eco Crow Category winner was Dalneigh Primary Schoool with 111 votes. The overall winner, with 374 votes is Central Primary School Nursery.
The time has come for you to vote for your favourite scarecrow for each category. So have a good look at the Scarecrow Photo Gallery and then vote for your choices by selecting it from the polls below. Remember to tell your friends and families to visit our website and vote too! Good luck to all of the Scarecrows! Click here to visit the Scarecrow Photo Gallery. It will open in a new window. Voting runs from 26th June to 14th July. Winners and prizes will be announced on 16th July.
RoWAN's Scarecrow Festival has begun! Thank you to all of the people who have taken part and made a scarecrow. There are a lot of great scarecrows so please click here to see them.
Voting for the scarecrows will take place on our website from the 26th June to 14th July. Have a look and remember to come back and vote for your favourites. There will be a winner for each category (comical, eco-crow and traditional) and an overall winner too! Tell all of your friends and family to vote too. The winners will be announced on the 16th of July. Good luck to all of our entrants! Read more
RoWAN are hosting a talk entitled “Archaeology is Rubbish” by local archaeologist Susan Kruse. Susan will be giving us food for thought with a talk entitled "Archaeology is Rubbish". She will explore the way people have treated rubbish through the ages, from the earliest Mesolithic times through to today. From this perspective she will suggest that there may be valuable lessons from the past, as well as sobering reflections on what archaeologists of the future may think about us today. Read more
Calling all Scarecrows! RoWAN is holding a Scarecrow Festival. Scarecrows will be popping up all over the Inverness area as part of a new festival. The RoWAN Scarecrow Festival is a fun way to get people thinking about food and packaging waste. Scarecrow makers and voters will pledge to cut down on the food waste they create at home, work or school. It is open to businesses, households, schools and community groups. Entry is FREE and the Entry Deadline is now the 15th June.
Join us for RoWAN's first ever Easter Eggstravaganza!!
There will be loads of fun with compostable crafts, eggcentric egg decorating, an easter egg hunt colouring contest, fancy dress box and face painting too.
Hop on by!
Click here to download the easter egg hunt colouring contest. Print it off, colour it in and bring it with you to the party.
Carol and Kate have been busy in Inverness working with Merkinch PS, Central PS, Crown PS and Inverness High School. Each school is showing a keen interest in trying to reduce the amount of waste they produce. Read more
Lunchtimes at Tain Royal Academy are full of drama – and the drama is full of rubbish. Pupils in the lunchtime drama group, run by teacher and writer Peter Whitely, are tackling the subjects of waste and consumption in a play titled “Pieces of String too Short to be Useful”.
The aim of the piece is to get secondary school audiences thinking about the connections between the things they consume, the waste they produce and the effect this has on landfill and on climate change.
In a series of short sketches, pupils look at typical consumer items – a mobile phone, a Tshirt, hair products – and examine why we always want more, better, newer replacements.
Peter Whitely explained “How many of our choices are truly individual, and how much are we all influenced by fashion and advertising? Under the guise of “decluttering” we can end up throwing out items which are perfectly all right, filling up landfill sites and adding to our carbon footprint in the process.” Read more
How much waste does our school produce? What’s in all those bins anyway? These are the questions that pupils of Invergordon’s Park Primary School set out to answer, with the aim of reducing the schools’ rubbish. Reducing, Reusing and Recycling, the 3Rs of waste, saves money and resources and helps tackle climate change, which affects us all.
With the help of Ross-shire Waste Action Network (RoWAN), school Eco Committee members gathered in 24 hours’ worth of school waste, sorted and weighed it. All pupils separated their lunch waste into cooked and uncooked food, packaging and drinks containers from school meals and packed lunches. All the bins were gathered in, as was the paper for recycling and the compostable waste which the school already collects. Read more
Congratulations to this year's Scarecrow Festival winners! It has been a great Scarecrow Festival with over 848 people voting for their favourite scarecrows. It was a very close finish in the Comical Category with Central Primary School Nursery receiving 374 votes with 1st Tain Guides right behind them with 371 votes! 
The time has come for you to vote for your favourite scarecrow for each category. So have a good look at the 
RoWAN's Scarecrow Festival has begun! Thank you to all of the people who have taken part and made a scarecrow. There are a lot of great scarecrows so please click
Calling all Scarecrows! RoWAN is holding a Scarecrow Festival. Scarecrows will be
Join us for RoWAN's first ever Easter Eggstravaganza!!
Carol and Kate have been busy in Inverness working with Merkinch PS, Central PS, Crown PS and Inverness High School. Each school is showing a keen interest in trying to reduce the amount of waste they produce.
