Our latest story from the Advertiser's archives goes back 10 years to the day when pupils at Rhu Primary won a major prize for their environmental work.

Here's how we reported on their John Muir Award win in the Advertiser on May 28, 2009...

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STAFF and pupils at a Burgh school are buzzing after they landed a coveted environmental award.

Primary seven pupils at Rhu Primary embarked on a series of projects promoting the role of bees in the environment to clinch the prestigious John Muir Award.

Pupils embarked on a project to discover wild places within the school grounds and the local churchyard, before deciding to find out more about the bees lurking there.

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The youngsters then completed a project, finding out more about bees - which included a talk from a local beekeeper - before helping boost the environment for the creatures by compiling a leaflet about them.

They then dropped the pamphlets, together with a selection of seeds for bee-friendly blooms, to homes close to their School Road base.

To complete work for the initiative, the pupils delivered a talk on what they had learned and their bid to boost the environment and promote the role of bees and biodiversity, to other pupils during a special assembly which took place during last week.

The event tied in with Scottish Biodiversity Week, from May 16 to 24, which is aimed at boosting awareness of the environment.

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Toby Clark, Regional Manager for the John Muir Awards, welcomed the efforts of the Rhu pupils.

He told the Advertiser: “The pupils focused their curriculum projects on wild places and bees in particular.

"At the heart of the John Muir Awards are four challenges, which are to spend time in a wild place, discover it, explore it and find more and then increase awareness and understanding of such places.

"They covered all these areas, with their seed and leaflet drop promoting the role of bees and by delivering an in-depth talk in their assembly.”