Greenfaulds High School
Cumbernauld, United Kingdom

Our team is from Greenfaulds High School in Cumbernauld. Cumbernauld is a new town near Glasgow. In Gaelic, its name means ‘The meeting of the waters’.

Greenfaulds High School is a modern school and has approximately 900 pupils. There is a wide range of extra-curricular activities, such as; the science club, cross country club, modern studies club and many more.

Cumbernauld is a fairly new town and has a high percentage of young people. There is a town centre and sports centre in Cumbernauld. Although Cumbernauld is a town it has areas of natural beauty such as Palacerigg Country Park.

Cumbernauld has a latitude of 55 degrees 57’ North and longitude of 3 degrees 59’ West. We will be checking for organisms from the “Luggie” which is the river that runs through our town.

Some parts of the river are not well looked after and so it will be interesting to find out the quality of the water. We expect that the organisms found here in Scotland may be quite different from those found in other parts of the world and it will be interesting to compare our results with those from other teams.