Yesterday 3 pupils from Ferryhill Primary School took part in a diving display at Aberdeen Sports Village to welcome the Commonwealth Games Baton to Aberdeen.  They were part of a 15 minute display, which included members of the Aberdeen Diving Club, showing the skills they have learnt over the past 4 months with their TID squad.

Your child has enjoyed playing bowls at Albury for the last few weeks.  If is anyone interested in carrying on I, along with 2 others, will be available for tuition on a Tuesday morning 10 – 12 for the duration of the holidays.

As Albury will be undergoing remedial work, we will be at Polmuir Bowling Club, Polmuir Road, AB11 7RS. (on way to Duthie Park)

All welcome.

Agnes MacDonald

Tel 571716/07769824059

UNCRC – Article 36 – Children should be protected from any activity that takes advantage of them or could harm their welfare and development.

On Friday 23rd June the whole school took part in a sponsored run in aid of the NSPCC.  Sports Captains organised this event sending information letters home to all parents, setting the route and collecting the sponsorship money.  Primary 1 to 3 ran for 15 minutes around a route set on the grass while P4 to P7 were set the challenge of doing 4 circuits of the park.  Parents also got the chance to take part in the run.  A big thank you yet again to the parents who supported us by marshaling and encouraging the children.  Watch this space to see how much we raised!

UNCRC -Article 22 (Refugee children): Children have the right to special protection and help if they are refugees (if they have been forced to leave their home and live in another country), as well as all the rights in this Convention.

P5/6G planned and organised ‘Build a Den Day’ in aid of Save the Children.  This year the focus was on how we could help child refugees.  All pupils were asked to come to school dressed in red.  On the build up to the day itself pupils in all classes put both their technology and creativity skills to the test by designing their own dens. Winning teams from each class were then supported to create their Den in the gym.  The results were fantastic! £210 was raised from this day of fun!

UNCRC – Article 30 – Every child has the right to learn and use the language, customs and religion of their family, regardless of whether they are shared by the majority of people in the country they live.

Ferryhill Primary School celebrated an extremely successful international festival, held on Sunday 21st May on the back of the school’s international week. A celebration of food, customs, games, and activities from across the world, the festival attracted a 300+ crowd. Visitors were treated to a tantalising spread of food, stories by Scottish story teller Pauline Cordiner and performances by bagpipe player and ex-pupil Ross Thomson, the school’s own highland dancing group as well as Chinese children’s dancing group Red Phoenix Dance.

Taster dishes ranged from traditional Scottish fayre such as haggis bon bons to Indian, Nigerian, Russian, Polish, Chinese, and many other international flavours. With the majority of food prepared by school parents, festival organisers also received generous contributions from local restaurants and shops such as Wok Wok, Inn at the Park, the Ferryhill House Hotel, Tesco’s, Sainsbury’, Beefy’s Biltong and Aperitivo.

Whilst much of the focus was on food, children were also well catered for with activities including mandala colouring, creating matryoshka dolls, face painting, tattoos, nail painting, and the popular Viking chess game Kubb.

A huge thank you to Angela Wigham and Laura Gerrard for organising this in such a tight timescale.

UNCRC – Article 24 – Every child has the right to the best possible health…

We are delighted that some of our talented pupils are part of the Active Schools fun run series.