Old Rayne | Aberdeenshire Achievements

Old Rayne School were delighted to find out that they have retined their Fair Trade Status by organised the events below;

Ran Fairtrade stalls at our school Harvest, St Andrew’s Day, Burns Day, Fair-trade Fortnight and Easter Community cafés. We also serve Fairtrade tea, coffee and sugar at these cafés.

Ran two school stalls at the Old Rayne Christmas Fair in the Lawrence Hall, one for Christmas Traidcraft products and the other sold Fairtrade Chocolate Brownie mix in jars and Fairtrade cookies and truffles that we made. They were very popular!

Celebrated Fairtrade Fortnight 2013

Created Fairtrade art work – necklaces and banners

African Drumming workshop with Chief Chebe

A lady who represented Traidcraft visited each class

A man from a company called Koolskools gave us an assembly about Fairtrade cotton

We baked all helped make a Fairtrade cake and put it in a competition called The Fair Bake.

We recycled our Fairtrade wrappers to make a sculpture. We uploaded a photo of the sculpture to the Fairtrade Foundation website and we won 3^rd prize.

We had a healthy Fairtrade tuck shop everyday in the hall for all the pupils and staff in the school

This evidence from the session was collated and submitted to the Fairtrade Foundation and last week the school heard news from the Foundation that Old Rayne School have retained its Fairtrade School status.

Mrs Fiona Eaton
Head Teacher

Well done to all involved 🙂

On Friday 2nd November Old Rayne School held a science, technologies, engineering and maths business breakfast.

Both classes P1-3 and P4-7 are currently studying STEM projects and we set up the breakfast as a whole school enterprise, the upper stages class even worked with senior pupils from Meldrum Academy to help plan and set up learning stations for the event (the senior pupils then attended the breakfast with the depute from the academy.) We ran the business breakfast as an open morning with 15 expert stations set up around the school. Pupils, parents and staff circulated around the areas as the experts shared their specific expertise with us. It was also an opportunity for the pupils to display their work and show it to their parents and the invited experts. We had representation from to name just a few…

Aberdeen Uni RGU SSE – Peterhead Power Station Aberdeen Branch of the Civil Engineers

Chevron Sub Sea 7 OPITO

… and many many Dad’s of pupils who left their companies for the morning to attend as an engineering expert.

It was a super event and the pupils got so much out of it from start to finish. We have invited a few experts back in to school to share more with us about their jobs as the pupils found them very interesting and want to find out more. We perhaps inspired a few more engineers of the future!

The Inverurie Herald and Inverurie Advertiser attended to take photos and do a wee write up that was in last week’s papers.

Fiona Eaton

Head Teacher

Well done to all involved 🙂