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Rights Respecting Schools

 

Rights Respecting Schools

On Thursday 26th and Friday 27th September a team of girls (Emily, Gudran, Georgia, Natasha, Claire and Emma, S3) from the Right Respecting Schools club did their Aberdeenshire Your Turn Course with Common Purpose.  The 2 days consisted of meeting and working with new people from different schools, learning what a good leader is, team building, effective questions, presentations from Ryan Manson, Genera Manager of Union Square, Chris Dunridge, Chief Executive, The Peoples Practice and HR consultant about being passionate about leadership and effective questioning, and helped specialists with their current work challenges.  We then had to present this information in front of the different schools; we even did a bit of acting!  All in all everyone had 2 great days out, and had a lot of new and improved skills to take away with them.  Having fun and learning more about out town, city and how our community works, understanding how business works and how decisions are made and truly learnt how to go out there and make a difference!  All these skills will help and reward us in our daily life and to follow our career paths for the future.         

Emily Gray, S3

Bringing Uganda back to Newmachar

Miss Fiona McDonald spent 5 weeks of her summer holidays in Uganda.           

This was part of the Link Community Development Global Teachers Programme.

One of the first things Fiona wanted to do this term was to share her experiences with her school. This was done at a whole school assembly, which gave the pupils at New Machar School a chance to learn about their international peers and what life is like beyond their Scottish roots.

Global Citizenship will be a major focus for New Machar and will fit in with their

Rights Respecting School plan, which hi-lights the Unicef rights of the child.

Uganda School Assembly