On Tuesday 24th June the Pupil Council organised a sponsored run in aid of the MND charity My Name’5 Doddie. They were inspired to do this by the Balmoral Team who recently completed a sponsored bike ride for the charity. Everyone really enjoyed running and walking laps of the park and getting a stamp on their card each time they passed Mrs Maclean. Some people managed over 30 laps!  A total of 486 laps were completed. On Friday we will count up the sponsor money and send it on to the charity. Thank you to everyone who took part or sent in a donation.

Over the last few weeks the Pupil Council have been busy carrying out their important role. They have written letters, created self evaluation surveys for parents and planned whole school events, due to take place this term.Thank you to everyone who has completed their survey. They will share the results here soon.

In April, they attended a consultation event in the village hall, sharing the views of children at Braemar School with the wider community.

They would also like to invite you to join them on their sponsored walk at the playpark, in aid of the ‘My Name’5 Doddie Foundation’, raising money to support research into MND. The walk takes place on Tuesday 24th June at 1.45pm in Braemar Playpark. Sponsor forms will come home next week.

Tuesday  6th May 2025 

Right of the Week :

Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be encouraged to go to school to the highest level you can. 

Article 29:  Your education should help you develop your talents and abilities. It should also help you learn to live peacefully, protect the environment and respect other people. 

Pupils in the Rights Respecters made mind-maps of their dream jobs, the skills they will need to do that job, and things they do at school which help them to develop that skill. Some of these were shared at assembly like Cara, who said that the Creative Area in Rm 2 helps her to develop her creativity which she will need to become a florist! Lily said that helping children in the playground is developing her skills in looking after people which will help when she works in her dream job – babysitting! 

Article 31 Every child has the right to rest, relax, play and to take part in cultural and creative activities.

The Rights Respecting committee have been discussing how to make play better in the playground. They surveyed pupils to find out what their favourite games were. The Respecters will take turns to be Playground Games Leaders. Their role will be to help Miss Ella take equipment out of the shed, organise games, and help to make sure everyone knows game rules. The group are excited to build their social intelligence meta-skills.

We had great fun on Wednesday afternoon, celebrating the wide variety of talent we have at Braemar School. We had musicians, dancers and magicians to entertain us and the audience were fantastic listeners. Nursery children came along to enjoy the show too!

Here are a few highlights from the show:

Piper singing

Charlotte explaining about her dog training

Kayleigh and Zeera on ukulele

Andrew’s music

Jamie on chanter

Lily, Edith and Scarlett dancing

Oscar and Lucas magic act

Angus on glockenspiel

Alex on chanter

Charlotte dancing

Well done to the Pupil Council for organising the event and presenting on the day.

Lots of new posters popping up around school to remind everyone to bring a healthy snack on Fridays.

Following our last post, we are pleased to announce that we have received the Bronze Rights Respecting Schools Award! 🥉 This means that we have been learning about the rights children have and how we use our rights in school. The next step is to work from our Silver action plan.

Today, Wednesday 26th February, we held an assembly for the whole school where we spoke about the ABCDE of rights, our school charter and all of the other work we have been putting in to make sure the pupils of Braemar School have their rights respected. 🤝

The Healthy Heroes Committee have been investigating the kinds of snacks that children in both classes bring to school each day. This came from children’s own comments on their wellbeing webs that they felt they needed to eat more fruit and vegetables. They found that lots of children bring crisps or sweets every day for their morning snack.

They have decided to reintroduce ‘Fruity Friday’ starting this week, so children are encouraged to bring fruit or a healthy snack each Friday. The aim is to support children to make healthy choices. We will let you know how it goes.🥝🍍🥭🍎🍌🍊🍉🍏🍐

This week we were busy planning for World Book Day, Thursday 6th March. The children have decided to organise a ‘What’s your favourite book?‘ survey, paired reading across the school, opportunities to make a mini book and bookmark and a ‘Design a new cover for your fave book‘ competition. Book tokens will be sent home later this week.

We also started preparing for our end of term Talent Show. We can’t wait to see what people sign up to do!

***Update***

Here is the result of the favourite book survey, along with a display of the books people voted for. Thanks to everyone who took part and to the Pupil Council for organising the day.

This week the Pupil Council had an email from the Balmoral Team who are raising money for an MND charity. They are happy to support a sponsored event at Braemar School, organised by the pupils. So far the group have come up with a sponsored run/walk at the playpark. Watch this space for more information soon.

We also started work on a community project, gathering ideas for the Clunie Meadow project. (BCL) Hopefully our ideas will be shared at the planned community engagement meeting .

We also collated the information from the whole school playground audit we carried out on Valentines day. Pupil Council sorted and organised all of the ideas and suggestions for improvements to our outdoor spaces. We are going to start work on this later this term.

Finally, they carried out a survey of pupils, to help decide on a fun event they’d like to organise – either a Talent Show or a Teddy Show. The majority opted for a Talent Show, but we decided that we can include teddies at the fun day in the playpark next term.