We’ve been learning about Buddhism with Mrs Petrie.  Yesterday we designed our own Buddhist temples in co-operative groups.  We had to work together and use our imaginations and knowledge to come up with a variety of designs.  Our temple had had to include information on the 8 fold path, Buddha’s eyes and prayer flags.  We’ve learned that there are hundreds of small golden buddha’s in every temple and we also learned about the story of the Buddha.  We continue to learn about the Rights of the Child.  Every child has the right to choose your own religion and beliefs.  Your parents should help you decide what is right and wrong, and what is best for you. – Article 14. 

The assessors from Keep Scotland Beautiful are coming to our school on Tuesday (25th Feb) morning. We have been working really hard and we hope they will be impressed with our efforts and our plans for the future! Watch this space!!

Every year, UNICEF UK’s Day for Change focuses on a different theme. In 2014, Day for Change is all about education. Going to school gives children the chance of a brighter future. But about 68 million children around the world still don’t have access to education.

On Friday 7^th February, Clackmannan Primary school helped to support UNICEF UK’s Day for Change. In return for a donation of £1 to help UNICEF’s vital work, we had a ‘Dress down Day’. It was a great opportunity for our pupils to learn about and raise money for children in other parts of the world.

We would like to thank all those who contributed and are pleased to announce we managed to raise a total of £174 for this worthwhile cause.

Today we met up with Mr McLaren to speak to him about purchasing equipment for our playground.  Mrs Wieczorek was unable to meet with us so we’ve written a letter to keep her informed of our plans.  We have asked for some money to purchase some equipment for the school playground.  We think that if there was more equipment to play with then the children would have more to do and learn to play more co-operative games.  It would also reduce the number of pupils running around which would also keep our playground safer.  We had completed an audit of our playground equipment prior to the meeting and Mr McLaren agreed that we definitely needed some new items.  We are going to meet up with the support staff after the February break to look through some catalogues.

Hailie and Emma