Category: A Rights Respecting School
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Children in need
The Bladnoch committee had organised a Children In Need morning for the school. They let us make cookies with 25 on it as a decoration because it’s 2025 then we did 25 different reps for 20 mins (listening to Mr Thomson’s awesome playlist!) and also we coloured in Pudsey with the theme 25! Macey found…
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Children in Need 2025
Today we celebrated Children in Need. The Bladnoch Bandit committee shared an informative presentation at assembly this week and prepared some fun activities for us to take part in. They linked this important charity with two key articles from UNCRC – 19 (the right to be protected from harm) and 24 (the right to good…
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UNCRC in P.1-4
This week we have been learning more about what UNCRC stands for, what it does and why it is important. To help us understand we used the ABCDE approach (the rights are for ALL children up to the age of 18), they begin at BIRTH, they CAN’T be taken away, they DON’T have to be…
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Fairtrade by the Barhoise Brains
The Barhoise committee have been learning about Fairtrade. We have been looking a the making of shea butter and presenting our PowerPoint to the whole school at assembly. It’s about people in Africa going out and working long, hard hours every a day and looking for shea berries and nuts to make shea butter. When…
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Healthy plates in P1-4
As part of our exploration of UNCRC Article 24 (I have the right to be as healthy as possible), we have learning about the importance of a balanced diet. To meet our goals, we have been organising loads of different foods into their food groups and talking about the benefits of each group. We all…
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The water cycle
P.5-7 have been learning about the water cycle and how the water evaporates into the air and then condenses in the sky and then when it falls it’s called precipitation so the three steps are 1.evaporation 2.condensation 3.precipitation. We also have been doing experiments on friction and we got a Lego car and pushed it…
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Apple Pressing at Kirkcowan
Very recently the whole Kirkcowan primary school were making apple juice. First we had to cut the apples into smaller bits then we put them in a bucket. After that we dumped the bucket in a grinder so the apples were much smaller. We put them in a compressor to squeeze the apple bits into…
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Good work assembly led by P1-4
All the pupils in P1-4 gave a little glimpse to the whole on Thursday about what they have been learning recently. We were treated to some super quick answers to number bonds to 4 from Aurla, Fergus, Boyd and Noah, and number bonds to 100 from Mirren and Leo. Archie and Logan shared with us…
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Road Safety in P1-4
As part of out SHANARRI and UNCRC work, P1-4 have been learning about all things safe. We have discussed who keeps us safe and how they keep us safe, and we have focused on how to be ‘Safety Kittens’ in regard to road safety. We want to make sure everyone knows how to stay safe…
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P5-7 Language Explorer Project
For the last few Fridays we have been researching a language of our own choosing. Languages we have been researching have been Maori, Korean, Spanish, Italian and Chinese. We looked up language facts, useful phrases, links to English and learned about some culture. Today we had to study all the booklets we made as we…
