Monthly Archives: January 2014

- Achievement

Holocaust Memorial Day

Holocaust Memorial Day

Today we welcomed two very special visitors to school to  help us learn more from the Holocaust Memorial Day.

We were delighted when Carol Gillespie from Education Scotland told us that  Arn Chorn Pond, a Cambodian genocide survivor, flautist and human rights activist and Dr Racelle Weiman, a Holocaust educator from USA, would be visiting the school to give first-hand accounts of what it is like to experience such atrocities and pupils then had the opportunity to ask questions to help them understand the impact of these significant historical events.

Our visitors toured the school and then were treated to a performance from Reels on Wheels and 2 wonderful songs from our senior choir. Thanks to Dylan and Gemma for their solo performances. We were then delighted to listen to Arn as he played a Cambodian lullaby for us on his flute.

This was followed by a question and answer session in class Orkney.  We were so proud of our young people as they listened to the stories from Arn and Rachelle and asked lots of relevant questions.

This afternoon classes Orkney and Shetland  participated in the GLOW TV event  as Arn discussed more about his life in Cambodia and what he had to do to survive.

Look out for mAIRwaves FM next week as we will share some of our question and answer session with you.

Have a  look at some of the photos from the event and read the lovely comments left in our visitors book from Arn and Racelle.

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Burns Assembly

Celebrating Burns Day

All classes have been learning about Robert Burns and to celebrate the end of this topic, they will showcase what they have learned during assembly tomorrow afteroon. This will take the form of art work, poetry, dance, song and a quiz.

If possible could pupils wear or bring in something tartan.

Have a look at some of our art work from last year.

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Thank You Scottish Power

Thank You

 

On Friday 17th January, we welcomed visitors from Scottish Power who came to school to present the children with a very generous donation of £700.

The staff at Scottish Power had been involved in fundraising events and decided to donate some of the money to the school.

Mr Crossan and Mrs Clark took the visitors on a tour of the school to meet the pupils and then they were introduced to our Head Boy and Girl to recieve the presentation.

We would like to say a big “Thank You” to everyone at Scottish Power and will use the money to purchase new educational equipment for the school.

Parents

Parent Learning

Join us today for another Parent session with the Speech and Language Therapists.

Parent Learning with the Speech and Language Therapists will take place on Monday 20th January  1:30 – 2:30pm.

Our topic this week is Expanding Understanding of Language.

All welcome