Weekly Information – 8th September 2023

Upcoming Dates

Monday 18th September – P1 and 7 dental checks

Monday 18th September  – P1-3 having a Youth Music Initiative Workshop

Thursday 21st September – P1-7 Flu Vaccinations

 

Assembly

One of the priorities in our School Improvement Plan this year is to further develop our relationships, behaviour and anti-bullying practice and capture it in policy. As a starting point to involving the children in this, we have started some work today in engaging with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The key learning at Assembly was:

  • The UNCRC is a list of promises made by almost all the governments in the world to give children what they need. There are 54 promises called articles.
  • Rights are what you need, not necessarily what you want.
  • No child can have their rights taken away from them but all children need to act in a way that does not stop other children losing their rights.
  • Part of our job in school is to teach children about their rights and about how to respect others’ rights. The key articles for us in school are:

3: All decisions should be made with children’s best interests and safety in mind.

24: The right to health care, nutritious food and clean water.

27: The right to an adequate standard of living.

28: The right to a primary education.

29: One of the goals of education is to teach respect for the environment and for other children an adults.

31: The right to play and relax.

I have asked all classes to discuss this a little further before next week’s assembly and to link the articles to our school values and the Wellbeing Indicators which often talk about in school (safe, healthy, achieving, nurtured, active, respected, responsible, included). You might also like to discuss these articles at home and link them to things you do in your family e.g everyone brushes their teeth before bed (even if they don’t want to!) because you have the right to health (article 24).

 

Save the Date

Madras College will be hosting a workshop on social media with input from Police Scotland for parents with children attending the cluster primary schools. This will be an opportunity to come along and engage with other parents about Social Media on the following dates:

Tuesday 14th November at 7pm
Thursday 22nd November at 7pm
This is suitable for parents with children of any age. The best time to start to understand your child’s use of Social Media is before they get interested in getting involved. Remember that messaging apps like Whatapp are social media as well as Facebook Instagram, Snapchat and many more.
Below is the outline for the workshop.

  • Social Media – the positives and negatives
  • Different platforms – Discussion
  • Support available
  • Questions

An Eventbrite booking link will be sent out after the October break.

 

Rag Bag Collection
Rag Bag will be coming to school on Monday 25th September.

Items We Collect

  •  Wearable Clothing
  •  Paired Shoes
  •  Handbags
  •  Belts

Please can we ask that any items you wish to donate are brought to the school reception on the day, by 9am that morning.

 

Message from Active Schools

Dear Parent/Carer,

I am excited to announce that Active Schools in partnership with Kingsbarns Primary School and Cambo Estate are hosting the Cambo Cup. This is a running event for pupils in P1-7 and is set to take place on Friday 29th September at Cambo Estate from 3:45pm-4:45pm. This is set to be a fantastic event for all involved. In order to register your child for this event if you could please complete the below sign up form no later than Thursday 28th September that would be great.  
Please note that this event will be extremely busy on the day and that all directions for car parking must be followed. This event is free of charge. 
 
If you have any questions please do just get in touch with me. 
Thank you,
Madison Garland  
Active Schools Coordinator 
Madras College Cluster