Primary 2b have been hard at work, raising the profile of Fairtrade within the school.  They have been selling bags of rice grown in Malawi.  By selling 90kg of rice, we are helping to send children to school in Malawi since only 1 in 3 children will get an education.

John Riches, pictured below, is the chairman of the fairtrade rice organisation and he came in to school to thank the children for their hard work and dedication.

On Tuesday 5th May, we hosted a celebration of our achievements as a rights respecting cluster of schools.  Kilmacolm Primary, St Francis’ Primary, St Michael’s Primary, Craigmarloch School, Port Glasgow High School and St Steven’s High School all joined us in Newark.

Our key note speaker was  the Corporate Director, Education, Communities & Organisational Development, Patricia Cassidy.

The children presented the work they had done so far on their journeys to be a rights respecting school.  Gerry McMurtrie, Children’s Rights & Information Officer, expressed his delight that Port Glasgow schools cluster were working as a partnership to develop children’s rights.

Young people from 3rd year at Port Glasgow High School helped all the schools to role play a bullying scenario that the children could then perform to their respective schools.

Primary 4b Assembly was about their learning of Reciprocal Reading.  They all spoke confidently about the strategies learned – Clarifying, Questioning, Summarising and Predicting.  They also sang a song they had written, accompanied by Mr Armour on the guitar.