Our new teacher, Mrs Holt, has quickly taken on board the responsibility of the P4-7 class. As well as being a perfect fit within the staff team, she has embraced her leadership role as co-ordinator of the Rights Respecting Schools initiative. As a warm up for the P7 Citizenship Day at Perth High School (PHS), she organised a Whole School Citizenship Day for us at Abernyte. Working in mixed age co-operative learning groups, with all staff involved, the children considered how they could be good citizens from a personal perspective to a global perspective. A great platform for the children to use their higher order thinking skills, discussions on personalities, politics and behaviour were intermingled with games and biscuit baking – the latter activity giving Mrs Holt and Mrs Khazaka the opportunity to put their recently honed skills gained on the “Cooking Bus” into practice!