It has been a busy week at Holmston!
Scottish Shortbread for Syria
The Primary 1’s and Mrs MacInness’ group have been busy making shortbread in celebration of Burn’s Night. They decided to link this to a very worth while initiative from UNICEF called #Bake for Syria. The ‘Scottish Shortbread for Syria’ will be on sale, in school, on Friday the 26th of January and Thursday 1st of February at break. Any left over biscuits will be sold in the playground at the end of the day.
Holocaust Memorial Day
The upper school pupils learned about Holocaust Memorial Day and the Kindertransport at assembly last week. To follow up on this Primary 7 participated in a very inspiring lesson exploring the life story of Renie Inow, who escaped Germany before WW2 on the Kindertrasport. They investigated the ‘Power of Words’ and learned the importance of their thoughts and opinions – Primary 7 felt empowered to write some very inspiring postcards to Renie.
Some quotes from their work…
Your story made me feel inspired to stand up for children’s rights Carly
I didn’t know what Kindertransport was and your story helped me find out. Alana
Your story has inspired me to keep in touch with my friend in England more and to go and visit my Gran more. Grace
The pupils linked their learning to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. They looked at a list of all the rights and could very easily see which articles were important and directly related to the protection and safety of children.
Nelson Mandela 27
Pupils across the whole school have been participating in Show Racism the Red Card. They have been working extremely hard with Mrs Messner during Creativity time to explore and investigate apartheid and Nelson Mandela. In celebration of Mandela’s 27 years of freedom pupils have produced wonderful pieces of work that demonstrate their knowledge, creativity and understanding.
Rights Respecting Schools Ambassadors
Church Visit
Our ambassadors are preparing for their visit to the Auld Kirk on Sunday the 4th of February from 11am – 12pm. While there, they will share our journey as a rights respecting school!
RRSA Videos
A small number of pupils have begun work on our very own Holmston Rights Respecting Video! We cannot wait to continue with this and hopefully interview some pupils and members of staff!
Dinner Hall Charter
Our Ambassadors have all completed a homework challenge – to create a design for our new dinner hall charter. The dinner hall staff have been invited to a meeting with Primary 5, the RRS Ambassadors, Mr Hardy and Mrs Reid on Wednesday the 31st of February to choose the winning design!
A few of our entries so far…
Phew! Looking forward to next week!
