Carol Singing

Yes we know it is only November but this afternoon we went up to the hall to sing to the residents of Isleshavn who were having their  Christmas dinner.

It was lovely to hear the residents singing along with the children and after they finished singing the children went round to talk to the residents which they enjoyed.

 

 

World Children’s Day

Today is World Children’s Day and this afternoon the Fetlar Primary bairns came into school to work with us on the outright campaign.

The OutRight 2017 campaign is focussing on the rights of unaccompanied refugee children – in particular their right to protection and thier right to family reunification.

Did you know that right now, refugee children are in real danger? 50 million children have been uprooted from teir homes, most forced to flee from violent conflict. Many of them are making dangerous journeys, risking their lives in search of safety and close family.

Family comes in so many different shapes and forms. What it represents is what counts – love, care, protection, warmth – things that no child should be without. This is what children are missing out on when they’re torn apart from their loved ones by circumstances beyond their control, be it war, poverty or conflict.

All too often children have lost their parents, been forced to leave them behind, or found themselves separated from them due to the perils of war. They often find themselves alone and at risk of violence, abuse and exploitation. What they need is for the UK refugee family reunion law to allow them to reunite with close family in the UK, from wherever they are.

Under the current law, children have to make their own way to Europe to be able to reunite with older siblings, aunts and uncles, and grandparents waiting for them in the UK. Children fleeing war and persecution shouldn’t have to make these needless, dangerous and often deadly journeys.

The Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, has the power to change the UK Refugee Family Reunion law, and help to urgently reunite children with their families, where they belong. So we will be writing to Amber Rudd again this year to support Unicef UKs calls on the UK Government and help reunite refugee families in the UK where they belong, based on their right to protection and to family life:

  • Article 10 (Family reunification): governments must respond quickly and sympathetically if a child or their parents apply to live together in the same country. If a child’s family members live in different countries the child has the right to visit and keep in contact with them.
  • Article 22 (Refugee children): if a child is seeking refuge or has refugee status, governments must provide them with appropriate protection and assistance to help them enjoy all the rights in the Convention. Governments must help refugee children who are separated from their parents to be reunited with them.

The UK’s refugee laws divide families. Currently the UK Government doesn’t recognise a brother or a grandma as family – at least not if you are a refugee. We do not think this is right and think this should be changed. Under the current laws, children must reach Europe to be able to reunite with older siblings, aunts and uncles, and grandparents waiting for them in the UK. Children fleeing war and persecution shouldn’t have to make these needless, dangerous journeys across land and sea to be with their family in the UK!

 

Fantastic effort from Cullivoe Primary School

Wow, what a day we have had at the Cullivoe Primary School!

Ruby and Poppy were in charge of taking note of how long we danced for each song and counted this up to give us a total of 77 minutes and 48 seconds danced through the course of the day!

We raised £45 from selling badges and £351 from people sponsoring us to do our Just Dance which brings our total to £396 which Miss Nicholson then rounded up to £400!

We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone that sponsored us, all the pupils and staff for their enthusiasm when dancing and giving it their all and a big thank you to primary 7 who organised this all!

£400 will be on its way to Children In Need thanks to everyone at the Cullivoe Primary School!

Children in Need

Today we are raising money for Children In Need by doing a sponsored Just Dance. We have cleared the classroom and are ready to go when the whistle blows. (This is when we all have to stop what we are working on and go into the downstairs classroom and keep dancing until the second whistle blows, then we have to return back to our work)

Primary 7 have organsied everything. They have made a list of songs they want to dance to so Miss Nicholson has loaded them on the laptop so we just have to press play. They have also sorted everyone into groups so after music we will all have different stations to move around:

  • Beth’s group is going to be colouring in/wordsearch.
  • Jasmine is going to be reading stories about children in need
  • Tali is going to talk about where our money goes
  • Amanda is going to be doing a warm up

They have also ordered pudsey padges and are selling them for £1.

We will keep you posted on how the day is going and how much we raise!!

Global Goals

The eco committee have been learning about the United Nations  Global Goals. They have created presentations to tell the younger children what they have been learning.

P4 and 5 created a rap to tell us about the United Nations and how there are 17 global goals.

The eco committee looked through all these goals and chose ‘Life Below Water’ to focus on this year.

Primary 6 created a presentation about this to tell us more. They explained what sea pollution is and how this affects animals that live underwater. They told us that we should always put our rubbish in the bin and gave us ideas of who we could speak to to learn more.