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Children’s Parliament & AI Project

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Primary 4/5 have been involved in a two year project with the Children’s Parliament and the Alan Turing Institute.  We have been extremely fortunate to have had the opportunity to find out more about Children’s Rights and the UNCRC and also explore Artificial Intelligence.

We would like to say a big ‘thank you’ to all the pupils who have contributed to this project over the past two years.  Special thanks go to our three ‘Investigators’ who have taken part in online calls with the other 3 schools involved throughout Scotland.  They have passed the views, ideas and concerns of the rest of the class on to those running the project and have been brilliant ambassadors for our school, especially when they took part in the AI Summit at Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh.

If you would like to see what the project involved, please watch the video which shows some of the work we’ve carried out this year.

Exploring Children’s Rights and AI – Stage 2 (youtube.com)

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JRSO Presentations

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On Monday 26th June, our JRSOs visited the Town Hall, along with 33 other pupils from across Shetland, to share all of the brilliant work they have been doing in school to promote road safety awareness

Councillor Robbie McGregor presented them with certificates, recognising their efforts over the past academic year.

Well done to you all!  What fantastic representatives of our school!

JRSO 2022-23

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Let me introduce our new Junior Road Safety Officers for this session.  Today they met with Elaine Skinley who gave them lots of Road Safety goodies to use throughout the year with the classes in the school.

We had our first meeting last week and the group have already filled a page with ideas of things they want to do this year.  Road Safety Week is coming up next term so keep an eye out for some exciting things happening in school!

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Archie Foundation Book Competition Winner

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Pupils who were in P4/5/6 last year, took part in a competition run by The Archie Foundation.  They were asked to illustrate a page for a book called, ‘Archie and Amanda’s Amazing Adventures,’ by author Alec Franks.  The story is about a little girl in hospital and it is hoped it will be relatable to young patients at The Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital.

We were delighted to learn that Leah Sandiland’s (P6)  picture has been selected for the book and is currently at the printers!  There were hundreds of entries so huge congratulations to Leah!

All pupil entries will be displayed in Union Square, Aberdeen, over the weekend of 8th and 9th October, with Dunrossness entries being displayed on the 9th.  The author will be doing live readings and copies of the book can be bought at the event.  We hope to be sent a copy for us to see in school.

Well done to all the pupils who took part.  Any one of you could have been a winner!

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Euroquiz

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Our Dunrossness Euroquiz Team were excited to take part in the Shetland Heat today.  We won’t hear any results until next week but we want to congratulate them for studying in their own time to prepare for the day and for the amazing support and encouragement they gave each other along the way.  They scored extremely highly in the languages round which is fantastic!  Whatever the result, we are proud of you all!  Thanks also, to Lily who prepared but could not take part on the day and to Mrs Colvin who sat with them through the test.
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JRSO Activities

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Next week, please look out for the final activities that have been prepared by our Junior Road Safety Officers.  The theme is being bright and visible during the daytime.   See details along with each photo below. There will be a prize for the brightest, most visible T-shirt design from each class! Entries to your class teacher by 21st June so our JRSOs can judge them before the holidays.  🚗

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Meet the new Junior Road Safety Officers!

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This year’s Junior Road Safety Officers are Hannah,  Ava,  Anders and Magnus.

This year I’m hoping to be a good example for the younger ones.  Anders.

This year I am looking forward to learning more about road safety. Magnus.

I’m looking forward to communicating with you all over glow.  Hannah.

I’m looking forward to working together in a group and seeing the ideas we will come up with.  Ava

Here we are with Elaine Skinley, the Road Safety Officer.

Our team got straight to work counting out how many reflectors were needed for each Primary class.  They will be quarantined until next week before being given out.  We hope they help to keep you safe on the darker nights!

Look out for more JRSO posts in the future!

 

 

 

 

 

 

SMUHA

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SMUHA is fast approaching and plans are afoot for another wonderful SMUHA week! Once plans are finalised later this week for Monday to Thursday we will share the timetable. We would love for friends and family to come in and join us for some of the activities.

SMUHA DAY – All Welcome

9.15: Muster in playground

9.30: Procession led by P7 Jarl Squad

10.00: Burning at Boddam Playing Field

11.00: Teas, coffees, cakes and biscuits for sale in school. A chance to buy some SMUHA Enterprise produce.

11.30: Squad Acts in hall

2.00: Jarl Squad arrives in school

Please join us if you can. Best day of the school year!