Category Archives: Whole School
Fairtrade Fortnight Week 2
What a fantastic 2 weeks of Fairtrade Activities we have immersed ourselves in at Beatlie.
Thank you to all the staff for providing and supporting the children in participating in such fun activities and sharing the message of how important it is for us all to support Fairtrade Farmers and Workers in the world we live in today!
Fairtrade Fortnight Week 1
(Article 27, every child has the right to a standard of living that is good enough to meet their physical and social needs and support their development)
What a busy week we have had immersing ourselves in all things Fairtrade!
Please have a look at the films below to give you a taster of what we have been up to.
Foodbank Collection
THANK YOU
Wow what generosity! Amazing to see so much come into school despite the circumstances we are under at the moment. There will be very appreciative families out there who will be so thankful for the donations you have given, so on behalf of those families and from Beatlie – Thank You!
Under normal circumstances we would have a visit to the foodbank with some of the children taking the boxes along – unfortunately we will not be able to do this at this time so a member of staff is arranging a drop off for next week.
Fairtrade Fortnight & The Sustainable Development Goals
Fairtrade Fortnight 2021
Fairtrade Fortnight 2021
Fairtrade Fortnight 2021 will take place from
Monday 22nd February to Sunday 7th March
This annual campaign, brings together everyone interested in fighting for justice for people and our planet.
Fairtrade, Climate and You
In Fairtrade Fortnight 2021, we will focus on the growing challenges that climate change brings to farmers and workers in the communities Fairtrade works with. Farmers and workers are feeling the impact of the climate emergency now despite having contributed to it the least.
They tell us that:
- Climate change is one of their biggest challenges right now.
- Low prices for their crops mean that they are struggling to fight back.
- With more money through Fairtrade, they feel more equipped to meet their everyday needs and deal with the challenges posed by climate change.
This Fairtrade Fortnight, we are asking you to #ChooseTheWorldYouWant
https://www.fairtrade.org.uk/choose-the-world-you-want/
Foodbank Collections
Dear Parent / Carer,
We are organising a collection for West Lothian Foodbank again this year. This will help to provide local families across West Lothian with vital support over the Winter period and during these uncertain times. More information can be found on their website at https://westlothian.foodbank.org.uk//
A typical food parcel would contain a wide variety of items. Some suggestions given on the website include the following:
Long Life (UHT) Milk Tinned beans Biscuits
Breakfast cereals Tinned meat (including Tuna) Pasta sauce
Soup Tinned vegetables (including potatoes) Snacks
Pasta Tinned fruit
Rice Tea or coffee
If you would like to contribute in any way, please send your donations into school with your child between now and end of February. We will be following government guidelines ensuring the safe transitioning of goods with a box for each class to allow for quarantine.
Many thanks.
Outdoor Learning
This term Glendevon and Ochiltree have been very creative collecting different resources from the forest floor to use as tools in art. We have painted by rolling pine cones, swishing with fir tree branches, pressing with stones, rolling with conkers. We have even used other shaped branches to create patterns in paint. We realise now we don’t need to buy paintbrushes again!
We also made our own natural paints using beetroot, spinach, cocoa, raspberries from our garden and turmeric too. We had great fun mixing and adding baking soda to the beetroot made the red colour change to violet!
As well as this we have also been working on a Christmas project too which you will receive soon.
Merry Christmas everyone
Catherine Duffin
Unicef Outright Campaign 2020
OutRight is Unicef UK’s annual youth campaign that empowers children and young people to speak out about children’s rights on World Children’s Day – 20 November – the anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It’s a campaign by children, for children, that helps children and young people to promote and protect children’s rights in the UK and around the world.
Beatlie is one of more than 5,000 Unicef UK Rights Respecting Schools across the UK that embed children’s rights in their ethos and culture.
We hope that through the campaign not only the children got to experience how climate change is making an impact on our planet and they have had the freedom to express their feelings and understanding of what they have participated in but you have also:
- Learnt about climate change and its impacts
- Learnt how climate change and its impacts affect children’s rights
- Use your voices to call on decision-makers to take actions on climate change that prioritise children’s rights.
Please have a look at our fantastic children having fun and learning over the last 3 weeks culminating with World Children’s Day.
Climate Change Quiz Answers
It is time for the answers.
How well did we all do?
Thank you all for your participation over the last 3 weeks. I hope you all found it informative and perhaps make you think about what you can do no matter how small to make the World a better place for generations to come!
