This week the Amnesty/RRSA group are trying to raise awareness of human rights issues across the school in a variety of ways (more to follow later).
This morning, in registration, pupils will be shown a video clip summarising the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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The Advanced Higher Geography class along with Miss Jeffrey attended a 2 night residential fieldwork course at the Kindrogan Field Studies Centre in Perthshire in order to learn sampling and processing techniques to apply to our Geographical Studies.
We arrived at the centre at noon on Monday the 29th September and ate our lunch outside in the sunshine before meeting with our tutor and the other school groups attending the course at the same time.
After the introduction we headed out into the field to assess a Soil Catena. We climbed a ridiculously steep and muddy slope to measure different factors of the soil at different points up the hill. We took measurements of soil...
read more...The RRSA (Rights Respecting Schools Award) and Amnesty International have now joined forces.
The group have worked well as a team to present an assembly to the S1 and S2 year groups. They did a fantastic job of making
a PowerPoint, making posters and making delicious goodies to sell at a Bake and Badge sale. The group managed to raise over £17 selling One water which will go to Unicef. £60 was raised for Amnesty International which will go towards helping to protect the human and helping those who have had their human rights taken away.
There are over 6,000 languages in the world. Every year on the 26th of September the European Day of Languages aims to celebrate this. Pupils will be taking part in a variety of activities within their French classes. There will also be 5 daily challenges to get involved in. All you have to do is complete the daily challenge and bring your evidence to Miss McBride or Mrs Cochrane to claim a merit and a prize.
The link below will take you to a website that has an audio recording of 'Irish Suite'- this years Christmas concert piece.
Click here to access the audio recording and click on the speaker icon to play.
