Edinburgh's Hogmany in Aid of Unicef

  https://www.unicef.org.uk/edinburgh-hogmanay/

Edinburgh's Hogmanay

in aid of Unicef

Following 2015’s successful partnership, Edinburgh’s Hogmanay has once again joined with Unicef to help children in danger.

Last year, Edinburgh’s Hogmanay raised a fantastic amount of money to protect the children of Syria. However, the conflict has continued and there are now more children in urgent need of life-saving aid. These children have lost loved ones, homes and schools. They need someone to keep them safe and warm this winter.

Unicef will be raising money for Syria’s children through the Torchlight Parade on 30 December and various activities on New Year’s Eve, including turning Edinburgh’s most iconic buildings blue at 10pm to highlight Unicef’s work. The whole city will join together to help children in danger.

Sciennes Pupils' Voices Heard on Food Insecurity

In May 2016, pupils from current P5B (then P4B) gave their opinions on a variety of issues relating to Food Insecurity, in a wonderful morning of engaging and thought provoking activities designed and led by Dr Chelsea Marshall and a team from Nourish Scotland, based at Summerhall. You can read the full report they contributed to here:

http://www.cypcs.org.uk/ufiles/limitjs.pdf

Listening to what children think about food insecurity

    Acknowledgements

This report was commissioned by the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland; all copyright permission belongs to the Commissioner’s office. Photographs by Alan McCredie, design by graphics coop.

The authors of this report are: Elli Kontorravdis, Olga Bloemen and Bella Crowe from Nourish Scotland. With kind thanks to Home-Start UK Scotland for co-ordination of the activity session logistics, and to children’s rights consultant Dr Chelsea Marshall whose support was integral to the design and delivery of the activity sessions. Thanks also to Sciennes Primary School for hosting a pilot session providing valuable feedback, and to Dr Flora Douglas for comments and feedback throughout the research. Most importantly, thank you to the children and families who gave their time to share thoughts on food insecurity, and the children that contributed drawings and photographs, we hope this report is an accurate reflection of your views.

Article 12

You have the right to an opinion and for it to be listened to and taken seriously.

Article 27

You have the right to have a good enough standard of living.

Mapping Global Goals to UNCRC

https://www.unicef.org/agenda2030/files/SDG-CRC_mapping_FINAL.pdf

Parent Council Volunteering Meeting Monday 5th December

A sub group of our Parent Council is meeting on Monday 5th December (United Nations International Volunteer Day!) 9.00am-10.00am in the Staff Room to explore ways to increase opportunities for parents to volunteer in school. 

Any interested parents are very welcome to attend.

Sciennes' Pupil Voices Heard by Scottish Government

In June 2016, some of our pupils were invited to take part in a consultation exercise led by Children's Parliament (based at Summerhall) on behalf of the Scottish Government. The pupils gave their views on the minimum age of criminal responsibility in Scotland; set at eight years of age with a proposal to raise it to twelve years of age.

This report outlines some of the responses from all the young people who took part in the project:

http://www.childrensparliament.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Minimum-age-of-Criminal-Responsibility-CP-Final-Report-2016.pdf

On Thursday 30th November, Early Years Minister Mark McDonald announced that the Scottish government is to introduce a bill to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 12.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-38160549

Article 12

You have the right to an opinion and for it to be listened to and taken seriously.

Article 40

You have the right to help in defending yourself if you are accused of breaking the law.