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Three cheers After this, we encouraged registration with balloons and decorations in the
classes to enter the seven word
School Hall. We wrapped the Old
for children’s story competition which was run by Building in a blue ribbon for UNICEF’s
‘Go Blue’ campaign. Everyone was
Scotland’s Children’s and Young People’s
rights as 30th Commissioner. We gave our own prize given birthday stickers to help us
to Eloise Manson, Zahra Shafique and appreciate our rights. Mr Timms also
anniversary is William Berridge of S1GE for their story: had a starring role in the assembly
‘Children should be protected, listened and answered questions about
marked to, loved.’ To further mark the event, a 1989, which is also his birth year. We

blue flag was flown from the school and enjoyed celebrating World Children’s
In a double celebration, the school we also persuaded Edinburgh Castle to Day as it made us realise how truly
marked World Children’s Day on fly a blue flag to show their support for lucky we are to be protected by
November 20 and acknowledged children’s rights. children’s rights.
the 30th anniversary of the United
Nations Convention on the Rights of At our special assembly, we had a The Rights Respecting Schools
the Child. The aim of the convention birthday party for children’s rights Group
is to recognise the rights of children
and young people and ensure that
they grow up in the spirit of peace,
dignity, tolerance, freedom, equality
and solidarity. The UNCRC was
drafted in 1989 and is the most
well-known human rights treaty in
history.

For World Children’s Day, every
registration class wrote the ‘right’
which was most important to them
on a paper chain slip. These slips
were transformed into paper chains
which were then displayed around
the school. This made us aware of
how every right makes a difference.

Arkwright Scholarship S5 trio among the UK’s

recognises pupils’ most logical thinkers

potential In November, more than 470 pupils from P6 to S6

participated in the Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge.
Duncan Milligan and Victoria McTrusty, both of S5, were The Bebras Challenge is an international competition in which
awarded an Arkwright
Scholarship. Scholars are pupils have to solve a number of fun logical-thinking problems
selected for their potential online. These puzzles tested our pupils’ skills in areas such as
as future engineering pattern recognition, decomposition, and algorithm creation.
leaders by assessing Paolo Benzoni, Steven Hill and Theo Michell, all in S5, were
their academic, practical amongst the top 60 highest scorers in their age group
and leadership skills in
engineering disciplines. (from more than 7,000 participants) and they attended
Duncan and Victoria the final round and prize-giving ceremony at Oxford
received their award at University in February. Some 110 other pupils scored in
an official ceremony in the top 10 per cent nationally (from a total, across all age
November. In addition, groups, of 260,000 participants) and were invited to take
Freya Groves and Max part in another competition aimed at developing talented
McLellan were awarded computational thinkers, the TCS Oxford Computing Challenge.
their second year of
Arkwright funding. Mr Jeremy Scott

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