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Awareness week £4,702. Even though we couldn’t fundraise in
In other challenges and fundraisers, we raised
shines light on less the normal ways, we still came up with creative
ways to raise money, such as doing chores to gain
money, bake sales and sponsored walks and runs.
fortunate This money went to Save the Children, The Rock
Trust, UNICEF, and many others.
To focus attention on Poverty Awareness Week We did several lessons on poverty awareness
(March 22-26), we took part in a number of and learnt a lot. In maths, we did budgeting
challenges, raised money for charities, learnt activities which showed us how hard it is to live on
about people in poverty and donated to a local the edge of homelessness.
foodbank. In health and wellbeing, we did several lessons
One of the challenges we took part in was on how we can help tackle homelessness and
called ‘In My Shoes’. In this challenge, we poverty. P1R (pictured here) were asked to
wore the same pair of shoes for 48 hours. This differentiate between ‘wants’ and ‘needs’, and
challenge raised a whopping £2,616! Some of this discuss their opinions
money went to Invisible Cities, a social enterprise
based in Edinburgh that helps people in poverty Isabel Robinson, Kate Desmeulles and Hermione
by letting them do tours through their home Lee (P7)
town. We advertised this challenge by holding
assemblies and creating videos to tell people how
they could help.

Foodbank
Friday caps off

‘incredible’ week

On March 26, something incredible happened:
children poured into the marquee and gave the
Rights Respecting Schools Steering Group their
food donations. There were piles of bags, ripping
at the edges, getting sorted.
Foodbanks are important because they are a
place where anyone can visit and get provided
with food and other essentials that they need.
Foodbanks make sure that everyone has
something to eat and that is especially important
for people who do not always have a full belly.
We gave our huge donation to Edinburgh SE
Foodbank (The Trussell Trust). We donated to this
specific foodbank because we wanted to help our
local community.
The whole of the Rights Respecting Schools
Steering Group, as well as two kind volunteers,
were involved. There was a huge range of
donations, ranging from nappies and shampoo,
to coffee and juice, to biscuits and pasta. It was
wonderful to see all of the George Heriot’s Junior
School pupils pitch in to help the local community.
Emily Mann and Iona Mackinnon-Rae (P7)

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