Learning Community Shared Vision and Values

As a Learning Community, we would like to work together on a shared vision and values in consultation with pupils, parents, staff and partners. The aim is to come up with a shared vision and values for our learners from 3-18 across all establishments in the Learning Community. We would appreciate all parents/carers completing the short questionnaire which can be accessed by the link: https://goo.gl/forms/SiQTORsXHng11nOq1

Overton Farm Blossom Day Competition 2018

Earlier this months the ECO Committee were excited to organise our entries into the Clyde Valley Blossom Day Competition organised by Overton Farm.  The theme of the competition was “Flowers From Recycled Materials” and the judges were impressed by the standard of creative entries from all of the participating schools.

Some of the Sandford Primary entries

Winner of the competition was Daisy Taylor of Primary 7.  Daisy’s prize is a class visit to Overton Farm.  Primary 6/7 are really looking forward to their visit on Friday this week.

Well done to Daisy and everyone else for their fantastic entries!

Rights Respecting Schools Silver Award Success

We are delighted to have achieved the next stage of the Rights Respecting Schools Award, Silver: Rights Aware.

The Unicef assessor who visited us was impressed by our progress in embedding the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in our policy, practice and culture, and by the pupils’ knowledge of the Convention and the work we have done to promote children’s rights, both locally and globally.

Well done everyone!

Clean Up Scotland Sticker Competition

Keep Scotland Beautiful recently challenged schools across Scotland to design a sticker which said thank you to the thousands of Clean Up Scotland volunteers helping to remove rubbish from the countryside, seaside and roadsides.

All of our pupils submitted an entry and the competition received over 1,200 entries which were then judged by Keep Scotland Beautiful with the help of Helping Hand Environmental.  We were delighted to hear that the top prize was awarded to Zoe Barbour in P7, with her entry shown above.

Zoe has received her prize, a school Clean Up kit by Helping Hand Environmental and Keep Scotland Beautiful.

 

Heather McLaughlin, Community Projects Officer at Keep Scotland Beautiful, commented:

“I would like to thank everyone who took the time to enter the Clean Up Scotland sticker competition. All entries were fantastic, which made the judging particularly difficult, and we look forward to seeing Zoe’s design featuring on Clean Up Scotland stickers that go to all registered clean up participants this year.”

Well done Zoe!