Musselburgh Burgh Primary School

We are delighted to announce the following exciting news:

MUSSELBURGH BURGH PRIMARY SCHOOL IS NOW OFFICIALLY RECOGNISED AS A UNICEF UK SILVER: RIGHTS AWARE SCHOOL!

The Rights Respecting Schools Award supports schools to embed the UNCRC into their everyday practice and ethos.

We relaunched our work on this at the beginning of last session and have been learning about the rights, through the rights and for the rights across all areas of our curriculum.

This ensures our pupils are aware of their rights and how duty bearers (adults) help them to access these rights.

Our hard work has now been recognised by UNICEF following a virtual school visit earlier this week and we are delighted to announce that we have been awarded our SILVER Rights Respecting School Award!

You can read our Silver Accreditation Report from the Rights Respecting Schools Association here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QhwKlraoo3hkdhruaLhASEgF7l5cWo0z/view?usp=sharing

While this has been a collective effort involving all of our pupils, their families and our staff, extra special thanks must go to Mrs Macdonald for all of her hard work in leading the Burgh through this process and making this vision a wonderful reality.

We look forward to continuing and building on our work in school and with our wider school community.

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We are becoming a Unicef UK Rights Respecting School!Musselburgh Burgh Primary School aims to be a school where children’s rights are at the heart of our ethos and culture, to improve well-being and to develop every child’s talents and abilities to their full potential.  As part of this plan we are working towards recognition as a ‘Rights Respecting School’, an award given to schools on behalf of Unicef UK.

Unicef is the world’s leading organisation working for children and young people and their rights. In 1989, governments across the world agreed that all children have the same rights by adopting the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). These rights are based on what a child needs to survive, grow, participate and fulfil their potential.

Pupils will learn about their rights by putting them into practice every day. A Rights Respecting School models rights and respect in all its relationships. We have been completing lots of work in class and have started the New Year by introducing a right of the month in assembly.

We really hope that you will be able to support our school on our journey towards becoming a Unicef UK Rights Respecting School. You can find a bit more about the Convention on the Rights of the Child by visiting unicef.org.uk/crc.

For further information about Rights Respecting Schools please visit:  www.unicef.org.uk/rrsa

Many thanks

Emily Macdonald

We have been busy working alongside our friends from Golden Dove Primary School.

Here are some of the things we have been doing:

• Two of our 2020/21 Pupil Council members made this <<video>> of our school. We then shared it with our Ugandan link school – Golden Dove Junior School. They then shared some <<photos>> of their school garden and the children tending to it. We had to Google what some of the vegetables were!
  

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• We have been learning how to build our resilience using the ‘Building Resilience’ whole school program. Our 2020/21 Pupil Council interviewed our Ugandan link school’s Head Teacher, Aisha Matovu, about what lockdown was like for her and how she demonstrated resilience throughout it. The Ugandan schools have largely been closed for 2021 and are still closed as of December 2021. You can view part of this interview <<HERE>>
  

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• Golden Dove Junior School in Ugandan sent us some letters describing their experience of lockdown. They’re so interesting as their lack of access to the internet has made their educational experience extremely different to ours. Please do have a read of them HERE. Our wonderful P5/6 class then replied trying to show empathy and awareness and sharing some of their personal experiences.

Get into Summer is a Scottish Government-funded initiative to help children, young people and families have fun throughout the holiday period.

The activities have all been planned to help children and young people who have been particularly affected by the pandemic to make the most of their summer and connect with others.

There are lots of activities on offer from council services, local clubs and community groups.

Activities may be funded for priority families to ensure that costs aren’t a barrier to taking part.

Find out more <<HERE>>

As part of our school’s review of our vision values and aims, we want to draw on the views and opinions of our whole school community so that our shared aspirations for our children are at the heart of everything we do.

It is important that our values and our vision recognise the things that matter to our whole Burgh family, and that our aims reflect the high expectations we all have for each of our learners.

In this way we can ensure that every action and each step we take is in the same direction and towards the same shared ambitious goal.

Please take just a few minutes to tell us what really matters to you so that we can use your views to shape our common purpose.

The link to the survey can be found <<HERE>>

Share your views on our East Lothian’s Learning Estate

An online questionnaire to gather the views of local communities on the council’s existing learning estate went live on Monday (22 February 2021).

Phase 1 of the Learning Estate Review pre-consultation has been designed to offer schools and communities the opportunity to share their opinions on the condition of the existing learning estate. The pre-consultation will also gather views on how well the school estate supports learning. 

The questionnaire will run from 22 February – 15 March on the council’s Consultation Hub, to provide an easy and accessible way for people to participate.

Phase 2 of the process will involve a series of online community engagement workshops, which will run from 10 – 28 May. 

The survey is available to view here and will be live for responses from Monday 22 February 2021.

The January Newsletter is available to view now.

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