Global Goals House Assemblies 15.9.17

Sciennes Global Goals House Assembly 15.9.17 from Sciennes Primary School

On Friday 15th September 2017 we held our first House Assemblies of the new session for P2-P7 and welcomed P2 pupils to their first ever House Assembly for Grange, Lauder, Sienna and Tantallon.

In November 2015 Sciennes achieved a Bronze Award and in May 2016, Sciennes achieved a Silver (Level One) "Rights Respecting School" award. We are working towards Gold accreditation (Level Two), achievable within three years of Silver. Our journey so far has been recorded on our Rights Respecting Sciennes Timeline. We asked pupils what it means to be a UNCRC Rights Respecting School and reminded them this includes being a Global Citizen, respecting other people's rights.

We first introduced our pupils to the United Nations' Global Goals for Sustainable Development when they were launched in September 2015. By 2030 these aim to:

End extreme poverty
Fight inequality & injustice
Fix climate change





On September 25th 2015, 193 world leaders committed to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs.) Two years on, we watched a rap to help us understand all the goals better.




2018 is the Year of Young People and we asked the children to think about and share their ideas for being #Goalkeepers, like Malala, Barack Obama and Bill and Melinda Gates. What world do they want to see by 2030?




'The World's Largest Lesson Part Three' has a food theme this year and we will be exploring this and other relevant Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) throughout the year. P3 will again be leading a whole school Harvest Appeal. Last year they successfully led donations to a local Foodbank charity and this year they are supporting the Send a Cow to Africa charity.



15th September is the International Day for Democracy. Congratulations to our newly elected Pupil Council members who will be the voice of their classmates throughout the year and will also be our Rights Respecting Schools Ambassadors. The results of the ECO Rep elections were also announced for each House.

Article 12

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

Article 29

The right to education which develops your personality, respect for others’ rights and the environment.

World's Largest Lesson Returns 18th September

http://worldslargestlesson.globalgoals.org

Gearing up for our third year at Sciennes Primary learning and teaching about the 17 Sustainable Development Global Goals. 

Tell everyone

Get creative

Take action

Mapping Global Goals to UNCRC

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

#globalgoalsweek Assembly 23.9.16

Sciennes Primary Global Goals Week Assembly 23.9.16 from Sciennes Primary School
 

On Friday 23rd September 2016 at the P4-7 Assembly we reflected on the messages of Global Goals Week and how we can plan to take action together on the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. Last year our main focus was on Goal 1 No Poverty and Goal 11 Reduced Inequalities. We also explored Goal 13 Climate Change and Goal 5 Gender Equality.




Pupils had been asked by The Children and Young People's Commissioner for Scotland, Tam Baillie, what they would wish for if he gave them a magic wand. He explained that their wishes were 'promises' already in place in the UNCRC. We looked at some of the children's suggestions and how the Global Goals for Sustainable Development can help achieve their wishes:




Each of our Pupil Groups - Pupil Council, Eco Group, JRSOs, P7 Captains and Digital Leaders - is making plans for the year and classes were encouraged to share their ideas with their Class Reps so that we can work together in school to take action.

P4 and P7 pupils Alba and Samara gave extraordinary performances on piano. Samara practises for many hours every day and Laila told us how she has worked hard to achieve so many Tae Kwon Do medals.

Mylo and Christopher confidently introduced our brand new iTeach Digital Leaders programme and explained how to get involved.

http://www.iteach-uk.com/dl/DigitalLeaderVideo(Primary).mp4

We celebrated lots of individual pupil achievements, including a recent win for P6 Team at Boroughmuir RFC and Pedal for Scotland medals for siblings Sam, Lizzy and Quinn.

Celebrating Wider Achievement in P6 and P7

 Junior Award Scheme for Schools (JASS) - October until May annually

Pupils in P6 and P7 will soon be introduced to Bronze and Silver JASS.
http://www.jasschools.org.uk/

http://jassawardsciennes.blogspot.co.uk/


At Sciennes we seek to recognise and celebrate our pupils' wider achievements as Successful Learners, Confident Individuals, Effective Contributors and Responsible Citizens.


JASS AWARDS in P6 and P7
We aim to allocate about six months to the Junior Award Scheme Scotland (JASS) awards at Bronze (P6) and Silver (P7) Levels and we include as many holidays within that time as possible - from the October holiday through to the Easter holiday - to help pupils achieve their goals. Towards the end of May and in early June, pupils will be asked to give a short 5 minute talk explaining how they have achieved either 8 (Bronze) or 12 (Silver) hours in each of the four categories: Get Active, Stay Active; Adventure; My Interests; Me and My World.  They will also update their online eJASS account with details of their activities. Certificates and badges will be issued before the end of term. JGHS offers Gold accreditation (18 hours in each category), achievable by the end of S2, and many of our former pupils have progressed to achieve a Duke of Edinburgh Award.


GET ACTIVE, STAY ACTIVE
Our pupils take part in so many sporting activities throughout the year that many can achieve the minimum hours in a few weeks! Walking, scooting and cycling to school can also count.


ADVENTURE
Most of our pupils will easily achieve the minimum 8 (Bronze) or 12 (Silver) Adventure award at Benmore or Lagganlia and those who do not attend can take part in adventurous local trips and activities that can count towards the JASS award, including hillwalking, kayaking, rollerblading, climbing, horseriding, cycling or walking trips in the outdoors.


ME AND MY INTERESTS
Any hobby or interest or skill (other than sport) such as learning about Science or History, sewing, calligraphy, learning or practising a musical instrument, reading, language learning, photography or computer programming for example, can count towards achieving the 8 (P6 Bronze) or 12 (P7 Silver) Me and My Interests award.


ME AND MY WORLD 
Me and My World Ideas:

Making a Difference to Others - in school, at home, in your community, locally, nationally, globally
Throughout the year, our pupils will have opportunities to volunteer to support local, national and global charities and campaigns: e.g. Food Bank, Fairtrade, Comic Relief, as well as taking part in school fundraising events at school such as the Christmas and Summer Fairs. Participation in these events counts towards the 'Me and My World' JASS award, but the award does not need to involve fundraising. Making a difference at home and in the community, by helping neighbours or gardening or clearing litter or supporting national or international campaigns can also be part of the award. Many of our pupils take part in Earth Calling after school club and might take part in local campaigns or present research about environmental issues and the Global Goals for Sustainable Development. Pupils might consider preparing and delivering a talk about a charitable or environmental organisation or deciding to give their time in some way to help others.

Global Goals One Year On

Sciennes Global Goals House Assembly 16.9.16 from Sciennes Primary School

On Friday 16th September 2016 we held our first House Assemblies of the new session for P2-P7 and welcomed P2 pupils to their first ever House Assembly.

In May 2016, Sciennes became a Level One "Rights Respecting School" and we have already begun our journey towards Level Two accreditation. Our journey so far has been recorded on our Rights Respecting Sciennes blog. We reminded pupils what it means to be a Rights Respecting School and that it includes being a Global Citizen. We first introduced our pupils to the United Nations' Global Goals for Sustainable Development when they were launched last year in September 2015. By 2030 these aim to:

End extreme poverty
Fight inequality & injustice
Fix climate change




On September 25th 2015, 193 world leaders committed to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs.) One year on, we watched a rap to help us understand all the goals better.


We thought about what we have already done in school to be Global Citizens. For example, last year the whole school took part in a City of Edinburgh pilot project to raise awareness of 1 in 5 Child Poverty (SDG1), P3 led a whole school project to raise money for 9 playgrounds for Syrian refugees (SDG10), P6 took part in Gender Equality workshops (SDG5) and our ECO Group campaigns took action on Climate Change (SDG15) and promoted Sustainable Consumption (SDG12).

We watched an animation written by Sir Ken Robinson, 'The World's Largest Lesson Part Two' which gave us ideas of what we might do next to help make a better world.


The World's Largest Lesson 2016 - with thanks to Sir Ken Robinson and Emma Watson from World's Largest Lesson on Vimeo.

Congratulations to our newly elected Pupil Council members who will be the voice of their classmates throughout the year and will also be our Rights Respecting Schools Ambassadors.

Article 29

The right to education which develops your personality, respect for others’ rights and the environment.

P6 Global Goals and Gender Equality Workshops

Half of our P6 year group took part in Free the Children workshops on Wednesday 15th June and the other half took part in workshops designed by Class Teachers Ms Fiona Sellar, Ms Jenny Gaffney and Mrs Jane Maguire to encourage pupils to think about the Sustainable Development Goals, and in particular Goal 5 Gender Equality. The three P6 classes were split into Sienna and Lauder with Free the Children and Grange and Tanatallon Houses with Class Teachers.

Firstly, pupils in mixed teams from each class considered the Global Goals, decided which three were most important to them and explained why.

In the afternoon session, they were then asked to list as many jobs as they could, categorise them into male and female occupations on Post-Its and display these. Their ideas were discussed with the whole group and pupils naturally began to recognise and realise many stereotypes in their initial attitudes.

Ms Sellar explained how Global Goal 5, Gender Equality, is a fundamental goal in achieving the other goals and showed the pupils this thought-provoking video, "Like A Girl":

Article 2 The right to protection against discrimination.

 

A Rose By Any Other Name...

 "Education (SDG 4) underpins all of the other SDGs"

Reflecting on the Emergence of the UN Sustainable Development Goals:
A Call for Action in Scotland
May East (UNITAR Fellow)
Rehema M. White (University of St Andrews, Learning for Sustainability Scotland)

At Sciennes, we have found that children, particularly younger children, find the term "Global Goals" easier to begin to understand and have benefited from accessing the excellent "Tell Everyone" and "World's Largest Lesson" resources to help share the message. However, we will try to take note of the recently published document [see link below] which calls for use of the term "Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) rather than the term "Global Goals":

http://learningforsustainabilityscotland.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ReflectionSDGsScotland_15April2016.pdf