Sport relief on Friday!

We are selling socks for sport relief!

Please remember your £2!

We are also having a design a 'funky sock' competition, a penalty kick challenge with Gary and Michael, a Lazy Town party for the early years and a Wii challenge.

See you there!

Haiti Earthquake Children's Appeal

A message from UNICEF

EMERGENCIES DENY CHILDREN OF THEIR RIGHTS.

All children have rights, all of the time. They have the right to a childhood. They have the right to be educated. They have the right to be treated fairly. And they have the right to be heard.

But during emergency situations children are at most risk of being denied these rights. Amid the chaos, children annot live their normal lives.  Instead, they face separation from their family. They often become vulnerable to exploitation and abuse. And their lives can be put at risk by disease, malnutrition and dehydration.

Unicef  photo gallery of children affected by the earthquake in Haiti.

UNICEF provides supplies to ensure children's basic rights can be protected in emergencies. This week children at Glaitness will be deciding how they can best help children in Haiti through fundraising. We will let you know what the Pupil Council and classes decide they are going to do.

Please support our fundraising efforts!

Find out what it was like to be caight up in the earthquake by reading this Oxfam aid worker's diary.

Play!

Do you have a great time together at school?

Tell us what you do when you play together.

Look out for Pupil Council members in the playground, take a speech bubble and write on it or post a comment on this blog. Your comments will be displayed on the Rights Respecting School wall.

Giving the gowns

Here in school we continue to make gowns with the Tshirts we have collected. You can see the Blue Peter team giving out the gowns Guwahati in India, on the Send a Smile campaign video here.

A Rights Respecting School

We have registered our school for the Rights Respecting School Award which has been developed by UNICEF. The Award has been developed to help everyone in schools behave responsibly by respecting each others rights.

190 of the world's 195 countries have promised to recognise the rights of children.

Click here to download a leaflet which summarises the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

In a similar way to your class representatives going along to the Pupil Council to represent you, we have MPs who go to the government meetings to represent all the people in Orkney. Alistair Carmichael does this job in London for Orkney and Shetland. He will be coming into school with some of the people who work for UNICEF to see what we do at Glaitness to try our best to be a Rights Respecting School.

Send a Smile

This year's Blue Peter Appeal is called 'Send a Smile'. The appeal is to support the global charity called Operation Smile which helps children with cleft palates all over the world. Click here to see a CBBC Newsround article about the appeal.

Blue Peter is asking children to turn unwanted T-shirts into surgical gowns. The target is 20 000 gowns which will save the charity an amazing £60 000 - enough money for 300 operations!

We are asking for donations of unwanted T-shirts, of any size or colour, which we can customise.

Please support us!

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Thank you for all the Tshirts we have collected so far!

Children in Need 2009

This Friday, 20th November, we are having a dressing up day on the theme of movies and celebrities. Everyone who dresses up will give £1 donation to Children in Need.

Coins will be collected to make a Pudsey in the Playground (or hall if the weather is bad).

There will be Pudsey buns or biscuits for sale.

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We raised £366.45 by baking and dressing up. We made a huge Pudsey out of coins in the hall.