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'Every Child Deserves a Christmas' Grant from Orkney Charitable Trust
The Orkney Charitable Trust raises and distributes funds to help young people experiencing hardship or disadvantage. This grant (£60 per child) provides assistance towards a Child’s Christmas.
To be eligible, the child must:
If you feel your family are eligible, discuss this with a teacher who can support your application. No financial evidence is required, just a genuine need.
The final date to submit applications is 17th December. The form can be accessed with this link:
To be eligible, the child must:
- Be under 16 and permanently resident in Orkney
- Be connected to a professional or voluntary organisation who can verify that a grant would make a significant difference to Christmas this year. School teachers can verify this.
If you feel your family are eligible, discuss this with a teacher who can support your application. No financial evidence is required, just a genuine need.
The final date to submit applications is 17th December. The form can be accessed with this link:
Solihull Approach Delivered to KGS Pupils
A group of pupils from Kirkwall Grammar School have been given an insight into early childhood development to help them gain knowledge and skills that will support them in their future career.
Staff from the OIC’s Early Years team have been visiting the school to deliver the Solihull Approach for Young People - Understanding yourself and parenting. The course gives an insight into early child development and looks at how babies and teenagers’ brains develop, how relationships are built between child and adult and the importance of play as a tool for learning.
The course was delivered to 12 pupils earlier this term. All the pupils have expressed an interest in a career working with babies or young children, including becoming an Early Years Practitioner, Teacher or Midwife
Staff from the OIC’s Early Years team have been visiting the school to deliver the Solihull Approach for Young People - Understanding yourself and parenting. The course gives an insight into early child development and looks at how babies and teenagers’ brains develop, how relationships are built between child and adult and the importance of play as a tool for learning.
The course was delivered to 12 pupils earlier this term. All the pupils have expressed an interest in a career working with babies or young children, including becoming an Early Years Practitioner, Teacher or Midwife
Voting for your MSYP
This week pupils will be given the opportunity to vote for Orkney's next Member for the Scottish Youth Parliament. S1 and S2, will be able to vote during their Modern Studies classes, S3 and S4, will have the opportunity to vote in their core RMPS classes. S5 and S6, or any pupil who is absent from school or doesn't get a chance to vote in class will be able to vote anytime by following this link:
http://elections.youngscot.org
This week pupils will be given the opportunity to vote for Orkney's next Member for the Scottish Youth Parliament. S1 and S2, will be able to vote during their Modern Studies classes, S3 and S4, will have the opportunity to vote in their core RMPS classes. S5 and S6, or any pupil who is absent from school or doesn't get a chance to vote in class will be able to vote anytime by following this link:
http://elections.youngscot.org
Voting opens on Monday 28th November and closes on Friday 2nd December.
Pupils will need their Young Scot number to vote.
If any pupil needs help with accessing their vote, they can see Ms Wilson in room Room F059.
Self in Society: Environmental Issues (Access 2/3) Trip. Monday 21st November 2022
The Curriculum Support RMPS group visited Sherren (a thriving woodland on the Dounby road) as part of the ‘Self in Society: Environmental Issues’ Level 3 qualification course. The group has been learning about the causes and effects of environmental damage. The trip was to help the group to continue to learn about the possible actions they can take to reduce this damage to the environment.
An action agreed was the building wildlife shelters commonly known as bug hotels, with the trip allowing members of the Curriculum Support RMPS group see examples of functional bug hotels in a thriving woodland. Many thanks to Mr David Kent (the co-owner of Sherren, and the husband of our Business manager Mrs Karen Kent), for volunteering his time to help us with this project.
An action agreed was the building wildlife shelters commonly known as bug hotels, with the trip allowing members of the Curriculum Support RMPS group see examples of functional bug hotels in a thriving woodland. Many thanks to Mr David Kent (the co-owner of Sherren, and the husband of our Business manager Mrs Karen Kent), for volunteering his time to help us with this project.
S4 (RMPS) & Curriculum Support Group (RMPS)
Wildlife Accommodation (Bug Hotel) Project, a profile
By
Theo Ogbhemhe - Teacher of Religious, Moral and Philosophical Studies
And
David Kent - Tree-planting Specialist/Conservationist
CHILDREN IN NEED 2022
Lest we forget
Today senior pupils, along with the History department, led the annual school remembrance event. Advanced Higher pupils Ellie, Jess, Oliver and Dillon shared their own heartfelt words of reflection and the poem 'For the Fallen' by Laurence Binyon. Accomplished musician Jamsie, who studies N5 History, played the last post. Lest we forget.
KGS Ski Trip Bingo
We had a great turnout for the KGS Ski Trip Bingo last night with well over 100 people there.
Massive thanks to all the parents, pupils, staff and folks in the community that provided prizes,
helped run the night, baked and came in to support us.
We raised an amazing total of £1721.
Massive thanks to all the parents, pupils, staff and folks in the community that provided prizes,
helped run the night, baked and came in to support us.
We raised an amazing total of £1721.
KGS coding prodigy wins national competition prize for the second time
An S5 student from Kirkwall Grammar School has become a second time winner in a series of national competitions aimed at raising the profile of Computing Science in schools.
Mansie was selected as a winner for the <SUMMER OF CODE/> competition with his recent entry of an AI bot that communicates using voice recognition. Inspired by Marvin from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the bot gets its responses by searching the web and uses a graphical interface Mansie designed to give a feeling of having an emotional response.
Mansie was selected as a winner for the <SUMMER OF CODE/> competition with his recent entry of an AI bot that communicates using voice recognition. Inspired by Marvin from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the bot gets its responses by searching the web and uses a graphical interface Mansie designed to give a feeling of having an emotional response.
