Newton Primary School
World Water Day: On March 22nd, Primary 4 presented a World Water Day Assembly to the rest of the school. We shared lots of facts, like:
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750 million people around the world don’t have access to clean fresh water.
It is dangerous to drink dirty water and every 15 seconds a child somewhere in the world dies from drinking unclean water.
• On a typical day most people in Scotland use around 150 litres of clean fresh water. •
If you had to walk to collect your water like lots of people in other countries do, it would be the same as walking from Dunblane to Bridge of Allan and back 10 times each day!
We explained that Global Goals Number 6 is for everyone to have clean, safe water by 2030. Charities like Water Aid can help us to achieve this goal by May and Kirsten.
On Wednesday 15th March, we had a visitor from Water Aid. She told us all about the countries that don’t have safe water (the water that they drink has parasites and bacteria in it). On Monday 27th March Primary 4 took part in a ‘Sponge The Teacher’ event to raise money for Water Aid and they got very, very wet! We had lots of fun! We raised approximately £150 to help Water Aid provide clean, safe water for 10 families. By Harvey, Alex, Ella, Megan, Alby and Euan
Newton’s Healthy Tuck: This term Primary 6 have been running a business called “Pen Pineapple Apple Tuck” as part of our learning context
Healthy Heroes. This helped us to answer 2 big questions: “Where is the best place to buy fruit in Dunblane?” and “How do we run a successful business to persuade young children to eat healthy?”
First, we found the best place to buy fruit and vegetables by looking at online shops to compare prices. We decided on our local fruit seller Mr Dunlop because he is local, gave us a 10% discount and would deliver for free! We nominated each other for departments according to our skills so that we could run an efficient business through sharing the work, these included: Accounts, Admin, Marketing, Operations, HR/Customer Services and Advertising. Market research carried out a survey to find out what people in the school
wanted us to sell them. Advertising made eye catching posters. HR checked everyone was working well. Admin sent a Parentmail with information and Operations organised rotas, price lists and timetables. Once we had decided on our name (Pen Pineapple Apple Tuck) we had a logo and slogan competition and here is the winning design!
After we had run our Healthy Tuck, the Accounts team counted the money and calculated our profit and Customer Service checked our customers were happy with the service. The total amount of profit was £252! We are donating our profits to two charities; ‘Cancer Research’ and ‘Mary’s Meals’. We chose Mary’s Meals because it links well to the Global Goal Number 2 - Zero Hunger. By Rhys, Eden, Amy and Findlay
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