Today is Children in Need day (click on the picture to go to the official BBC site), and the sixth year Charity Committee will be selling wristbands around the school. They come in four gorgeous bright colours and cost a mere £1 each. Buy a wristband and wear it – you know Pudsey wants you to!
Today is Remembrance Day – the eleventh day of the eleventh month. There will be a one minute silence at eleven o’clock, and a short ceremony will be held in the foyer, next to the school memorial board.
Being able to read and write is one of the most basic human rights and something that many of us take for granted. Without literacy, people are more vulnerable to poverty, inequality and unstable jobs.
Sunday 8th September is UNESCO’s International Literacy Day and the theme this year is Literacies for the 21st Century, with a focus on all the different skills that are needed to enable people to be literate as we move into the future.
Find out more at the UNESCO site – click on the picture to go there.
This Sunday is Remembrance Day. Remembrance is always marked on the eleventh minute of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. When it falls on a school day, we have a wreath-laying ceremony at the memorial board to the right of the main door to the school. Have a look at the board – it’s an important part of the history of our school.
If you want to buy a poppy, the sixth years are selling them around school and they are also available in the library.
Today, in 1925, John Logie Baird demonstrated the first working television – where would we be without him? He was of course a Scottish scientist, born in Helensburgh. To find out more about him, click on the picture to go to the BBC History pages about him, or have a look at some of the books in the Technology section of the library.
Avast there me hearties, today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day so I expect to hear lots of ‘Aye Ayes’ and ‘Avast Ye’ s echoing around the library today. I would suggest, that unless you want to walk the plank, you don’t try talking like a pirate in class!
You could try reading like a pirate instead. There are masses of stories set in the world of piracy, from the classic ‘Treasure Island’ to the hilarious ‘Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!’. Have a look at the display at the main desk and read a pirate book today.
Today, in 1963, Martin Luther King made his famous ‘I Have a Dream’ speech at the Lincoln memorial in Washington.
You can find the full text of his speech here, or in the Human Rights section of the library.