{"id":2996,"date":"2018-12-15T10:11:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T10:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.aberdeen.sch.uk\/?p=2996"},"modified":"2018-12-15T10:11:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T10:11:17","slug":"10th-14th-december-2018-christmas-kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.org\/new\/2018\/12\/15\/10th-14th-december-2018-christmas-kindness\/","title":{"rendered":"10th-14th December 2018 &#8211; Christmas Kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we head towards the Christmas holidays we will try to strike a balance between keeping the focus on the work and acknowledging some of the key ideas around this time of year.<\/p>\n<p>On the work front we are very aware of the need to prepare senior pupils for prelim exams in January.&nbsp; Therefore pupils and staff know they will be working hard in class up to the end of next week.&nbsp; The same is true for pupils in S1-S3 where we are trying to impress on them the importance of working hard to ensure they are working at at level 4 or above by the time they are finishing S3.&nbsp; &nbsp;Parents are urged to support us by ensuring they do not take pupils off outwith the school holiday period and they get pupils in school, every day, ready for work.<\/p>\n<p>We will have some activities linked to the festive season and these have been grouped around the theme of &#8220;Christmas Kindness&#8221;.&nbsp; We recognise that many of our children come from Christian families and that this is a very special time of year for them.&nbsp; We also recognise that many of our children come from families of other faith backgrounds and from a no faith background and who do not have the same relationship with some aspects of the celebration of Christmas.&nbsp; We also serve a very diverse pupil population which includes people from affluent households and people who are living in poverty.&nbsp; We have some youngsters who thrive on the excitement of the festive season and we have others who become incredibly stressed by excitement and changes to routines.&nbsp; We need to ensure that whet we do is accessible to all and which includes everyone.<\/p>\n<p>With all of this in mind we have come up with an overarching theme of &#8220;Christmas Kindness&#8221; &#8211; where we try to do things which are accessible, inclusive and promote kindness &#8211; to our community, to our classmates and to ourselves.&nbsp; The theme started on Friday and will continue through next week with some of the highlights being listed below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On-going:&nbsp; Collections of items for the Incharth food appeal for Tillydrone Flat<\/li>\n<li>Friday 14th :&nbsp; Christmas jumper\/festive colours day in aid of Save the Children (this raised over \u00a3560 for the charity)<\/li>\n<li>During the week \u2013 Christmas movies some lunchtime in the Hall<\/li>\n<li>Tuesday 18<sup>th<\/sup> December \u2013 Christmas concert<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday 19<sup>th<\/sup> December \u2013 S1 LEOs fundraiser<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday 19<sup>th<\/sup> December \u2013 Turkey lunches in the canteen<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday 19<sup>th<\/sup> December \u2013 Albyn HT assembly (form time)<\/li>\n<li>Thursday 20<sup>th<\/sup> December \u2013 Carden\/Holburn HT assembly (form time)<\/li>\n<li>Friday 21<sup>st<\/sup> December \u2013 Waverly\/Victoria HT assembly (form time)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we head towards the Christmas holidays we will try to strike a balance between keeping the focus on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parents","category-weekly-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.org\/new\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}