Award cash boost for kids

THE efforts of a group of Findochty Primary senior students has handed the whole school a four-figure boost. Six P7s – Murray Goodall, Abbie Morrison, Kyle Holland, Scott Slater, Layla Calder and Millie Hunkin – had already been hailed for landing the Abernethy Merit Award after they organised a fund-raising lunch with parents at the school. The young entrepreneurs were competing in the Abernethy Enterprise Challenge for Schools. On hand last Monday were Abernethy Trust CEO Phil Simpson and fund-raising officer Ruth Hutchison to present a cheque for £1000, a sum Findochty head teacher Dawn Thomson said would benefit the whole school. She told the Advertiser: “We’re delighted to get this award, everyone’s so proud of the group. “We’re looking at going down the technology route with the money and buying iPads for the children so they can use them to access outdoor learning in a number of different ways. For example, this could be using them to take pictures or looking up information. “The whole school will benefit from this and it will enhance learning for everybody.” The Abernethy cheque is set to join a further two to the tune of £1000 each which were won at the recent Buckie Young People decide participatory budgeting event. Two groups from the school won the cash for their projects, the first seeking to look at the importance of play while the other will be examining lonelinessbusting involving developing links
with the older members of the local community. Mrs Thomson added: “The hard work now begins of deciding how best to spend the money.” Also in the money were Cullen Primary , who clinched the Young Entrepreneurs Award for raising the most money – £398.60 – from their event. Up to 30 pupils can now look forward to a non-residential activity day at Abernethy, Nethybridge