Hello!
Cant believe we're half way through the expedition already! Since our last update we've been busy climbing volcanoes higher than Ben Nevis and swimming in natural hot springs to name just a few excursions!
Everyones having an absolute ball and is especially looking forward to going white water rafting and completing our next community project on Roatan island!
Kirsty Hopkinson
Los Monos (Team 2)
We are now in Honduras, after finishing our first project phase on ometepe island, Nicaragua.
Our homestay experience was amazing and we are all missing our host families. They had so little but looked us so well.
Before leaving ometepe we managed to reach the summit of volcan maderas . It was a hard trek up but we were all in good spirits. Coming down was an adventure as we got caught in an electric storm. Needless to say we are all a bit damp when we returned to the village.
Crossing the border into Honduras was an interesting experience. We got through eventually.
Honduras is beautiful, lots of rolling hills and forests. Today we are heading to Copan and tomorrow we will be exploring the ancient Mayan ruins there.
L Woolley
Team Tortuga (Team 1)
Knox Academy KWN make the headlines in the Edinburgh Evening News today... written by Laura Cummings, Education Reporter.
A HARD-HITTING documentary about knife crime produced by a group of Lothian school pupils is in line for a worldwide film prize.
Eight third-year pupils at Knox Academy in Haddington will join five other schools from across the globe at the awards ceremony of the Panasonic Kid Witness News (KWN) 2012 Global Contest, which will be held in London next month.
The teenagers’ four-minute documentary film, Think of Life Put Down the Knife, explored the issues around young people carrying knives, and saw the pupils interview Rev Cameron Mackenzie, who spent two years in jail as a young man after stabbing a rival in a gang fight.
He was later influenced by a spiritualist and eventually trained for the ministry. The former minister at the West Church in Haddington is now minister at the Tron Moredun and Gilmerton Church in Edinburgh.
He speaks about his troubled past in the film, as well as losing his younger brother to knife crime.... continued....
To read the full story online with the Evening News, and watch their documentary click here.
Minutes of the meeting of the Parent School Partnership, held on Wednesday 30 May 2012, are now available to view. These are currently a draft version to be finally approved at the next meeting.
Further details of PSP activities and previous minutes can be accessed on this website: School Info > Parent School Partnership.
The Parent School Partnership website can be accessed here.
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