Ardeer Thistle 2015's
2024-09-05 • No comments • • Three Towns
Our team would love to take part in several festivals across the summer break, allowing the children to experience tournament football and being awarded medals. These cost £90 per team, so with the number we have we can often register 2 teams for 7 aside games. For 3 tournaments this would cost £540.
The fee to hire the all weather floodlit pitches costs £85 per week now, so to keep the weekly costs the same for parents and not having to increase fees, the remaining £460 would go towards pitch hire and spare equipment such as bibs, cones, balls.
ACE- Admin Craft Enterprise
2024-09-12 • No comments • • Three Towns
our prodject is primarilly to help pupils learn new skills and develop leadership skills before they leave school and have oppertunitys to work with other pupils as a team.
this is to spread the cost between materials,manudfacturing process and also products. this money is also to help with future events takeing place and to fund our community project where we build benches and mud kitches for schools,busisnesses and also a big one we completed in the last year is going round all the care homes in the three towns and donating ,flower pots , benches , memorial benches ect. we also plan do used recycled materials and waste from other projects to help the enviroment. We hope you consider our proposal thank you, ACE ( admin,enterprise,craft).
Juice Cups – 35 for 30
Keyrings - 9.71 for 30
Permanent Vinyl – 26.90 for pack of 50
Heat press vinyl – 29.99 for 33 sheets
Vinyl cutter tools – 8.99 could do with at least 3-4 of these
Small Heat press - 25.95 possibly 2
Tote bags - 8.98 for 10
Pencil/makeup bags - 12.86 for 10
Christmas baubles 30 for 9.99
Lanyards - 11.99 for 8 possibly 30 of those
Heat press mat – 8.99
Water bottles - 54.34 for 20
plastic sheets - (tilgear) 100x500 £ 23.75 each -
tshirt press -
hoodies
Tourette Scotland - West of Scotland Support Group
2024-09-12 • 3 comments • • Irvine
We are hoping to arrange sports coaching sessions for our young people at The Portal in Irvine. We are also hoping to arrange a visit to Bouncestation - a local play and activity centre. We think it is really important to promote positive physical and mental health in young people who are struggling to cope with the challenges that Tourette's bring. Tourette Syndrome is a complex neurological condition. Many of our young people suffer from social isolation; difficulties at school; judgement from others; dealing with regular health-related appointments; and various other challenges. Our group, based in Irvine, is a safe space for young people - and their families - to meet in person with other young people living with Tourette's. We offer arts and crafts, sporting games and board games at our regular meetings. The aim of our group is to have everyone feel included, supported and understood.
We are hoping to put on six sports sessions throughout the year in addition to our support meetings at Bridgegate in Irvine.
Cost to hire out Portal space and a sports coach, plus provide a healthy drink and snack to each participant - £115 per session.
Cost to take 20 participants to Bouncestation - £310
Total cost: £115 x 6 = £690
+ £310
= £1000
Sports Council Go for Gold
2024-09-20 • No comments • • Three Towns
The Sports Council will consult with pupils to see what activities they are interested in and then work with our Active Schools Coordinator to get those clubs set up. The senior pupil leaders at Auchenharvie will come and coach us. To attract more pupils to the clubs we will sign up to attend events on the Active Schools Calendar. Currently we have no budget for transport to events so if we were successful with our application we would use the money for transport to events and for equipment to support our clubs and teams. This would made our school much more active at lunch times and after schools and would make our application for Gold school sport award much stronger.
Costs:
Equipment for after school clubs £500
Travel to events £500
Multi Sports Club
2024-09-03 • No comments • • Arran
Over 70 young people from across all seven primaries on the island come together to participate on a Monday afternoon for P1-3s and a Wednesday afternoon for P4-7s at a multi-sports club, where pupils participate in a variety of sports. It’s important for youngsters to engage with peers of a similar age, which doesn't always happen . This is a chance for youngsters to build relationships from different villages, which also prepares the young people for transition into secondary school.
There are a number of costs to make this possible –
Transport costs (taxi for pupils from further afield) - £500
Equipment (balls, bibs, cones, general sporting equipment) - £500
ARDEER COMMUNITY CENTRE
2024-09-11 • No comments • • Three Towns
These cooking classes are important. statistics on poor eating habits in children or families, are only getting higher as well as obesity rates, the lack of nutritional education also means we can step in and offer guidance and first hand help for these families and kids
We will have a chef attend these sessions in our communiy cafe, we will provide all the utensils and take away food tubs and all ingrediants for these classes.
- Project Goals:
- Teach families how to cook quick and healthy meals.
- Promote healthy eating habits and awareness of nutrition.
- Encourage family bonding through shared cooking activities.
- Project Activities:
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- Demonstrations of easy, nutritious meals.
- Hands-on cooking experience for parents and children.
- Education on nutrition, meal planning, and food budgeting.
- Fun friendly environment.
Megans Space Self-Care Sunday
2024-09-11 • No comments • • North Coast
The 'self-care sunday' will be open to children and young people aged 11-26, and will be inclusive of the following activities to promote physical and mental wellbeing; therapy dogs, introduction to yoga and mindfulness, introduction to reki, havening session, art therapy, journalling and gratitude workshop. A breakdown of the costs below
- Therapy dogs £250
- introduction to yoga and milndfullness £150
- introduction to Reki £150
- Havening session £150
- arts and crafts materials £150
- refreshments £100
- hall hire £50
Night Time Soccer and Flytying
2024-09-16 • No comments • • Irvine
Night Time Soccer and Fly Tying are the choice of activities by the young people. The age range cover 8 years to 25 years old and will be split across 2 age ranges.
Soccer Training - 3 hours per session at £22.50 per hour x 2 sessions = £135 per week for an 8 week taster.
This will run over the course of a year, Fullarton HUb are providing the flood lit pitch free of charge and are seeking furthter funding to continue this beyiond the 8 week period. There will be no charge for the participants as the cost of living crisis means households have no money for leisure activities. We want this to be as inclusive as possible.
Dreghorn Primary School Show -Annie Jnr
2024-09-11 • No comments • • Irvine
Dreghorn Parent Council are very keen to enhance and develop additional opportunities and experiences for all the pupils at Dreghorn Primary.
In March 2025 the school is putting on a performance of Annie this is a fantastic opportunity for all Primary 5 -7 pupils.
There is always a buzz around school and with auditions and rehersals starting this week, it's going to be an exciting 6 months.
Through participation in Annie the children have the opportunity to develop their confidence. They will learn new skills in acting, singing, dancing, production, costume creation, make up and set design. So many options for as many children as possible to be involved in: a huge team effort.
As they learn new skills they will improve their abilities and belief in themselves, a real chance to help nurture and support the wellbeing of our children.
When asked about being part of the school show the children were bursting with enthusiasm. We were told " One of my favourite things to do is sing, it makes me feel happy" Another child said " I feel more confident in music and dancing so I am excited to show how good I can be because that doesn't always happen in class."
Reflecting on a previous show one child remembered " Matilda was so fun and made me feel a real part of the school so I want to take part in the show again."
We would like that same opportunity for lots of our children. Giving them the chance to fire up their imagination can be crucial in their development. We want to enhance their thinking, playing and learning.
The £1000 budget will help fund many aspects of the production: £250 for lighting, £250 for costumes, £250 for set design, and £250 for sound to name but a few of the costs incurred.
The children are at the heart of the production raising their voices performing to a packed audience over 2 nights. Aswell as the on stage dramatics they will also be involved in advertising and programme production and children will select guests of honour to invite to their show.
Due to the cost of living crisis many children do not have the same opportunities to attend expensive dance,drama and singing classes out with school. Our statistics show us that currently 71% of pupils in P5-7 reside within Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) levels 1-4. Therefore by supporting the show our aim is regardless of background and financial situation all pupils will have the opportunity to participate.
We want as many of our children to say
"The show is a big part of school life and its so fun" Singing and dancing help me feel happy and clear my head. I would love to have a part to build my confidence."
We really appreciate and value your assistance to help us support our stars of the show.
"My Happy Mind" Wellbeing Resources Skelmorlie Primary, Parent Council.
2024-09-12 • No comments • • North Coast
Skelmorlie Parent Council are bidding for £1000 to support the purchase of the "My Happy Mind" program and resources which will help to continue the excellent work the school currently do to support pupil health and wellbeing. The cost of the programe is approx £1500 and the School and Parent Council will use fundraising to meet the additonal costs.
The school frequently consult with children about plans for the school and ideas for developments. The children have identified that focusing on health and wellbeing would be positive for their school and that the tools and resources look like fun to use.
"We looked at different ideas to help build resilience and help when we feel anxious. We use Zones of Regulations in school and Myhappymind links to that too. We watched videos of other children talking about how Myhappymind has helped their school and we decided this would help us too."
Primary 7 pupil.
My Happy Mind is an evidence based program taught across the whole school in weekly sessions,
Meet Your Brain – Learning about how our brains work.
Celebrate – Understanding our character strengths and celebrating ourselves.
Appreciate – Developing gratitude as a habit.
Relate – Building positive relationships.
Engage – Engaging with the world.
Teaching Staff at the school will be able to use the resources to embed resillience, coping strategies and strengths based approaches into lessons across the curriculum.
“The portal looks easy to use with the lessons being designed to “pick up and go” and the resources being at hand means this will be a very manageable way of delivering Health and Wellbeing lessons.”
“Resilience is a skill we are needing to work on in our class and the techniques this programme has look to be effective in helping children with self-regulation.”
As a community we are aware of the pressures young people face,with rising levels of poverty, inequaltiy and reduced access to vital services and we are only just understanding the with the long term impact of covid restrictions on childrens development. We believe that access to the My Happy Mind Program will support children to develop the skills and resillience to cope with any challenges they face. The school is a key part of our community, and as such has the potential to embed these approaches with families and the wider community,
"The children will share sessions with parents/carers to highlight the importance of self-care and building self-esteem, resilience, and confidence. The children hope to promote this within our community with sessions for wider public at events such as the at the Nature Festival next year." Head Teacher Lynne Cathcart