A Marathon Effort to bring Burmese Teachers to Scotland

Miss Vacher, Mr Stobie, Miss Campbell, Ms Laing and 7 Campie folk worked really hard on Marathon Day to raise the extra money we need to bring the Burmese teachers over to Scotland in September. 4 Campie teachers ran the Marathon in a relay and the children sponsored them £412.92......WOW!

Then 11 Forthview and Campie folk worked hard as a RACE CREW all day. We managed the relay changeover at Seton Sands and we were paid £165 for that.

So all in all £577.92 raised from our Marathon efforts.

Then Campie P6 and P7 had one of the famous Campie Cake Sales on Friday and they raised £191.

Putting that with our Kilts N Longyis ceilidh and some Campie chidren having sales outside their houses, tat brings our total for the Burmese Teacher Fund to £1727. That pays for 2 Burmese passports! And a bit left over for visas, travel to get visas and passports. We still have 2 cake sales to go, Spree books to sell and a Sponsored HOUSE ARREST to go.

Thanks to all the Forthview, Campie and Pirniehall folk making this possible.

Forthview and Campie work together at Edinburgh Marathon

Today, a team of Forthview and Campie teachers, friends and parents joined forces to work as Relay Changeover Team 3 so that we could make some money towards helping our Burmese teachers come over to Scotland in September 2010. The workers raised £165. We guided runners, matched up relay runners, picked up discarded water bottles, lugged tons of water and juice as a chain gang and dismantled fences. Hard work but at the end we collapsed into Ms Laing's garden (aka The Burmese Embassy in Port Seton) with ice lollies and cold drinks. Well done team!

4 Campie teachers were sponsored to run as a relay team and the money is going to THe Burmese Teachers' Fund so we probably raised £500 today altogether. Awesome.

Pirniehall, Forthview and Campie Schools are trying to raise extra funds to support bringing our Burmese teachers over in September.
We are expecting Pho Cho and Nee Shar can come to Pirniehall.
We are expecting Bobo to come to Forthview.
We are expecting Say Heh to come to Campie.

Their passports and visas cost more than Global Schools Partnerships can provide. We had a ceilidh and raised £700. Many of you came to that. Thank you. But we need to do more so we have embarked on a fundraising drive and believe we will get all we need by the time we go there in the summer.

We are making a RACE CREW TEAM at the Marathon to make another £200ish. We are short of 5 members. Can you help? We’re covering the 3rd relay changeover so it’s at Port Seton. You have to be over 18 and free between 9 and 3.30pm.

Email Ms Laing on slaing@campie.elcschool.org.uk if you are free.

Kilts n Longyis Ceilidh March 2010

On Friday 5 March, the teachers who have travelled to the Thai Burma border over the last few years gathered with old and new friends of the Burmese people to celebrate the Scotland-Burma link at St James Church, Leith Links, Edinburgh.

We enjoyed Burmese and Scottish food and Scottish dancing. Our Burmese friends present were too shy to dance for us! Maybe when our Burmese teachers come to Scotland, we can have Burmese dance at our ceilidh? And that's why we were having this ceilidh, to raise money to pay for the passports and visas, our Burmese teachers have to get, at great personal cost, to travel to Scotland.

A huge thank to everyone who cooked, helped and supported the event. We raised £700. Wow!

The Return of the Kilts n' Longyis Ceilidh

On 5 March 2010, a group of Forthview/Pirniehall/Campie teachers are holding a fundraising ceilidh at St James Church, John's Place, Leith Links between 7.30 and 10.30pm. We are raising money to support our Burmese teacher friends in Hle Bee/Say Ta Nar/CDC schools as they try to get passports and visas to visit us in Scotland. It's going to be a very good laugh with lovely Burmese and Scottish food. The teachers that visited the Thai-Burma border this year will each say a wee bit about their experience. Prices are Adults £8, Concession £5, Children free (but bring your own bottle). You can buy tickets on the door. Hope to see you there.

Kind Kids create OUR BURMA BOOK

On Friday 13 November 2009, the children from Balgreen, Forthview, Pirniehall, St Mary's Leith and Tollcross Primary Schools who worked with 3 Burmese refugee schools to produce OUR BURMA BOOK, received a Kind Kids award. The award was presented by Edinburgh's Lady Provost and was for the children's kindness in telling the story of the Burmese people through their book and exhibitions. Well done, everyone. (Sorry it's such a poor photo. If anyone there has a better one, send it in!)

Run for Burma

Fortunately, Mrs Jenkinson and Ms Vacher were out at the race to capture all the highlights! Well done, Mr Wright and Mrs Thomson - we both agreed we could not have done it and that you both did really well...

though, personally I was a bit disappointed Mr Wright

decided not to run in his longyi as did some of the other runners!

This is the front of the 200 or so runners just been given the off!

Here's Mr Wright approaching the finish line looking remarkably fresh!

Closely followed by Mrs Thomson!

"Can I get ma cuppa tea now then?"

If I had been in a photo at the end of this race, I'd have been PURPLE!

Inspiring!