Kinlochleven school pupils get ready to welcome refugees

KINLOCHLEVEN Primary School pupils are getting ready to welcome children from the Syrian refugee families coming to live in the village this spring.

Children from the school’s nursery have made welcome banners and primary one, two and three pupils have decorated gift bags which will contain drawing and art materials, toys and books.

Kinlochleven Primary School head teacher Heather Thomson thanked Liza Heriot and Kate McDade who work in the nursery for all their extra work preparing the banners.

Everyone at the school, which was named a Rights Respecting School last June, has been learning about life as a refugee child through assemblies and global citizenship work. Ms Thomson told The

Oban Times: ‘Everyone has been working very hard and are very excited to welcome the children and families to our school when they arrive.’

Four Syrian families are coming to Kinlochleven as part of the Highland Council’s commitment to house 25 to 30 Syrian refugee families before 2020.

Children from Kinlochleven Primary School and nursery have been making banners to give to the Syrian refugee families arriving in the village this spring.