Wee Pans or Wee Panners… you decide!

Please send in your response by Wednesday, the Pupil Council are desperate to count your votes. Thank you. Results on Thursday. Thank you to all the adults who have now signed up for email alerts on the right hand side of the page, we’re up to 12 subscribers now. :)

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About Sheila Laing

Having lived and worked in West Pilton, Edinburgh for 30 years, I am now really happy to be living in Port Seton and Headteacher of Prestonpans Infant School. What excites me about working in schools is the opportunity to nurture children, families and communities to learn and to celebrate life and learning. Since 2005, I have been inspired by the community of Burmese refugees in Mae Sot, Thailand, who struggle against incredible odds to give the best education possible to their children. I've been honoured to spend time with them each summer and pray the changes in Burma will give freedom to her people.

10 thoughts on “Wee Pans or Wee Panners… you decide!

  1. why not just keep the website you have at the moment? Personally I find the two addresses given to choose from very stereotypical of Prestonpans. People should call it Prestonpans not “the pans”. I would like the option of keeping the address the same, if not it is a very unfair vote.

  2. If I understand correctly, Weepanners.org (or any other name) would be an *additional* address rather than a *new* address. It would simply re-direct to the edubuzz.org/prestonpansinfant site and existing bookmarks would still work.
    (I realise that the earlier comment was in regard to stereotyping, but thought some clarification was needed).

  3. Hi, as Jo has already mentioned the new name will be in addition to the edubuzz name and will take you to the current website.
    I personally prefer the “weepanners” name and as a panner (a proud one at that!) I see nothing derogatory in using that name – infact if you are up on your local history you should know where the name originates from. 
    Another advantage of having an easy to remember short name is that it could be linked to the parent councils Facebook page, making that page easier to find.

  4. I accept all your comments, but it is a highly unfair vote if you do not include the address at the moment because people that do not want it to change do not have the opportunity to say. The UK is a democracy and we should be given all choices available.

  5. LOOK at the comments!!!! The website address is NOT changing!!!! It is simply an additional, easy to remember address which goes to the same website. Obviously debate is good and everyone has the right to express their point of view but at least have the decency to put your name to it!

  6. What a healthy debate. Thank you all for your contributions. The children were actually able to vote in class before the adults got a chance. Very few of them wanted to keep only the current address, which is http://www.edubuzz.org/prestonpansinfant. However, this address will remain as our address. We are simply going to adopt another name which is easier for children (and visitors) to type in and find. The Pupil Council will count all the votes tomorrow and we’ll announce it at the Nativity. Keep commenting. :)

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