Auchterhouse Primary School

This morning at 11am, P4-7 commemorated Remembrance Day with a short reflection and silence at our War Memorial. Our P7 read 'In Flanders Field' and we laid wreaths on behalf of the school and the Community Council.

We will remember them. #4capacities #UNCRC Article 13,14,29 pic.twitter.com/fzSnflMzts

— Auchterhouse Primary (@AuchterhousePS) November 11, 2024

Today, P3-7 are looking at the #weeHIGIOURS statements for Learning+Teaching and evaluating them into categories of how strongly we agree and disagree. This informs staff and management to make our school EVEN BETTER! #pupilvoice #teamAuchterhouse#4Capacities pic.twitter.com/fRaO2y1F8S

— Auchterhouse Primary (@AuchterhousePS) September 6, 2024

The pupils presented a cheque to Joyce and Kathleen today for the charity @childrensongea for £444.59 which has been collected throughout the year through donations from community cafes and bake sales. Thank you Team Auchterhouse! #uncrc#article4#MakingRightsReal pic.twitter.com/aDDlS9hVH7

— Auchterhouse Primary (@AuchterhousePS) June 26, 2024

In June 2024 we took part in an online accreditation to receive our Digital Schools Award. Through discussion with our learners and also viewing our evidence they could see that digital skills truly embedded into our learning.

Well done everyone!

Our nursery have been selected as one of the winners of the One Planet Picnic Pocket Garden design competition! The competition is run by Keep Scotland Beautiful in partnership with the Garden for Life Forum, and this year, Scottish Book Trust have joined them in celebration of the 2022 Year of Stories.

The challenge was to design a miniature garden that uses edible plants, plants that attract wildlife, and to reuse something which would otherwise have been thrown away.

The themes were the Year of Stories, One Planet Picnic and Wildlife Gardening so we had to tell a story through our Pocket Garden. The story we chose to tell was ‘Bee – Nature’s tiny miracle’ by Patricia Hegarty and  Britta Teckentrup. The bee travelled through beautifully coloured gardens, woodlands alongside other animals and with its bee friends, sharing pollen.  This predominately visual story was communicated with all the children in our setting, sparking curiosity and generating ideas.

As you can imagine, we are thrilled to have been chosen and are now looking forward to building our design. The garden will be around the size of a wooden palette and will be photographed or filmed to feature in an online showcase for a public vote on the Keep Scotland Beautiful website between 8 June – 20 June.

We’ll keep you updated on our progress and a reminder of when you can go and vote!

Since we have posted the blog last we have been quite busy. 

 This week, teachers from Monikie and Newbigging Primary came to both watch our presentation we did for the Head Teachers meeting and see how rights are used in our school and our learning. All students were involved by not just doing the presentation but also answering their questions. It felt good to share all the things we learnt about to the other teachers. 

During the previous month we have had Covid hit the school. At one point we had only 8 pupils in our class It was strange as we were more used to having a bigger class. 

We have gotten new books for the class. Mrs. Clark picked Scottish stories, Scottish Authors, and stories about different countries. We are all excited about the new books for our book talk. 

We have had another visitor called Colin. He was from the Sidlaw Path Network, he taught us what to bring for a long walk or a walk up a hill. He wanted us to go on a walk and try to find everything good in the nature. All of us enjoyed learning about walks. 

We have a new right of the month. This month is different because we have 2 different rights. These rights are number 22 Refugee Children and 38 Protection In War because of the situation in Ukraine.