St Andrew's Primary School Blog
"A COMMUNITY OF FAITH AND LEARNING THAT VALUES EVERYONE FOR WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY BRING."
In Primary 1 this week we have been using different openers in our writing. We decided to use openers when writing a set of instructions about how to make toast and jam! Of course to do this properly we thought we better make some toast and jam first yum!
Over the last 3 weeks Primary 7 have been learning about Civil Engineering from our STEM ambassador Mrs Lauryn Steele. This week we had the grand finale which was to build an amazing full size bridge in our PE hall! The children were split into 2 teams and given important roles within the group as either deck, cable or pin workers. The team work was fantastic, as well as the learning gained about the different forces of tension and compression, as well as the different types of bridge structures. This particular bridge was a Cable Stay bridge but the children have made truss, suspension and cantilever bridges too with the K-Nex in class. They really enjoyed the challenge to build the strongest structure and it was the Arch bridge built by Harvey, Reign, Freya and Bobbi that actually held the most weight of 4kg! What a fantastic project this has been for us!
We have been really busy in class organising the bags and doing loads of other stuff.
The crafters are making pencil cases with felt and thread.
The Fundraising group is making a powerpoint for Assembly and organising fun days!
The All Rounder’s are making posters and helping groups.
The Bag Packers are counting donations – please no more pencils!! We are in need of bags and spoons.
Thanks for all the donations! And all the support!
Toby, Matthew and Bernardas.
Can we please reassure some of our families about the places they have applied for in regard to their children and their catchment school. If the primary or secondary you have applied for is your catchment school, you will not receive a letter confirming that place, but you do have a place. It is your catchment school so a letter is not necessary. Letters are only issued to those families who have applied for a school that is not their catchment school. We hope this clears things up a little.
The bag packers have been keeping track of donations. They are making sure there isn’t too many of one item coming in.
This week they have noticed we need more donations of shampoo, conditioner, shower gel, shower caps, rulers, small balls, toothpaste and spoons please.
The publicity group are making a PowerPoint explaining in more detail about the backpack project following on from their visits round the classes.
The craft group have started to make pencil cases from felt that has been donated. They have cut out the patterns and are getting ready to sew the pieces together.
The fundraising group are busy organising an event to run during school time – more details to follow next week.
Thank you to everyone who has helped and donated so far. Please keep sending in donations, particularly the items listed above.
Toby and Matthew
