Month: June 2017

We would like to wish everyone a happy and safe holiday. We have had a wonderful year here at St. Andrew’s. Our P1s have grown from newbies into confident young folk who are firmly part of the school. Similarly our P7s have grown from newbies to the idea of being the grown up ones in school to mature young people ready and eager to take on the challenges of secondary education. Time flies and we are once again saying goodbye to our P7s and getting ready to welcome our new P1s after the holidays. Our P7s are always welcome here. We challenge our P7s to step up to the mark at St. Andrew’s. It sometimes means the HT does a bit more moaning than usual. It can be tough love at times, but it is love all the same. We wish them every possible happiness and success in their individual and collective futures. (Whisper it- we actually miss them when they are gone!)

Can we remind everyone that children return to school on Monday 21st August.

Let the sun shine! Please?

We would like thank everyone who was able to support our Family Fun evening last Friday. The weather stayed dry and the hard work put in by Mel and her team was rewarded with and excellent turnout. Everyone seemed to have a good evening together. Although having everyone together is the main point of our annual Family Fun evening there is also a fund raising element to it. It is with heartfelt thanks to you all that we are able to announce that the total from Family Fun now stands at £1983:03. All of this money goes towards future events and resources for your children here at school, all of which is approved through the Parent Council.

 

On Tuesday the 20th June P7 joined with St Ninian’s Primary School to perform with the Scottish Opera.  Mrs Duff and the class teachers of P5, 6 and 7 at St Andrew’s have been preparing for this amazing day by learning songs in advance.  The Scottish Opera team are amazingly talented and work extremely hard to put together the show in one morning.  The children found the experience great fun and very rewarding.  They looked superb in the costumes for the final performance.  Here is just a little taster of how well they all did!

On Tuesday this week Primary 1 went on a trip to Mabie Farm Park.  We had a super time and the weather was great.   There is a new really fast slide which we loved going on.  The pet handling and straw barn were also very popular.  Mrs Gilligan even got a lesson on how to somersault on the trampolines!  We had a brilliant day and were all tired out on our return (especially the grown ups!)

On Friday the 16th June,  Mrs Jamieson from The Royal Highland Educational Trust (RHET) came to visit P3 about their Farm and Food topic. She had already organised for us to visit a beef farm and on Friday she brought in samples of various crops and taught us more about dairy production. All our wee farmers in training ground up wheat seeds to produce flour and we even worked in teams to turn milk into butter.

We ate the delicious butter we had make with other healthy Scottish produce and had a fantastic morning. By visiting the farm and by preparing the butter the children are becoming more aware of the journeys that food makes from source to consumer.

 

 

Today Primary 1 went out to our woodland area to use our measuring skills.  Firstly, we all found a stick and arranged them from longest to shortest.  Then we chose a number of different things in the woods to measure using our hand spans and feet.  Here are some photos of us busy at work:

On Wednesday 31st May, P6 enjoyed a sunny, fun filled day at Blair Drummond. After the bus tour of the safari park, the children made the most of their day, enjoying boat trips to chimpanzee island, the zip wire and pedal boats as well as a brilliant sea lion show.

 

 

 

 

On Thursday 8th June P5-7 participated in a World of Work afternoon. 16 presenters gave up their time to come along and talk to the children about their jobs. It was a very informative afternoon for the children and they asked lots of interesting and pertinent questions. Feedback given by the presenters at the end of the afternoon was very positive and, in particular, they commented on the courteous, well mannered and attentive behaviour of the children. We are grateful to all of the adults for giving up their time, and hope you will return again.

This morning the Queen of the South elect visited our school with her attendants and the Cornet and the Cornet’s Lass.  It was especially exciting for us this year as the Queen, Molly Hyslop, is a former pupil of St Andrew’s.  It was lovely to see them and the horses.   Our own school attendant Emilia, presented Molly with a gift from the school.   We wish them all, especially Molly and Emilia, the best of luck on Saturday and hope the sun shines!

This term in St Andrew’s all classes have been studying Poetry.  We decided to celebrate this by displaying some of our work in the hall for all classes to see.  There are  lovely examples of the children using their senses and descriptive phrases to create some beautiful images for the reader.