Month: November 2017

Today has been a day of celebrations in our school for St Andrew’s Day.  This is a very important day for Scotland but also for our school as St Andrew is our Patron Saint.

We were very lucky to have former pupil Lauren come to pipe us in to school this morning.  We then started the day with a short service celebrating the life of St Andrew with Father Gerald.

Next it was time to split in to groups to take part in a variety of activities.  We could choose from:

Baking, Football, Woodlands, K’nex, Clay Models, Disco, Fun Science, Arts & Crafts, Games Room and Team Games.

Here are some of our thoughts on the day:

“It was such great fun!” Georgia        I loved Fun Science.” Neve         “Football was great!” Brigita

“This is the best day at school!” Maeve

WOW, WOW,WOW!!! So impressed with the pleasant, polite shopkeepers in P5, who knew all about their products, and served their customers with a smile!

Thank you also to the P6 and P7 classes for their generosity, one customer’s feedback was “I give the Enterprise Afternoon 29 stars, one for every child in the class!”

Many thanks again for your support, practical real life activities like this really help to underline the learning we have been doing in class about money, how to give correct change, the value of money and profit and loss…plus the fact that the children had fun!

Thank you to our resident paparazzi Thomas and C-Jay, for taking such great photos 🙂

 

P2 invited people from home to come in to our classroom to see how we learn in P2. We had lots of things to tell them about our learning and then we let them do some of the activities we do. Some of the things we were showing them were:

draw a picture on 2simple, use magnetic letters to write tricky words, sort the recycling items into the correct bins, make a 2D shape picture, make a mask of a wild animal from the book Mr Tiger Goes Wild and some maths games.

The children had a super time and it was good to see them excited about their work and learning.

Congratulations to  Ellie who recently competed in a Highland Dance Competition in Euro Disney Paris.  You can see from the photo below that she was very successful.  Well done Ellie!

P1 had a fantastic morning visiting all the different departments in Tesco Peel Centre Superstore last week.

We visited the bakery first to see how the bread was made.

The baker showed us the big mixing machine used to make the dough. We even got to try some of the different breads he makes, and the doughnuts!

Some of us weren’t too keen on the chilli bread, but we all agreed we liked the doughnuts!

                

Next we met the fishmonger who showed us all the different fish and told us about how to keep them fresh.

      

After that we visited the fruit and vegetable aisle. We listened carefully to hear where all the fruit and veg was grown and how far it had travelled to reach the shop.

     

We looked in the big chiller that keeps the food fresh.

Finally we all had a ‘go’ on the checkout, to find out how what that job would be like.

         

It was great fun and we want to say a huge THANK YOU to Robyn at Tesco for showing us about.

After many weeks of hard work P7 loaded 82 shoeboxes into the vans to be taken to the Carlisle collection depot ready to be posted out to Eastern Europe.  There was a great article in the Standard publicising the hard work of all the school, parents and parishioners and thanking everyone for their efforts.  P7 did a great job of this enterprise and thoroughly enjoyed the experience.  We could barely get all the boxes in the van!

    

As part of our PE we have been having a go at Floorball, this is through Active Schools. Floorball is like Ice Hockey (without the ice) and Coach Joey from the Solway Sharks Ice Hockey Team has been taking the sessions. We have be learning hoe to hold the sick properly and play safely as well as playing as part of a team.

This week our Nursery and Primary 1 children got together to welcome an author to our school.  Hazel Stevens the author of Poppy Wants to Bake a Cake came to visit us.  This was a great opportunity for us to ask questions about the book including finding out about the characters and setting and how an author gets the ideas for the story.

The children took part in 4 activities linked to the book including using pastels to create masks, designing rag dolls and icing their own tasty cake! The final group got to listen to the author read her story and ask all their super questions.

We would like to thank Mrs Stevens for her visit and hope to have more authors visit us in the future.

Here are a few photographs of our afternoon:

As primary 7 have been reading War Horse and learning about WW1 we decided to go on a trip to The Devil’s Porridge Museum in Eastriggs on Wednesday.  The children enjoyed the opportunity to learn about the munitions factory, the life of the Gretna Girls and conditions in the trenches from the excellent volunteer speakers.

  

They also had an interesting time handling artefacts such as the Brodie helmet, the shell and bullet cases, a bayonet and many more objects.  There was time to dress up in uniform and take a look around the museum too before heading back to school.  It was a super day learning about our local history and we must thank all the parent helpers who came along too.

  

 

        

It was a very busy, spooky week for P7 preparing Halloween discos for the whole school.  They have been baking, making games up, preparing music, dressing up and creating fun for their peers all in the effort to raise lots of money for their Pope Francis project, Operation Christmas Child (shoebox appeal.)

     

I am so proud of their efforts and teamwork.  It’s been hard work but also a lot of fun for everyone! Thank you very much to everyone for your donations!

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