Month: March 2018

This week Primary 1 and Nursery worked together on some Easter activities.  We also had a visit from two children from St Andrew’s Nursery Brooke Street.  The children iced Easter themed biscuits which all agreed were yummy! The children also got creative designing their own Easter Cards.

It was great fun and we look forward to more activities together next term.

On Wednesday the 21st of March P7 invited their parents and grandparents into class to find out about the learning they have been doing this term.  It was a super afternoon ran by the children and we were extremely happy so many people could attend.  We entertained everyone with some music from our Charanga Music scheme, the song we chose to do was Happy by Pharrell Williams.  A good choice as it was one everyone seemed to know.  We also had 4 Scottish poems to share.  After that the children ran various activities to share their learning.  We had a game of Guess Who in French as well as French animal Bingo and a colour by numbers activity.  In maths we had parents creating pie charts and calculating the decimal fraction, fraction and percentages of coloured skittles in a packet as well as timing our parents on the Strong Maths mental challenges.  Outside some P7’s were running hockey and rugby drills and games as well as organising a World Book Day treasure hunt in the forest.  It was nice to see how well the children could teach others new skills including how to play Bridge and also to weave on paper plates.  The children were glad to hear your feedback it was all really positive and we will certainly aim to improve next time – I believe a bigger space and tea, coffee and cakes would be appreciated! We will see what we can do! Thank you again and well done P7

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Primary 7 finished off their unit of work on angles with a maths challenge in the forest this week.  They were to come up with a 2D shape or 3D structure which included at least one triangle showing angles adding to 180 degrees.  They had to use 20 sticks and include each type of angle a right, straight, acute, obtuse and reflex angle. Some of the children were even able to identify some corresponding and alternate angles too.  I think we all enjoyed the task as well as some nicer weather for a change!  Back in class we are printing out our designs so that we can estimate and measure the angles we created.  Well done to Tony, Luca and Josh who make a really interesting, huge  angular frame in the trees, fabulous teamwork and also to Nicole who created a fascinating angular mobile.  Jake, Mikey and Tony were able to use a coloured cube code to show all their angles and worked extremely well together on task finishing ahead of everyone! Super work P7.

Today 10 of our P6 and P7 pupils competed in Nithsdale Primary Schools Championships. Each category had around 70 competitors and our children all performed brilliantly and we even had smiles at the end of the races.  A special congratulations goes to Leah of P7 who came in 2nd out of  the 78 runners competing in the P7 Girls category.  Well done to all involved (and we also agreed it was slightly warmer than last year!)

Twelve pupils from Primary 6 and Primary 7 travelled to St. Andrew’s Bridge Club in Glasgow to participate in a Mini Bridge competition against schools from Edinburgh, Glasgow, Ayr and Troon. All children played very well and finished 4th, 13th & 14th, a fantastic result. The children enjoyed the experience and Mr & Mrs Thomson (Loreburn Bridge Club) and Mrs Barnett were extremely proud of the way the children conducted themselves both on the bus journey and throughout the competition. Well Done everyone.

 

 

P2 enjoyed the Spring sunshine in the forest on Friday (16th March). This week we were looking for signs of living things. We used binoculars, magnifying glasses and bug catchers to explore the forest. Of course we had a little bit of time at the end to enjoy some free time.

 

On Friday 16th March, Primary 6 visited Crochmore Farm near Crocketford to learn more about the journey of milk from the farm to the supermarket. Angus Kerr was a great host and the children had a fantastic time, the highlight for most being the calving shed.

Several of our pupils have been competing in Nithsdale Active Schools cross country events over recent months.  We would like to congratulate them all on their efforts, special congratulations go to Euan who finished in 1st place in the P5 boys competition and Leah who finished 1st in the P7 girls section.  Well done to all involved.

Primary 1 would like to say a big ‘thank you’ to Primary 2 for being our computer experts this afternoon.  P1 children are learning to use their own log ins for the computers and P2 proved to be expert teachers showing us how it is done – thanks again P2!

It was lovely to have Bishop Nolan visit our school last week. He visited all classes and shared information about his life. Many pupils enjoyed trying on some of the special garments he wears and he answered some great questions from P6.