Month: September 2018

Today it was time for more gymnastics fun with Mr Sharp.  We had a great time experimenting with all the equipment and trying out our balances, turns, climbing and rolls.  Next week will be our last gymnastics lesson in this block and Mr Sharp has promised us we can get the equipment out again – we can’t wait!

Hi this is a report from Sam and Jason all about our class project for Pope Francis!

Educate the KIds are a charity  based on supporting poorer children in the world in gaining an education. The Singing Children of Africa is just one of their many projects.  Their work is FANTASTIC they’ve  already built a private school, an orphanage, a kinder garden and are working on building high school but to go to high school at the moment you need to sponsor a child to go to high school .

      We  had a visit from Mrs Crawford. She works very closely with the charity and has met some of the children in Africa .

We are working on  publicity and trying to get some donations of school clothes and some loose change with collection boxes at the front of the school.    PS look out for further info.

P4 and P5 enjoyed a fun filled afternoon at Park Farm last Friday, as they applied some of rugby skills they have been learning during a mini rugby festival. After a week where the weather put a stop to many outdoor activities, it was great to see the children outside having fun! Big thanks to Ryan for being photographer  for the afternoon!

P3 had a fantastic morning on Friday visiting Mr Purdie’s Dairy Farm at New Abbey. This followed on from an informative talk that he had given in class on Thursday. We toured the farm first and Mr Purdie and his daughter Elspeth discussed land use on the farm and the beautiful surrounding area. We even saw some fishermen hoping to catch some trout for their tea on Lock Kinder! We then had a look at some of the dairy herd and were lucky enough to see some new baby calves just born that morning. The milking parlour was our next stop and Mr Purdie explained how the milking equipment worked and how often the herd are milked. Our visit ended with all our delighted P3’s feeding some calves with big bottles of milk. The children learned a lot from this visit and will be able make comparisons soon when we visit a Beef farm next. 

We are delighted to announce that our school has been awarded the Gold School Sport Scotland Award.  As noted by Sport Scotland:

We had a rather wet start to our first Running Club outing for this session but this did not put the 19 children off who braved the conditions and the early start!  After our warm up we headed down to the Dock Park where we did some circuits and relays before heading back just in time for the morning bell.

Today we were using the netbooks to draw someone who helps keep us safe.  We found using the mouse pad quite tricky at first but we were getting pretty good by the end of our session.  We will keep practising!

P7 enjoying using the apparatus and creating sequences of moves in PE this week.

P2 went to the forest to order and form numbers correctly.

We would like to introduce this year’s House Captains and Vice Captains.  We are  sure they are going to do a great job and will be super role models for our younger children.  They are looking forward to representing our school and  helping organise events throughout the year.