Month: October 2018

A huge thank you to everyone who attended the concert at St Andrew’s Parish and to the many people who donated clothing, including school uniforms for the children and their families/peers back home.  It was an exhilarating evening, the children sang with so much passion and love for each other and for those supporting them.  An incredible 54 suitcases of clothes were collected for them overall whilst on tour and 16 of those where from our school alone!  Well done also to P7 who did a great job with the publicity campaign.  It was fabulous to be on Border news and WestSound radio.  Lucy, George, Lewis and Niamh spoke so well.  Hopefully some people may consider sponsoring a child (only £20 a year) or being a host family when they come next time.

Thank you once again.

Today in P4, the children were set an Energy Challenge!  They had to use their imaginations and develop their problem solving and team working skills, to build a Solar Powered boat, an air powered car, design and build their own 3D wind turbine using k’nex, and test a hydro turbine to see if it could power a light! All on the last day of school too!!

Huge thanks to Mr Earle, Mr Sharp, Mr Orr and Mr Valentine, really appreciate you help!  Continue reading “P4 Energy Challenge!!”

This is a update on our work with the Singing Children Of Africa.

By Sam

We’ve been doing a lot of work getting donations of clothes and have been going round some charity shops.

 

 

We are trying to get some things into the newspapers, Mrs McIntyre was on West Sound speaking about our project and we have spoken to Border TV who are getting back to us. We had  a bake sale which raised £94.51. Some Parents have offered their sewing skills to turn the trousers into shorts for the children in Africa.

 

There’s a board outside with info on about what  we are doing and a countdown to the  concerts and a performance you’ll never forget.

 

Pictures by Jason

        

 

This week the children in P7 experienced a Chinese cookery lesson (as part of their learning about China)with Mrs Chalk and Mrs Farrell from St Josephs Home Economic Department.  They followed instructions carefully and had a super time learning how to use cooking equipment, stir fry vegetable, roll filo pastry and importantly clean up after themselves! I was really impressed at how well they worked with their partners and how effectively they used their time.  The finished results looked and tasted so good.  Maya took hers home for tea whilst Tyra couldn’t wait and was quick to tell us it was the best thing she had ever tasted! We as always are very appreciative to the Secondary for sharing their facilities and expertise with us as well as providing really good learning experiences and transition work for our pupils. Here are a few photos of a very successful afternoon.

I can’t thank say thank you enough to Fiona from RHET and Mrs Kirkwood, for bringing their three beautiful piglets to visit my P4 class.
The children have been enjoying reading the class novel, Charlotte’s Web, and were beyond excited when they heard they would have the chance to meet some ‘real life’ Wilburs!”

I think it’s opportunities like these that really bring literacy to life for the children.  They have been enjoying reading about Wilbur’s life on the farm, and writing character descriptions about him, however, after meeting with the piglets today, they produced some terrific writing describing how “his snout felt as smooth as pebble” , and that piglets make ‘perfect playground pals’.

Many thanks again!

This week in Primary 1 we have been learning all about keeping safe near the roads.  As part of this we were looking at  the different traffic that passed by our busy school.  We carried out a survey to count all the different types; we saw cars, buses, motor cycles and vans.