Month: November 2019

A group of Primary 4 and Primary 7 children have been working hard over several lunch times in recent weeks on a dance routine for a Dance Festival.  Hayley Powell from Active Schools has been in to help and advise but the majority of the routine came from the children’s own ideas.

Yesterday 17 children went to The Bridge to perform their routine, along with 3 other schools.  The children did a great job and always had big smiles on their faces (even when one of our team lost their shoe mid routine!)

We were awarded certificates for Best Team Spirit and Most Unique Dance Routine.  Everyone really enjoyed the experience and we look forward to participating again next year.

On Friday Primary 3 children held their first ‘Soup Kitchen’. They used some vegetables from the school garden to make lentil and leek and potato soup.  The children also baked some delicious bread.

At the end of the school day they set up a stall at the gate so parents and friends could enjoy a cup of soup to warm them up on such a cold day!

 

On Wednesday 20th November, Primary 1 & 2 welcomed their families in school to see the hard work they have been doing since the start of the school year. Back in August, the children received a letter from a friendly dragon who needed their help to rebuild Fairyland after it had been lost. The children have been working hard to grow beanstalks, build castles, look after the 3 Bears house and the gingerbread house as well as writing letters to the dragon and reading lots of fairy tales. The result of all their hard work was their classrooms being transformed in to Fairyland! As you can see from the photographs, children and adults alike had great fun reading books, sharing work, making sweetie houses and decorating gingerbread people as well as building castles and making friends for our friendly dragon.  All the teachers are extremely proud of how hard the children have been working.

 

Everyone was up bright and early for jog club this morning.  The cold, frosty weather did not put us off!  We wrapped up warm and headed down to the Dock Park and even made it to the Millennium Bridge.  Everyone now feels they are able to jog for slightly longer each week as our fitness levels increase.  Fingers crossed for another dry morning next week!

This term we are working on our food preparation skills by making healthy foods to share with our families.  Each Friday afternoon groups have been choosing healthy toppings for pizzas, then preparing and cooking these to take home.  The children have agreed these have been a really yummy treat!

 

We are just back from our first morning jog club of the session.  12 pupils headed down to the Dock Park to start their day with a warm up, timed jog and some relay races.  We then headed back to school for a stretch before a quick change and ready for the day to start!  Have a look at our smiley faces after our healthy start to the day:

 

P6 gave our P3 and P4 pupils a treat yesterday when they shared  the spooky stories they had created with them. All the stories were different and had spooky aspects, but the P6 pupils knew who their target audience was, so did not make them too scary. The P6s had also created comprehension questions to check their audience members were listening well and the P3s and P4s showed excellent listening skills! Finally the younger children filled in feedback sheets for the P6s and their responses were very positive about the quality of the P6 work and how it was delivered.

Well done P6 on all your hard work!