Author: Mrs Davidson

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!

This year we have been very lucky to have help with our PE from S6 St Joseph’s College pupil Adam Kirk.  Adam is hoping to pursue a career in PE and has been getting experience in this area in several of our classes.  Today was Adam’s last day with us as he now goes off to concentrate on his studies.  We wish him good luck in the future!  Jack handed over a little Easter gift to show our appreciation.

This term Primary 1 have sports students from Dumfries and Galloway College in to do  activities.  The children are really enjoying this opportunity.

Primary 7 pupil Shannon had great success at a recent table tennis competition.  Shannon came home with the Scottish Senior Schools Under 14 Girls Consolation Gold Medal.  Well done Shannon!

St Andrew’s had success in the Nithsdale Badminton Competition this weekend, with Tomas winning for P6 boys and Rokas finishing 3rd.  Luca also finished in 4th place for P7 boys.   Well done to all who took part.

This week 19 children took part in the first of our 4 jog club sessions.  It was an early start as we left the school at 8.30am returning just in time for the start of the school day.  We headed down to the Dock Park and completed a circuit of the park and some relays.  It was great fun and thankfully the weather was kind to us.  Even the adults helping survived the experience without any injuries!!

This week we have been looking at the book by Michael Rosen called “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt.’  We loved doing activities relating to this book and we all worked together to create a wall display outside our classroom.  We discovered this story had lots of brilliant describing words which we are going to try to use in our writing.

Finally today we went on a bear hunt of our own in the woods.  You can see some of the photos of the bears we found below:

Today in Primary 1 we welcomed our grown ups in to class so we could share our learning.   The children decided to sing the Scottish song ‘Three Craws’ and recite the poem ‘Mr Ted’, both of which they had performed at a recent Scottish Assembly.

The adults then had some work to do with the children as they went round 3 activities.  One group were busy tasting different foods like lemon, crisps and marshmallows and deciding on describing words for these. Another group were creating a pictogram of the classes favourite ice-cream flavours.  The final group were making tasty fruit and veg kebabs.

We then finished off by singing, ‘If I was a Butterfly’ and thanking our visitors for all their hard work!

Over recent weeks all our classes and our nursery have been studying all things Scottish, including looking at the Scots language, music and dance.  On Friday we joined together as a school to celebrate and share our learning.

It was lovely to see and hear the variety of songs, poems and dances, what a talented bunch! The children enjoyed the opportunity to share this with their peers.  Here are a variety of photos showing our performances.

Primary 1 have been very creative when building 3d models of buildings in our local community.  We linked our work on shape with our topic on Business and The world of Work.   Primary 2 and 3 came in to have a look at our creations and they were very impressed by the way we could answer questions about the types of jobs involved in our business and name the 3d junk shapes we used to create them.