Author: Mrs Davidson

Today P1, P2 and P3 had visitors from the farming world to talk about the jobs that they do and the skills they need for their work.

We had Mr Weir who sells tractors to farmers.  He brought a tractor for us to look at and we were amazed to find out the tractor cost £77,000 and has 16 lights on it!

Mr Cameron, a vet showed us different equipment he uses when dealing with sick animals.  He brought along a dog (just a cuddly one!) and showed us pictures of x-rays.  We also saw photos of animals in the vets surgery.

Mrs Nelson is a dairy farmer she talked to us about the journey milk takes from farm to fridge.  We talked about how many different things we eat daily which  are made from milk – chocolate and ice-cream being two of our favourites!

It was super to find out about different aspects of each job and by the end we had lots of people wanting to be farmers and vets in the future (we still had a few footballers too though!)

Today in Primary 1 we were talking about signs and information in our environment.  We talked about how this is important  to give people information on where to go and what to do and most importantly to keep people safe.  We then went on a hunt around our school to see what information we could see displayed.  There were a great variety of signs and info.  We photographed some to show you.

 

Today our  Sport Committee met to discuss our plan for the year ahead.  We decided to focus on celebrating sporting success at assemblies, encouraging girls to try different sports and getting the opinions of our Pupil Council about sports opportunities within our school.  Our Committee members are Tomas, Sophie, Nicole and Shannon.  If you have any questions about sport in St Andrew’s please feel free to ask our Committee.

In Primary 1 we have been thinking about what we will try and do a little more of  during 2018.  This included trying to do more exercise, eating more fruit and vegetables and helping tidy our rooms and do the dishes!  We are going to try our best (fingers crossed!)

We have put our ideas on display outside our classroom. If you are passing please have a look.

Today Primary 1,2 and 3 had a great time at their Christmas Party.  They played a number of games had snack and even had a special visit from Santa!

As I am sure you’d agree from our photos, the children all looked fantastic in their Christmas outfits.

 

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Today has been a day of celebrations in our school for St Andrew’s Day.  This is a very important day for Scotland but also for our school as St Andrew is our Patron Saint.

We were very lucky to have former pupil Lauren come to pipe us in to school this morning.  We then started the day with a short service celebrating the life of St Andrew with Father Gerald.

Next it was time to split in to groups to take part in a variety of activities.  We could choose from:

Baking, Football, Woodlands, K’nex, Clay Models, Disco, Fun Science, Arts & Crafts, Games Room and Team Games.

Here are some of our thoughts on the day:

“It was such great fun!” Georgia        I loved Fun Science.” Neve         “Football was great!” Brigita

“This is the best day at school!” Maeve

Congratulations to  Ellie who recently competed in a Highland Dance Competition in Euro Disney Paris.  You can see from the photo below that she was very successful.  Well done Ellie!

This week our Nursery and Primary 1 children got together to welcome an author to our school.  Hazel Stevens the author of Poppy Wants to Bake a Cake came to visit us.  This was a great opportunity for us to ask questions about the book including finding out about the characters and setting and how an author gets the ideas for the story.

The children took part in 4 activities linked to the book including using pastels to create masks, designing rag dolls and icing their own tasty cake! The final group got to listen to the author read her story and ask all their super questions.

We would like to thank Mrs Stevens for her visit and hope to have more authors visit us in the future.

Here are a few photographs of our afternoon:

On Friday we held a table top sale in our school.   It was lovely to see so many stall holders selling such a variety of goods.  Visitors enjoyed looking around, buying and having a chance for a catch up over a coffee and some delicious cake.

A special thank you to stall holders and all those who supported this event.  A brilliant £400 was raised which will be put towards resources for our children.