Author: Mrs Davidson

This morning the Queen of the South elect visited our school with her attendants and the Cornet and the Cornet’s Lass.  It was especially exciting for us this year as the Queen, Molly Hyslop, is a former pupil of St Andrew’s.  It was lovely to see them and the horses.   Our own school attendant Emilia, presented Molly with a gift from the school.   We wish them all, especially Molly and Emilia, the best of luck on Saturday and hope the sun shines!

This term in St Andrew’s all classes have been studying Poetry.  We decided to celebrate this by displaying some of our work in the hall for all classes to see.  There are  lovely examples of the children using their senses and descriptive phrases to create some beautiful images for the reader.

Today in St Andrew’s we held our annual Sports Day.  We all headed down to the Dock Park and were so glad the weather stayed dry for us!  It was a great day and the children showed super sportsmanship with their encouraging nature.   The  smiles on faces whether the children were winning or losing was lovely to see.

A big Congratulations to St Catherine our blue team, who came out overall winners on the day.

Yesterday Primary 1 went on a senses walk in the woods.  We focused on one of our senses at a time and noted down what we could see, feel, hear and smell.  We used our imagination for our sense of taste thinking about the yummy things we may eat at a woodland barbecue.

This week in maths Primary 1 have been using positional language.  We have been giving our little friends the Beebots instructions using left and right turns.  We have been trying to get them to follow chalk paths and even built bridges and progammed them to get through.

 

In Primary 1 this week we have been using different openers in our writing.  We decided to use openers when writing a set of instructions about how to make toast and jam! Of course to do this properly we thought we better make some toast and jam first yum!

 

 

Our P7 bookworm Callum is celebrating the outstanding achievement of reading over 2 million words in his accelerated reading books this year.  WOW!! Callum is already busy working on his next million!

 

Three Primary 6 girls braved the elements today to take part in the Nithsdale Primary Schools Cross Country Championships.  The conditions were very muddy and it was extremely cold but the girls showed great determination with Leah finishing an amazing 6th out of over 40 girls and as a team the girls finished an impressive 5th!  The hot vimtos when we got back to school were definitely needed!  Well done Girls!

 

 

 

This week as part of our Cluster Health Programme we have been offering lunch time activities to celebrate girls in sport.  All classes had an activity to attend and received water, fruit snack and a certificate for taking part.  Our Sports Committee Reps, Shannon and Nicole helped promote the event.  Well done all who attended!