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Congratulations to St Catherine who were overall winners of our fantastic Sports Day which was held last week at the Dock Park.

A special thank you to Mrs Law for organising the races and to the St Joseph’s College pupils who were super helpers on the day!

The children have been trying lots of different foods this week at snack time. They’ve had noodles with soy sauce for Chinese new year on Monday, with some children wanting to have a go at using the chopsticks, then pancakes with toppings such as lemon juice or honey for pancake day on Tuesday. The children enjoyed watching Mrs Parker try and toss the pancakes!

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The above link takes you to the CoderDojo website. There you will find out about the nearest CoderDojo clubs. Interested?? Take a look!

 

 

 

This week we have been discussing what it means to be merciful and in particular what it means to be sorry and be forgiven. We have thought about how it makes us feel to say sorry and how it makes us feel to forgive. Even Pope Francis has to say sorry from time to time.

We had a top notch  Bananagrams 2nd round competition today, with some excellent words being made, stilts, wonder, sly, groceries to list just a few examples.

There were some extremely well matched games,  (one game being decided with just one tile difference!) .

The winners who will progress to the third round are as follows:

Toby P5/6

Bobbi – Lee P6/7

Lauren P5/6

The match between Patrycja P5/6 and Hannah P6/7 did not take place due to illness, however this will be rescheduled for later in the week.

 

Today as part of our Marvellous Monday activities P3 found out about toys children played with in Victorian times.  We listed similarities and differences between toys in the past and toys today.  We also discovered that there were several differences between the toys the rich Victorian children played with and those played with by the poor children at this time.

After having done this research we had time to try making some Victorian toys of our own.  We made ball and cup games and thaumatropes.  A thaumatrope is made by creating two separate images which when put together and twisted quickly appear to blend together to make one image! We had great fun creating these including a fish in a bowl and a bird in a cage.  You can see some of our finished work below:

 

This Tuesday will see the Stage Two competitive round for the Bananagrams challenge, and will see the following children pitting their wits  against each other:

Group One

Toby P5/6 versus Lauren P6/7

Group Two

Roxabella P4/5 versus Bobbi Lee P6/7

Group Three

Lauren P5/6 versus Leah P4/5

Group Four

Patrycja P5/6 versus Hannah P6/7

 

Good luck everyone!

The Catholic Church in Scotland encourages schools, parishes and other agencies to work closely together in order to celebrate the successes of Catholic education particularly during one week each year.  The purpose of Catholic Education Week is to highlight the significance of education, not only for young people but for society as a whole.  Students, parents, teachers and others are asked to reflect on their own roles in the education process –  at home, in school, in the local parish and in other educational settings.

P4’s visit to Robert Burns associated places last week is in the news.