St Andrew's Primary School Blog

This week along with our cluster schools, St Teresa’s and St Joseph’s, we are celebrating Active Girls Week.  The girls in each class are being offered an activity to take part in during their lunch time.  After each activity fruit and water are available and everyone who participates receives a certificate.  The girls who have taken part so far  agreed it was a great way to be active during break and it gave them some ideas for playground fun in the future.

The video below comes from the NHS. It gives a background to why it is important to be there for our children. We all experience adverse situations at points in our lives. The video expresses the need for us to continue to be there for each other when these things happen. Our children have already built such ideas into the values of our school. Even though we openly acknowledge that we cannot find a solution to everything, at least together we have a better chance of helping one other when hard times arise.

https://youtu.be/sYNVvarBE5Y

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/dg/OutdoorEducationDumfriesandGalloway/2018/05/02/st-andrews-on-criffel-march-2018/

This week in Primary 1 we have been practising our positional language including words like under, beneath, next to, inside and between.  Yesterday we took toy animals out to the playground and gave each other instructions as to where to put them.  Today we designed our own obstacle courses in PE and used the language of position to describe our movements.  Here are some photos of both activities:

 

Last week Mr.V drove two of our P7 pupils to Glasgow Film Theatre for the premier of a documentary to celebrate 100 years since the education act that enabled Catholic Schools to come under state control. Caitlin and Owen were two of our pupils who were filmed as part of the documentary so were invited to its launch. The film is available to view now on Youtube – link below.

The boys and girls in P2, P3 and P4 had a treat day with the money we raised at our Christmas Craft Fayre. We went to the cinema to see Coco and enjoyed Pizza when we came back, I think the Pizza went down a treat!!

 

As part of their ‘Business’ topic, P2 were finding out about the different jobs which are involved in running a business. They carried out a survey asking which snacks were most popular, they handed out order forms and collected the orders and money in, they made a shopping list for all the snacks we needed, some of them even carried the shopping bags all the way back to school from Morrison’s, they sorted the orders out for each day and delivered them to the classes. What super hard workers in P2 and they managed to raise a fantastic £85.00 for SCIAF. Well Done!

 

This week Primary 1 and Nursery worked together on some Easter activities.  We also had a visit from two children from St Andrew’s Nursery Brooke Street.  The children iced Easter themed biscuits which all agreed were yummy! The children also got creative designing their own Easter Cards.

It was great fun and we look forward to more activities together next term.

On Wednesday the 21st of March P7 invited their parents and grandparents into class to find out about the learning they have been doing this term.  It was a super afternoon ran by the children and we were extremely happy so many people could attend.  We entertained everyone with some music from our Charanga Music scheme, the song we chose to do was Happy by Pharrell Williams.  A good choice as it was one everyone seemed to know.  We also had 4 Scottish poems to share.  After that the children ran various activities to share their learning.  We had a game of Guess Who in French as well as French animal Bingo and a colour by numbers activity.  In maths we had parents creating pie charts and calculating the decimal fraction, fraction and percentages of coloured skittles in a packet as well as timing our parents on the Strong Maths mental challenges.  Outside some P7’s were running hockey and rugby drills and games as well as organising a World Book Day treasure hunt in the forest.  It was nice to see how well the children could teach others new skills including how to play Bridge and also to weave on paper plates.  The children were glad to hear your feedback it was all really positive and we will certainly aim to improve next time – I believe a bigger space and tea, coffee and cakes would be appreciated! We will see what we can do! Thank you again and well done P7

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