St Andrew's Primary School Blog

 

 

 

On Thursday 8th June P5-7 participated in a World of Work afternoon. 16 presenters gave up their time to come along and talk to the children about their jobs. It was a very informative afternoon for the children and they asked lots of interesting and pertinent questions. Feedback given by the presenters at the end of the afternoon was very positive and, in particular, they commented on the courteous, well mannered and attentive behaviour of the children. We are grateful to all of the adults for giving up their time, and hope you will return again.

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.

In the last few weeks Primary 6 have been very busy with all the fundraisers like discos, murder mystery and colouring competition as well as continuing to fill the back packs.

All of the fundraising made £190.78 – a fantastic amount!!

We are almost at the end of our project. All we need are a few more items. If you have any old or spare towels, shorts, t-shirts, school dresses, flip flops or sandals in children sizes can you please hand them into the Primary 6 class room by next Tuesday [20th June]

 

Primary 5 have been learning about Changing Materials in their science focus with Mrs Kerr this term. They were set a homework challenge where they had to solve a Desert Island Dilemma, and think of ways they could separate salt and sand from water, to ensure the water was clean enough to drink.  We then visited St Joseph’s Science labs, where, with the help of Miss McCormick and Miss McGarva, they tested out their theories.

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.

P2 were making fruit kebabs as part of their healthy eating topic. They made a list of fruits they would like on their kebabs and wrote a shopping list, Miss Cullen bought the fruit and they made their kebabs. Some even tried fruits they had never tired before. They were super tasty and we enjoyed eating them outside in the sun. We even made one to take home.

 

 

Today we made chocolate crispy cakes to inspire us in writing a class poem.

              

First we broke up the chocolate bars and melted the chocolate while talking about what we could smell. Then we poured in rice crispies.

                 

After that we mixed the crispy cakes, listening to what noises we could hear.

                

Next we took turns filling our bun cases and sharing our ideas of what the filled cases looked like.

                   

Finally we munched and crunched our cakes, telling each other what we thought they tasted like.

Last of all we suggested describing words for a class poem. We hope you like it.

Chocolate Crispy Cakes by P1

I can see shiny, bubbly melted chocolate.

I can hear crunching noises and children squealing.

I can smell sugary, sweet chocolate.

I can feel warm, gooey, bumpy sandcastles.

I can taste a sweet, silky, creamy crispy cake.

 

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.