What a great first meeting I had today with the house captains and vice captains. I was gathering their views about rewards for the winning house at the end of each term. They came up with some great ideas for rewards but also lots of other ideas that they would like to organise throughout the year.
Watch this space for more house updates.
Colliston, Craignair, Dalmun and Screel.
Unfortunately we didn’t manage to have a Friday Focus group today but class teachers did discuss with their classes our school value of being included today. The children brought lots of lovely ideas to share at assembly. Some very thoughtful answers as well that really made us think and reflect.
Awards today were given as always for a variety of reasons. Some of these included demonstrating meta-skills, being a responsible member of the class, over coming worries about presenting to the class, putting in great effort across the term in all areas of the curriculum, embracing 3rd level maths and being a super role model. Well done to all our award winners.
Well today at lunch time we had three football games going on at once. Never has this happened before! The Sports Captains and Vice Captains were amazing and took responsibility for playing with, encouraging and supporting both P1 and P2 so that both year groups had the opportunity to play football. So proud of how they have taken on these leadership roles and responsibilities.
P6 were with myself for football and I did compliment them on how well they had played today. We do have some skilled players across the school but when we play football at school we are very mindful of the variety of skill levels we have and always try to encourage everyone to do their best, show sporting attitudes at all time. These qualities were definitely shown by P6 today. Well done.
Evie and Logan two of our JRSOs showing leadership skills when organising and sorting badges to hand out for our September WOW tracker. Great to see we have made it onto the leadership board for Autumn walk to school week.
Throughout this week the classes have been taking part in a range of maths and numeracy activities. These have been both indoors and outdoors. Some of the classes have also taken part in live lessons linked to maths and numeracy. It has been fantastic to see the range of knowledge skills being developed throughout each session.
Mrs Lumsden Primary 6 played two different strategy games. Fifteen was played outside and in call today the children played a game called Nim, a strategy game using 20 counters. Sofia and Sophie managed to fit all the shapes into the area allowed. Well done girls.
Mrs Mr Mclean – P6 have participated in a webinar with the Royal Botanic garden to find out how to measure weather, collect rainwater from plants etc. they then completed follow up task about rain water calculations. Unfortunately their maths fashion webinar got cancelled but they use 2D shapes to create and design their own patterns that could be used for ties or t-shirt designs.
Primary 2/3 created some maths adventures tries featuring eat maths week mascot Finn Finity.
P4/5 have been busy learning about 2D and 3D shapes, and angles. We have played group games, made nets of shapes, iPad games, and lots of outdoor shape and angle activities!
Primary 4/5 have also been carrying out different calculations using a variety of numbers and operations.
Primary 4 have been outdoor creating symmetrical patterns and shapes as well as linking facts about themselves to numbers.
Primary 6/7 had a live lesson, worked collaboratively with P1 to create maths stories and created their own maths comic strip. Throughout all their learning they were thinking about what met-skills they had been using.
A full assembly again today. PC Blacklock and her colleague PC McCormick visited us in assembly to remind the children about the importance of the emergency services and appropriate use 999 number for emergency purposes. It was great to see PC Blacklock in school today and she will be popping back into see P1 as part their topic this term.
We spoke today in Friday Focus about our 3rd Value Respected and continued this in assembly. Some confident individuals sharing what respected means in their classes.
Head Teacher’s awards for lots of different reasons. As always lots of hard work and great learning taking place across the classes. Being committed and contributing to class discussions, taking on challenges in writing, excellent work in maths. a great attitude to learning and giving 110% effort were just a few of the reasons for awards this week. Well done to all our award winners.
What a fantastic day to be out with some of our P7s undertaking their bikeability level 1 training today. All the children were amazing. They carried out bike and helmet checks. They followed instructions with care and demonstrated a good awareness of cycle control, gliding,stopping,starting and turning. The slow race was a great challenge and they all gave this a great go. Looking forward to progressing to level 2 training next term.
Well done to Oliva who took part in the Scottish Dressage Championships at the weekend and won overall achieving a Scottish title. Olivia was the highest scoring youth rider with 70% in her score. Fantastic achievement.
These are the photos…..a few more plus the full story will follow later.
With the exception of the first few pictures, the rest are in reverse chronological order, starting with the latest through to the beginning of the ceremony.
This is our second post from our P4-7 Sports, this afternoon when the Championships were announced as well as the House team who won the most points to be awarded the shield.
Well done Fallon McGimpsey for becoming the Girls’ Champion and Cameron Hitchell For being the Boys’ Champion. Runners up were Chelsea O’Neill, Alfie Hughes and Rory McCormick
The winner of the 300m Girls’ Cup was Chelsea O’Neill and the runner up was Fallon McGimpsey. The winner of the 300m Boys’ Cup was Rory McCormick and the runner up was Cameron Hitchell.
The Sports House Shield was won by Dalmun.
Well done all!
Thank you all for coming along and cheering. Well done sports captains and vice captains on encouraging your teams. Thanks also to John and Ross from Active Schools and our High School sports leaders.
