Today in assembly we spoke about commination and communicating.  We spoke about how it is important that we talk to and listen to each other in respectful ways. We can use our voices to communicate, we can respond and communicate using body language and facial gestures. We spoke about active listening and not getting distracted when someone is speaking to you. We have had a lot of people saying things to each other for a joke recently when it actually isn’t a joke and it has hurt people’s feelings so we spoke about things not always seeming like joke to everyone and how everyone understanding and interprets things differently. We also spoke about the tone in which we communicate with others being important and how this is interpreted.

As well as face to face communication, online communication was also spoken about. Using appropriate language and remembering that what you put in a chat or email can be traced and we need to be very careful and safe when communicating on line through gaming, chat room or in group chats. We will look at cyber safety further on safer internet day on 11th February.

Final message was about remembering once words are out of mouths they can’t go back and similarly words online create a digital footprint and we need to stay safe.

Awards were given out to day for a variety of reasons as always. It was great to hear about the fantastic writing happening across the  school, pupils showing resilience and commitment to learning, pupils being kind caring members of the class, being a thoughtful friends. Mrs Grey had also noted some great skills in gymnastics this week for her awards winners.

Well done everyone another super week.

Andrew and Amy also received their books for winning the P6/7 and P7 Accelerated Reader raffles form Term 2

4 Capacities – Successful Learners, Effective Contributors

SHANARRI – Healthy, Achieving, Responsible,Respected

VAlues – Kind ,Committed, Respeonsible

Happy New Year everyone.

We held our first assembly and HT awards of the new term and New Year today. I was great to have all the children back with us this week.

In assembly we spoke about friendships. What qualities make a good friend, what qualities do the children have that make them good friends and what friendship means to them. We also spoke about things that are maybe not such good qualities in a friend. Please ask your children about this and see what they can tell you.

We had several class awards today as the children have come back in this week and settled really well to their learning and been motivated and engaged.  Some of our pupils have been gaining confidence in mental maths, using critical thinking skills in numeracy when learning about fractions, being effective contributors and great learning partners. well done to all award winners this week and I look forward to sharing more awards and achievement over the e course of this term.

4 capacities – Confident individuals, Successful learners, Effective contributors.

Values – Committed, Responsible

SHANARRI – Achieving, Responsible, Active

Over the past 3 weeks, classes have had great fun at their class Christmas Parties. Lots of the classes have included traditional Scottish dances as part of the parties applying skills from PE with Mrs Grey. Great dancing, fun and laughter all round. Well done everyone and thank you to the staff for arranging such great parties. More pictures available on class pages too.

4 Capacities – confident individuals, successful learners

SHANARRI– Active, Included,Responsible

Values,-Kind, Responsible, Respected, Included, Committed

A busy assembly again as always.

We had a fantastic presentation from our play leaders today about a lunchtime club they are going to set up for P3 pupils. The group have planned the club, presented their ideas and will run this in the new term. We saw great leadership, confident individuals, creativity and initiative all through their presentation. Well done.

HT awards were also give out today for a wide variety of reasons. We celebrated commitment to learning, displaying leadership skills in P1,being enthusiastic abut topic work and showing commitment to the school show.  Well done everyone.

4 Capacities – Successful Learners,Confident Individuals

SHANARRI – Achieving, Included, Active, Healthy

Values – Kind, Responsible, Respected,Included,Committed.

Meta-Skills – leadership and Creativity