Category Archives: Whole School

Assembly and HT Awards

Our pupil council presented information to the school about their plans for Children in Need next Friday. It was the first time for some of the pupils presenting to the whole school nd they all did really well.  Thank you Mrs Howie for organising this with the pupils.

The 2nd focus in assembly today was about Remembrance. I shared a lovely assembly powerpoint from the RBL with the children about the poppy and the importance of Remembrance. Some of our house captains will join me at church and the Remembrance Service in the Park on Sunday.

Head Teacher’s Awards were also given out. We had a couple of family awards which are alway great. It is lovely seeing  much pride siblings take when they see each other receiving awards.

Awards were given for lot of reasons today these included collaborating in play, showing initiative in helping peers, being a role model, showing improved understanding of meta skills, displaying the school values of included and responsible and super poetry writing. The range of achievements across the school are always amazing and it is a pleasure to hear from the teachers about pupils every week when they speak about them during assembly.

 

 

Assembly and Head Teacher’s Awards

First assembly of the new term and we spoke about the values we had worked on together last year and what these means for the school. Posters have been displayed around the school and in all classes to reinforce these.

The children were also asked to look closely at the people around them and value them and get to know people’s skills and qualities. Optical illusions were used as  the stimulus for this to make the children realise that not everyone may be as they seem from the outside and looking closely at the whole person both inside and out will help them to get to know them better.

Awards were given out today for a variety of reasons. Being committed to learning showing focus and skill, taking ownership of learning, taking on a leadership role when creating class videos, for excellent sportsmanship, creating outstanding art work and showing a renewed focus at the start of a new term were just some of the reason for awards today. Well done to all our award winners.

We also announced the total funds raised from our sponsored walk. we raised £2361. this will be used by classes to purchase outdoor learning resources or Fun 31 resources.

 

 

Assembly and HT Awards 11.10.24

Today in assembly we reflected on our value – Responsible. The Friday focus group shared their ideas and then representatives from each class shared what responsible means to them.

We also thought about harvest and things we have to be thankful for.  Thank you to everyone that provided donations for the community pantry. These will be handed in during the holidays.

Awards were also given out for a variety of reasons some of these included being a good captain in the rugby festival, always listening well during teaching time, showing commitment to learning, being determined to succeed at maths and always being kind to others.

Our house captains came out to the front at assembly today to present the awards which was fantastic. they were all confident individuals. Well done Keira-Lee, Jack, Amalie, Korey and Mollie.

Sponsored Walks

We had two fantastic sponsored walks today. The first walk this morning was P4-P7 classes round the town woods. Our second walk was for P1-P3 this afternoon round Rounall woods. The weather was in our favour this year which was great and the chatter and buzz as we went round both woods was amazing. Thank you to all family members that were able to join us for the walks, it was great to have you with us. We are so lucky to have such beautiful woods to use in our local community. Well done to all the classes.

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Assembly and HT Awards 4.10.24

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.