Sorry for the belated blog post…. those pesky elves! The children had a great build up to Christmas in the school. They gave a fantastic performance in the school show and were rewarded with a visit from Santa Claus! Santa brought each of the children their own special present which they wished for in class.
Additionally, the children enjoyed a yummy Christmas dinner a few days before the holidays which included turkey, roast potatoes and everybody’s favourite… Brussel sprouts!
Well done to all the children for their efforts in Term 2. I hope everyone had an enjoyable Christmas and Happy New Year.
Children in Need Day was a great success at Portpatrick primary this year, with students, staff, and families coming together to raise funds and awareness for a fantastic cause.
Students (and staff!) dressed in colourful outfits, some sporting the iconic yellow and polka-dotted theme of Pudsey Bear.
The day kicked off with a special assembly led by Mr. Morrison, where the importance of Children in Need was highlighted. Students learned how their contributions would directly help children and young people across the UK facing challenges such as poverty, illness, and disability.
The creativity on display was amazing, with children creating cupcakes in the afternoon with ingredients supplied by Miss. Whorlow. Our Pupils raised £30.00 through donations of non-uniform and seeing “how far our pennies go”.
Well done everyone involved!
SHANARRI – Safe, Healthy, Nurtured.
UNCRC: Article 27 – Food, Clothing, A safe home. Article 26 – Social and Economic help
The Fire Safety Warden Robert came into our school to talk about how to keep safe during Guy Fawkes night. This included discussing the types of material that are allowed to be burned in a bonfire and identifying which substances aren’t safe for the environment. He conversed about safety procedures and what type of safety equipment should be used to keep us safe at this fun (but potentially dangerous) time of year.
George testing out safety equipment.
Carter performing the “Stop, drop and roll”
Article 3: Best interests of the child, Article 19: Protection from Violence, Abuse and Neglect.
Last Thursday we had a great day at Portpatrick primary school for our Halloween party! The house captains (Carter + Lacey) organised some party games and there were lots of treats provided by the school.
Some of our party games included musical statues, 4 corners and Skeleton, Skeleton, Zombie (a game made up by Carter).
After a brief intermission and some treats, the ghoulish games commenced with a mummy wrap (where the P7s were mummified!), a hot pumpkin game (similar to hot potato), pass the parcel and we rounded off the day with a judging of the best costume.
Thanks to all the parents who turned up, donated Halloween gifts and put a lot of effort into getting the children dressed in their costumes. It made it an afternoon to remember for the children.
Article 12: (respect for the views of the child)
Article 29: (goals of education)
Meta-skills: Self-Management: Initiative, Social Intelligence: Leading, Innovation: Creativity.
Our learners took part in Maths Week participating in a range of different number experiences including a Sumdog contest, making shape monsters, counting our laps in the daily mile and making 3D buildings as part of our shape city! Additionally, the children organised our Macmillan Coffee Morning where the pupils used budgeting, finance and counting the number of raffle tickets sold!
The responsibilities for our learners have been chosen
Our learners submitted applications for the school’s Pupil Voice groups. They worked very hard on putting forward their skills, attributes and qualities for the various positions (as they would do in a real job scenario).
The house captains did especially well as they had to do a presentation for their roles.
The following pupils were selected for the following groups:
Lacey: House Captain of Portree and Carter: House captain of Dunskey
It was great to be back at Portpatrick school seeing all the pupils’ faces as well as meeting three new children! We had great fun settling back into school.
Our younger pupils had some time playing in their new classroom as well as completing some art tasks and showing us how well they know the alphabet!
Our older pupils logged onto our new education platform – Purple Mash. This can used at home for extra support on various aspects of learning. Parents can also access the platform through a Parent code which will be sent out with homework diaries next week!
Our children played some board games with Barbara and Mrs. Henry. This will be available for children to participate in more this year as the school looks to further our childrens ‘meta-skills’. These skills include developing abilities such as self-management – focusing, integrity, adapting, initiative and Social intelligence – communicating, feeling, collaborating, leading.
Keep your eyes on the blog for all the updates of the fun activities we will be getting stuck in to!
Here’s some photos of our Portpatrick pupils from our first day back…
All the children had a great time and despite the change of date for our Sports Day, the turnout was fantastic! First of all we had the sprint race as well as 9 other races which included: Skipping, Sack, Egg & Spoon, Throw, Obstacle, Distance and Relay. After this we had the eagerly anticipated Parents’ race which was a fiercely competitive end to the day. Well done to house Portree who won the relay race and to all the boys and girls who participated and gave their all during Sports Day!
Portpatrick Pupils were environmentally aware today. As part of our Eco Schools Scotland action plan on litter and waste, the children have been learning about the negative impact this has on biodiversity.
The children have been working in partnership with our local Community Safety Wardens to design litter awarness posters. These have been made into weather-proof posters to encourage everyone to be responsible to protect our environment & wildlife, and to keep our beautiful village looking spotless for everyone to enjoy. The community safety team escorted the pupils around the village to prominently display our posters for all to see.
We are responsible citizens and effective contributors.
UNCRC Rights of the Child – Article 24: Health, Water, Food & Environment
Sustainable Development Goals: 1 – Life Below Water, 15-Life on Land,
Today Parents and stakeholders from the community came to our school to appreciate how hard our children have worked on learning their UNCRC Rights of the Child.
We kicked off the afternoon with a performance from P1-4 accompanied by the Feis Rois group. They sung beautifully and shared brilliant Scottish knowledge and jokes that had the audience in laughter.
After this we had a whole school performance for “We’ve all got Rights”. The children have learned to sign this song as part of our schools endeavour to become more inclusive.
Mr. Webb who is the equality improvement officer for Inclusion then gave a talk about the importance of Rights and how they can be embedded in schools. He kindly gave up his time to enlighten our community on the objectives for meeting a gold award and how the Rights can benefit us.
We then participated in a competitive game of Rights Bingo. Well done Mrs. Ross who won the coveted Kit Kat bar prize!
Our pupils then introduced our playground charter and how this was shaped using our Rights and the younger class talked about our ABCDE of Rights. After this families joined in to play Rights games and talked to children about their journeys towards gold.
A big thank you once again to everyone who came along to the Parent assembly, your continued support is greatly appreciated. It was especially exciting to see one of our new pupils who is starting after the summer.
UNCRC Rights of the Child
Article 3: Best interests of the child, Article 1: Definition of a child, Article 42: Everyone must know Children’s Rights
