This afternoon P5-7 were given the choice of what they wanted to do relating to Titanic. The choices were to draw the Titanic either in cartoon form, pencil sketching or in any other way; making the Titanic out of a choice of materials; researching the Titanic and producing a PowerPoint on it. The children got stuck in and absolutely loved getting to choose what they wanted to do. We had
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Janet from Creative Stranraer came to visit our school on Monday this week to tell the children about the exciting Cycling Festival which is happening in Stranraer soon. She was looking to gather ideas from the children as to what type of activities they would like to see at such a festival. As expected, the children were full of fantastic ideas including ‘design a bike’, ‘bike rides’, ‘make bike out
As we are now beginning to have a reward for the winning house each term, we worked out who had attained the most points in the past 3 terms. Luckily, it worked out that all 3 houses – St. Andrews, St. Ninians and St. Columbus – had won a term each!! The house captains and vice captains worked with their houses to decide on a prize and all 3 houses
Today, as a school, we attended Mass for the Holy Day of Obligation – the Ascension of Jesus. The children have learned about this event this week and joined the parish today to celebrate in Mass. Primary 5-7 read the bidding prayers as usual but today the church was much fuller than it usually is for our school masses! A huge well done to Lolah, Ry, Rubie, Ava W. and
Jo came back on Thursday to talk to the children about animals that are native to Scotland, in particular, the red squirrels. Jo put on a wonderful presentation that the children all enjoyed. Jo helps with animal conservation and explained the importance of this to the pupils. The children got to feel weighted toy red and grey squirrels to see the difference in the heaviness of each as, although they
Today we had a visit from one of our past Primary 7 pupils – Jared! Everyone was super excited to see him and he held a Q&A session with the whole primary 5-7 class before having a good old catch up with the primary 7’s. Jared is doing very well at the academy and was ensuring the primary 7’s that they will do the same. The primary 7’s are getting
On Monday, Kelly Whorlow from Apex came to the school to talk to the children about food banks, what they do and why they are important. We learned why food banks are needed, what type of products they supply and how important it is to donate when we can to help others in need. The children asked lots of good questions and were also able to identify how food banks
Congratulations to Brooke and Ava W. who both won a ‘Safety in the Community’ poster design competition for World Safety Day (28th April). This competition was for all the Primary schools in the area. Brooke won the P6/7 category and Ava W. won the P4/5 category! Aylie from the Caledonian Cheese Company came to the school on Friday to present the girls with their certificates and prizes. The girls’ posters
Today we celebrated World Earth Day and P5-7 kickstarted it with a Live session on Tech for Sustainable Transport. The children joined many other schools in discussing various forms of transport, how they affect the environment and the fuels used to power different vehicles. The session included many fun activities and encouraged the children to think of ways that transport could be made more sustainable and also be helpful to
Last week Primary 5-7 took part in 3 sessions of game designing through coding with My World of Work. The children began by learning how computers work, how video games are made and about the surprising amount of careers available to them in the gaming industry. The children discussed how there should be no gender stereotying or barriers to girls choosing STEM careers. We talked about the importance of Metaskills
