This week we are thinking about how to be resilient and think about things positively even when we’re finding it difficult. Our assembly this week will be all about this and I’d like to share some of your ideas about times you’ve succeeded even when you found it difficult.

Following on from the guidance posted on the app about the return on Monday 22nd February, here is a video about entrances and exits for the ECC and P1-3 tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing you.

This week’s theme is kindness. I hope you do one of the kindness challenges and send it to me to see.

Last week’s challenge was to share our favourite places with our favourite things that make us feel happy and relaxed.

I hope you’ve had a good week. I know you’ve all been working hard. I hope you enjoy this week’s assembly.

Numeracy Strategies for Parents/Carers

This series of videos have been created to share, with parents and carers, some of the approaches to teaching and learning in numeracy, calculation strategies and terminology currently being developed across schools in East Ayrshire:

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ea/numeracyandmathematics/category/numeracy-strategies-for-parents-carers/

This week I’d like you to think about your favourite place. This is somewhere you go to relax. I’d like you to make a picture of your favourite place, including all the things that help you relax. If you send them to me by Thursday night, I will include them in our Friday assembly. Remember to send me any good news you’d like to share at assembly by Thursday night too.

Well done for all the hard work you did last week. There were lots of opportunities to ‘Express Yourself’. Here are a few examples of pupils expressing themselves.

Well done for all your hard work this week everyone. This is out first online assembly. We have been thinking about mental health this week and hoe we ‘express ourselves’. Our assembly is all about that. I hope you enjoy it.

This week I’d like you to think about how you express your thoughts, ideas and feelings. I’d like you to think of something you enjoy doing. This may be a new hobby you’ve started during lockdown or something you’ve done for longer. Choose your own way of telling us us about this. You can draw or paint a picture, sing a song, do a dance, act it out, take a photograph, write a story or poem or make a film. If you send any of these by Thursday night, I’ll include them in a virtual assembly which I will post on Friday. I can’t wait to see your ideas.