Here are this week’s Starwriters and Maths Award winners. The P 1-3 Maths awards went to Aeson Allardyce, Liam Kelly, Emily Hyslop, Andrew Phillips, Katy Tickner and Charlie Scullion. The P4-7 Starwriters were Matthew Bradley, Martha McClean, Callum MacDonald, Nathan Hope, Katie Newlands and Jayden Collins. Well done to all!!
Category Archives: Literacy and English
ECC donations welcomed…
Mrs Cotton is looking for donations for the role play area. The children have asked for the role play area to become a supermarket. We are looking for donations to stock up our supermarket. Ideas would include cleaned out bottles such as fairy liquid, fabric conditioner, shampoo, conditioner, soap, sauces, milk cartons, juice bottles or any other supermarket item including food boxes/packaging. If you have any other resources suitable for our supermarket such as a till, trollies, baskets or plastic food all donations would be greatly appreciated.
Miss Clark is hoping to make up story bags and is looking for donations of things related to the stories of goldilocks and the three bears, The hungry caterpillar, The Gruffalo and a variety of other small teddies. We appreciate your help and support.
Information on developing your child’s speech sounds…
Please have a look at our communication corner for more information and leaflets on development of speech sounds. These are pointers on aiding your child’s overall language and communication development.
Nursery Rhyme of the week….
Our Nursery Rhyme of the week is Hickory Dickory Dock. Please encourage your child to make up rhyming words for each verse. Singing rhymes and developing knowledge of rhyming words raises phonological awareness for your child moving on to Primary School.
Certificate Winners
Congratulations to our first Starwriters and Maths certificate winners of 2018 who were presented with their awards at Friday’s assembly!! Each week we alternate these literacy and numeracy awards between the older and younger classes to celebrate the achievement of our learners. The P4-7 Starwriters this week were Miller Stewart, Charlotte McLardy, Harry Thomson, Roan Darnbrough and Marcus Ahrens. This week’s Maths award winners were Megan Haggerty, Mark Wilson, Brooke Jamieson, Finlay Black, Nathan Hamilton, Bobby Cowan and Aaron Goldie. These certificates will now be displayed in our school for everyone to read. Well done to all!!
Communication Corner
Please speak to your child’s keyworker about any concerns regarding your child’s speech or communication. Have a look on the board for information regarding age and stage speech sound development. Inside the yellow button wallet are leaflets regarding speech development for your guidance. Here at Gargieston we have an appointed communication champion Miss Clark who regularly works in partnership with the SALT team attending training and network meetings to improve and support communication and language development for your child. We are a Makaton friendly environment and hope to reach being a communication friendly environment in the future. Please have a look at the yellow button wallet and take a leaflet these have been restocked.
Communication Board update….
Our top tip of the month is make reading part of your day. I have made up another sheet that provides key information on the benefits and impact of regularly reading with your child. Please take a few moments to have a read or view our communication board in the ECC cloakroom where you will find more information on aiding your child’s communication and language skills.
Nursery Rhyme of the week…
Our Nursery Rhyme of the week is Little Jackie, Jack Frost and we have three Makaton signs we will learn within the song. Please feel free to try these out at home with your child. Makaton is fun for everyone and aids your child’s communication and language skills.
Literacy Group
At participation group time, the Literacy Group has been carrying out an audit of all our reading books. If anyone thinks they have a book at home which should be returned to school, we would be very grateful.
Primary 7 today – pantomimes and pen pals!
Last month Primary 7 pupils wrote their first pen pal letters to an English speaking school in Spain. This was made possible by a former pupil of Gargieston who is now a teacher in the school, contacting us and coming in to visit when home in Kilmarnock.
Well, the first letters back arrived in the post today and there was much excitement in our class!
We learned about all sorts from their favourite films and foods to Spanish customs and cuisine. Our children were not impressed at the thought of octopus and potatoes!
Now, we have made Christmas cards to send back and will pop in another letter before the Christmas holidays.
Not forgetting we had a terrific morning at the pantomime – oh yes we did!!
Pantomime and pen pals 🙂
