Category Archives: Wider Achievements

Writing Competition

To promote writing and celebrate the great work being created in Gargieston and across the SWEIC (South West Education Improvement Collaborative), entries are invited for a writing competition. Alongside prizes for the winners and runners-up in each category, pupils will have their writing shared on the SWEIC blog.

The theme of the competition is ‘The Gift’ and work submitted can be linked to this idea in any way. You may wish to link it to Christmas, but you might also want to think about the idea of gifts and giving in a different way.

Early Years’ Entries Pupils can share their mark-making or dictated ideas. Entries should be within one A4 page and may be pictures, photographs or in any other appropriate form.

P1-3 Entries Entries can take any form that they choose. The entry must be no longer than one side of A4 and can be illustrated. Typed or handwritten entries will be accepted.

P4-7 Entries Entries from this age group should be broadly creative: poetry, story or drama. They may be up to two sides of A4 and can include illustrations.

We know how many talented writers we have in school and would love to see as many entries from Gargieston as possible.

Please email or hand entries to Mrs Lawson no later than Monday 13th December

eashona.lawson@glow.sch.uk

 

 

The Achievements Keep Coming!

A big shout out to Annie and Sam Warburton who ran a 2K Hallowe’en race at the weekend to raise money for Cancer Research. Annie and Sam, we are so proud of you for putting others first as you ran in the rain!

Here are some pictures from the day.

Another reason to be proud….

Huge congratulations to Finlay McPhail of P5A who ran a 1 mile fun run during Kilmarnock Hallowe’en Running Festival to raise money for Ayrshire Cancer Support. Here he is, with his dad and sister Beth, wearing his zombie medal. Well done, Finlay and Beth for braving the cold and the rain to finish the race! We are so proud of you.

Wider Achievements

At assembly times, we have always liked to celebrate the children’s wider achievements – their successes out with school times. It’s great to have this again with clubs and events back up and running, so we thought we’d share some with you on the blog too.

Anna Reid, in Primary 6A, recently competed at  an international gymnastics event in South Tyneside. Anna, along with her two secondary aged team mates won the GOLD medal – an amazing reward for all their hard work and dedication. Well done, Anna we are extremely proud of you and I’m sure everyone looking at these photos will be so impressed with what you are capable of doing. That’s Anna at the top, everyone!

Also, congratulations to some runners in the school. The Rana and Ahmad families took part in a 5K Pretty Muddy run in Manchester in memory of family members and all others affected by cancer, raising an amazing £1182. Again, we are so proud of your fabulous achievement, fundraising for such a worthy cause.

Here are pictures of Anaya, Alisha and Yusuf finishing  their run and later with their medals.

Race for Life

A huge well done to Bryony Dean in P4B for running the 3km Race for Life in 18 minutes raising a whopping £300.  A massive congratulations from all of us at Gargieston Primary and we are all super proud of you.

Road Race

It is great to see some outdoor events beginning to be held again – one of them being the Schools Road Race in Grangemouth yesterday.

We had 4 teams from P6 and 7 participating. They all ran extremely well in this national event with a special mention going to the P6 girls team who finished 5th and the two P7 boys teams for finishing 8th and 9th out of 26.

We are so proud of you representing the school and thanks to all your parents for taking you along. Well done, Team Gargieston!

Christmas Cards!

You may remember from last session, we shared the fabulous news that Abbie Russell, now P4, won a national competition to design a Christmas Card for sale in Shelter Scotland shops. We are delighted to announce that these are now for sale in all their branches (including Prestwick and Ayr) at the price of  £2.49 for a pack of 10. It will be lovely to think of these being shared by our families while supporting an extremely worthwhile cause.

Huge congratulations once again to Abbie – we are so proud of you and here’s a reminder of the winning card.

Abbie Russell

Thinking Day

What is World Thinking Day?

World Thinking Day is celebrated on 22nd February each year. It is celebrated around the world by 10 million Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 150 countries. Additionally, some boy-orientated organisations also celebrate this day. World Thinking Day is a global event where children are encouraged to think about their ‘sisters’ or ‘brothers’ that are in similar groups around the world.

World Thinking Day Themes

Each year, World Thinking Day has a theme attached to it, listed below are the last few years:
2016: Connect
2017: Grow
2018: Impact
2019: Leadership
In 2020, World Thinking Day will embrace the theme of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Guiding and Scouting values and respects people for who they are, during the day this year, these organisations will recognise the importance of working to build a world where everyone feels included, all around the world.

This year some pupils have asked if they can wear their Brownie/Guide/Beaver/Scout uniform to help with this recognition. We feel that this would be a lovely way to show inclusion and look forward to seeing children in their uniform on Friday 21st should they wish to do so.

Rotary Quiz Success

A huge well done to Jack, Lauren, Sophie and Harry who came 1st place in the Rotary Quiz tonight.  They were a credit to Gargieston tonight.

Congratulations.

**Wider Achievements**

 


Our next Wider Achievement Assembly will be on Monday 3rd February.
Any pupils with medals or certificates for the assembly should bring them into school with their Wider Achievement slip tomorrow or on Monday.