To celebrate Earth Day we explored our school garden on a beautiful spring day! The pupils discussed which UNCRC Articles were most relevant to today and decided that Article 24 was very important.

We spent the afternoon planting spinach and radishes to use a source of good nutritious food that we can cook with later!

Primary 6/7 also completed a survey for the UN that aims to uphold children’s rights and protect our planet.

Our whole school enjoyed a trip out to Dumfries House today.  They spent time at the Educational Farm and Educational Garden, where they planted runner beans and saw a variety of animals!  Primary 6/7 discussed the importance of eating nutritional food and even explained the importance of Article 24 of the UNCRC! #RRSA

From everyone at St. Xavier’s, we’d like to wish the 3 boys all the best for their next steps at the Academy.
Work hard! Do yourself, your families and us proud!!

Here are some highlights from today’s Fun Day 😁  Brilliant fun and wonderful weather 😎

Don’t  know who had more fun – kids or staff!

Today we had a glorious day for our annual prize giving.

Our big prize winners:

Successful Learner – Layton
Confident Individual – Abigail
Effective  Contributor – Logan
Literacy Award – Emma
Numeracy Award – Kevin
Ethos & Values – Phoebe
Health & Wellbeing – Henley
(Lethan Hill Award)
Pupil of the Year – Robert
(Jubilee Trophy)
Wider Achievement – Lilly
(Davie Watt Memorial)

Everyone was a winner though!

Here are some photos from our sports day yesterday.

It wasn’t the best weather but we still had fun! 😁

Well done to all our sports stars!!

P1/2 are learning about Under the Sea.   Mrs Purdie kindly bought us some toy sharks that actually grow in our sea tray.  We decided we would measure them each day this week.  Before measuring with cubes, we all made an estimate of how many cubes long it was.  Some of our estimates were a little too big!

Day 1 – the sharks measured 6 cubes long.

We also tested out our estimation and measuring skills on pictures of sea creatures.

Day 2 of our shark measuring was done by Mrs Purdie as we  were off school.   They both measured 8 cubes long – they had grown 2 cubes longer in a day!

Day 3 – one of the sharks is now 9 cubes long and the other is 10  cubes long!

These are small measures so we challenged ourselves at estimating and measuring some of our classmates!

We counted all the cubes with Miss McLaren to see how long the pupils actually were.

Day 4 – we measured our sharks today after the weekend.  They had both grown again!  They are both now 11 cubes long!!

Today (Monday) we also decided to do an even bigger challenge of measuring the length of Mrs Purdie.  Again we made an estimate and then measured her length in cubes.

Primary 3/4 enjoyed an Easter egg hunt in the playground with their friends today in preparation for Easter!

We were not competitive at all!

And the winner………..

Aidan from Primary 3!  Well done Aidan great job! You’ll look great with those bunny ears and tail!

Happy Easter everyone!!!!!