What a great day we all had at Summerlee. We learned lots about life in the past during our workshop and our tour of the mine.

Science 🧪

We have been learning how to investigate and research Forces. We have investigated friction, magnetism, gravity and air resistance. We really loved designing our own magnetic maze games  🧲

Walk Scoot and Cycle  🚲

We enjoyed taking part in Walk Scoot Cycle! We love being active and being outside! 🛴 🚲 🏃‍♀️

Red Nose Day ♥️

We helped to raise over £300 for Red Nose Day!

Eid 🌙 ⭐️
We are widening our understanding of world religions. We enjoyed being creative to help us learn all about Eid. We designed prayer mats, created symmetrical mosques, researched the 5 pillars of Islam and made Eid cards.

Weight and Measure ⚖️

We are learning how to measure the weight and mass of different items. We know that we use grams and kilograms as a unit of measuring weight. We know that there are 1000g in 1kg. We can identify the grams on different groceries. We are learning how to weigh using analogue, digital and balance scales. We enjoyed feeling what 1kg felt like using the weights.

WOW! What a lot of hard work and preparation went into solo talks this week. I LOVED listening to all your wonderful presentations and learning lots about you and your interests. You all spoke confidently and clearly and everyone demonstrated excellent listening skills with lots of appropriate questions being asked. Well done Primary 2 🌟👏

We had a great time celebrating World Book Day (we made it World Book week) in March by listening to and working on Fantastic Mr Fox 🦊

First we learned about alliteration.

Then we used what we had been learning about the different characters in the story to write a character description.

After that we discussed how the farmers were feeling and we created ‘wanted’ posters for Mr Fox.

We enjoyed using the puppets in the theatre to retell parts of the story.

Finally, we made fox masks and recreated the fantastic feast from the book by chopping fruit and making fruit kebabs.

We were delighted to receive our World Book Day books and we enjoyed reading them in class.

February has been filled with lots of gymnastics, mandarin, learning about fractions and vertical calculations! Thank you to all our adults that visited us during Open Afternoon 🤩

WOW! What a lot of hard work and preparation went into solo talks this week. I LOVED listening to all your wonderful presentations and learning lots about you and your interests. You all spoke confidently and clearly and everyone demonstrated excellent listening skills with lots of appropriate questions being asked. Well done Primary 2 🌟👏

We had a great time celebrating World Book Day (we made it World Book week) in March by listening to and working on Fantastic Mr Fox 🦊

First we learned about alliteration.

Then we used what we had been learning about the different characters in the story to write a character description.

After that we discussed how the farmers were feeling and we created ‘wanted’ posters for Mr Fox.

We enjoyed using the puppets in the theatre to retell parts of the story.

Finally, we made fox masks and recreated the fantastic feast from the book by chopping fruit and making fruit kebabs.

We were delighted to receive our World Book Day books and we enjoyed reading them in class.

February has been filled with lots of gymnastics, mandarin, learning about fractions and vertical calculations! Thank you to all our adults that visited us during Open Afternoon 🤩

Primary 4 started gymnastics in PE today.  They worked on their balancing skills .

They worked closely with a partner to replicate the balance shown on the card. The used their communication and listening skills to keep each other feeling confident and safe.  Well doe boys and girls!

Cross Arthurlie is committed to creating a safe and secure environment where bullying is discussed and challenged.

We  adopt a wide range of strategies to prevent and respond to incidents of bullying, putting a high degree of importance on developing positive relationships.

We create inclusive ethos and culture and find this is the most effective way of reducing and responding to incidents of bullying.

Our Anti-Bullying Policy and daily practice reflect an ambition to ensure a strong ethos of fairness, equality and respect.

Here are some ideas we use with children that we think might help at home.

Parental Behaviour Supports

The Book Fair will be here on Thursday 9th, Friday 10th and Monday 13th March.  There will be a wonderful range of books to choose from:  Book Fair Invitation.

Occasionally we have to run an emergency menu. Please find attached the emergency menu information from East Renfrewshire facilities Management. Emergency menu

On Thursday 10th March there will be an Around the World menu available in our dining hall.

Around the World Menu

Special lunch menu for 25th February.

Pupils celebration 2022 

Children’s handmade Christmas crafts are on sale this week.

Christmas lunch will be served in our dining hall on Tuesday 14th December.

Christmas Menu – Early Years

Christmas Menu – Primary School

We are excited for Halloween fun on Friday 29th October.  Our Parent Council have kindly donated money for each class to spend on food, drinks, games or activities for the children to enjoy during the afternoon.

Halloween Information Letter

We have been working on a new set of values for the school and are now looking for someone really creative to help us re-brand Cross Arthurlie Primary School and Nursery Class. We will be keeping both the school and nursery badges but we are looking for a visual that could be used as a backdrop for posters, used on newsletters and on the school website which would represent our new vision of:

“A caring community of learners”

The values we hold:

• Kindness
• Respect
• Confidence

Together we will develop a curriculum where the journey of learning is a priority. We will build friendships and confidence looking out for each other as we live life now and prepare for our future.

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