As we approach World Book Day we have developed a Storytelling Sway which features some of our staff team sharing their favourite stories for you and your child to enjoy at home. We hope you enjoy it!
Category Archives: – Pupils
Lucy’s Blue Day
We recently welcomed Chris Duke, the author of Lucy’s Blue Day, to Glenwood. The book is written to help children understand their emotions, and to encourage mental health awareness. Thank you to the parents who were able to join us for the sessions and thank you to Chris for his visit.
ECO…. Unnecessary packaging
We have been learning about the impact of plastic on the environment. We carried out a survey on our lunch packaging and produced a graph to show the types of packaging used in our lunch boxes. Many of us have reusable wraps, tubs and flasks…. can we do more to reduce our waste?
Outdoor Parent Workshops
We recently held a series of Outdoor Parent Workshops. These included outdoor play, den building and fire lighting. Thank you to everyone who came along and to the staff team for hosting these sessions.
Parents gave lovely feedback and we look forward to hosting some more workshops in the New Year.
“It was a lovely adventure for me to attend the Family Centre …for the wonderful Outdoor Education sessions”
“I really enjoyed the hands on play/ learning sessions”
“I had never thought of building a den in the garden using material, pegs etc. I will definitely take this forward.”
Abbeyfield Visits
We recently had some visits to our local nursing home, Abbeyfield House. The children and residents played games and sang songs together.
Nativity Rehearsals
Our Nativity rehearsals are now underway and the children have been blasting out their favourite songs.
We look forward to our performance on Tuesday 17th December.
Please help us by practising the songs at home.
Visiting the Building Site
Recently, some of us visited the site of our new building. We learned all about site safety from Ivor and Honor Goodsite, the safety mascots.
We even had a go on one of the excavators.
Sports Day
We had a really successful sports day on Friday. Kerry Comerford, active sports co-ordinator, and the primary 7 sports leaders from OLM primary organised the event.
Community Engagement
This year we have developed particularly strong community links with Asda, Newton Mearns. Leigh Hamilton regularly engages with us and supports our children’s learning through a range of experiences including baking, creative, planting and gardening.
ECO day
Last Saturday we had a very successful ECO day. Staff, families and friends all mucked in to ensure our garden looks its best. Bark and stones were spread in Toadstool Tales, a bottle top mosaic was produced, the sand pit filled, vegetable plots weeded, cable drums painted, flowers planted, strimming and power washing carried out and many more jobs. A huge thank you to everyone who helped. 
British Science Week
We have been celebrating British Science Week. Have you been taking part in our daily science challenges? Each day this week we have been displaying a challenge on our plasma screen (in the corridor) and sharing this on Twitter for you and your child to carry out at home. Why not take a photo or send a tweet to let us know how you have got on.
Our Family Fun Bags this week contain the items needed to carry out Friday’s challenge. We had a great time trying this out this week!
We have been experimenting with a Balloon Rocket. The children followed the instructions had a countdown.
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 … 🚀🚀🚀#BritishScienceWeek pic.twitter.com/Pbxix0Uivg— GlenwoodFamilyCentre (@GlenwoodFC) March 13, 2019
We are having a picnic!
We love to have pretend picnics in the quiet room… so we decided to have a real one! We wrote invitations to invite our friends and we had lots of preparations to do. 
We made bunting to decorate the room.
We planned our menu. 
Once we decided what we wanted to eat we made shopping lists and will be visiting the shops to purchase what we need.
We can’t wait to have our picnic!
Fairtrade
Our Children’s Committee met recently to discuss what we can do for Fairtrade Fortnight. They created a mind map of ideas.
The children decided to use some Fairtrade ingredients to bake banana cup cakes. We followed a recipe and we had lots of measuring and weighing to do.
The cup cakes tasted yummy! We thought it would be a great idea to sell the ingredients in our Family Fun Bags to allow everyone the chance to make Fairtrade banana cup cakes at home.
Come and Join Us
We are starting monthly sessions of Bookbug and Musicality (Literacy through music) for parents and their Glenwood children. Please come along and join us. Let us know if you can manage to allow us to organise the children.
- Monday 18th February 2.00pm- 2.30pm- Musicality
- Thursday 21st February 10.00am- 10.30am- Musicality
- Monday 4th March 2.00pm- 2.30pm- Bookbug
- Thursday 7th March 10.00am- 10.30am- Bookbug
- Monday 18th March 2.00pm- 2.30pm- Musicality
- Thursday 21st March- 10.00am- 10.30am- Musicality
- Monday 15th April 2.00pm- 2.30pm- Bookbug
- Thursday 18th April 10.00am- 10.30am- Bookbug
- Monday 29th April 2.00pm- 2.30pm- Musicality
- Thursday 2nd May 10.00am- 10.30am- Musicality
- Monday 13th May 2.00pm- 2.30pm- Bookbug
- Thursday 16th May 10.00am- 10.30am- Bookbug
Puppets
We are continuing to develop our literacy through puppets. We decided to make our puppet theatre even more inviting and we used the internet to see what traditional puppet theatres look like. We also searched for more ways to make puppets and decided to make sock puppets.
If you would like to make a sock puppet at home, look out for our Family Fun Bags on sale this week and containing all you will need to make a puppet.
Chinese New Year
We have enjoyed some Chinese food for snack this week as part of our celebrations for the Chinese New Year.
“I don’t like the noodles but I like the rice.” Naomi.
“It’s good and yummy.” Marnie.
“I don’t like the stir fry. My daddy likes stir fry.” Euan.
“Lovely. I want some more. It’s delicious. I don’t like the corn.” Matthew.
Building castles
We had some cardboard boxes in the construction area and decided to use them to create castles. We worked together to plan, design and create our castles. We decided our castles would need turrets, windows, a drawbridge and a flag. We used cutting, writing and creative skills to create and decorate our castles.
Birdwatch
We are taking part in RSPB’ Big Birdwatch. https://www.rspb.org.uk/get-involved/activities/birdwatch/
We made tasty bird cakes to entice birds into our garden. 
We prepared a birdhide to allow us to watch the birds without being seen. We have been reading books to help us identify the birds which visit our garden. We spotted a big magpie from the playroom window.
Snack time
We are all involved in planning and preparing our snacks. We are supported to make healthy choices and we have fresh fruit and vegetables each day.
We set the table and prepare the food and drinks.
Last week we made clootie dumpling for snack as part of our Burns celebrations.
Today we made our own salad sandwiches. We put spread on our bread and chose our salad filling.
Pantosaurus-The Underwear Rule
The underwear rule is a simple way that parents can help keep their child safe from abuse. Talking PANTS teaches children important messages, like their body belongs to them and they should tell an adult if they’re upset or worried. NSPCC offers further advice.
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/underwear-rule/
