Category Archives: Pupils
National Galleries Scotland – Your Art World
Welcome to Your Art World
We are really excited to announce the launch of National Galleries Scotland’s Your Art World!
Three of our talented and very articulate pupils were selected to form part of a special artistic steering group at Scotland’s most prestigious National Galleries.
Art Club is a new network for 5-18 year olds across Scotland, to develop and celebrate their creativity through visual arts. Every term they will post a new set of art challenges designed by children, for children. The aim is to inspire you to think, wonder, make and share your art in National Galleries Scotland’s online gallery. It could be 2D, 3D, film, animation, performance, writing or anything else you can think of.
Our pupils have taken part in workshops with the Galleries’ Artists and have now set the nation an Art challenge! No mean feat! This term, they focussed on “Words. What can they make us feel, see, create?”
The launch is now live! Click on the links below to see our confident, articulate pupils challenge the country to create. You can also watch some professional artists respond.
Can these talented pupils challenge you and your family? We’d love to see what you create in response!
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/learn/your-art-world/question-challenge-spring-2021
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/learn/your-art-world/word-challenge-summer-2021
Winners alert!
We are very proud to announce that we have two Winners who took part in The National Galleries of Scotland Art Competition for Schools 2020.
All winning Art works will be exhibited at The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Both our winners Patrick (P6) and Riley (now S1 at St. Luke’s) can be found in the Primary 4-7 Section. This is indeed an incredible achievement for our pupils to have their work recognised by one of Scotland’s most prestigious Art Awards.
You can book a slot to see their work displayed in the gallery at the link below.
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/features/national-galleries-scotland-art-competition-schools-and-families
What we love about school
Our P1 class of 2019/20 shared some of the things they love about being St. Mark’s pupils. We know that they are going to be fabulous role models for all of the boys and girls who will join us in August.
Read Aloud 2020
This week kicks off Read Aloud 2020- a celebration of children’s reading.
This years theme ‘Get Caught Reading’ will see the pupils at St. Mark’s trying to get caught 20 times over the week to complete a special bookmark and earn house points!
We will be on the lookout in school and need your help at home too! If you catch reading, tick off the bookmark or even better- get a picture caught in the act! Don’t forget to post it on twitter and tag @StMarksPrimary1 as well using the hashtag #getcaughtreading!
We look forward to lots of catching this week!
Places to Play
Come along and enjoy some play time with your family and take part in some activities including den building, tig games and art with nature.
We are running some places to play sessions in various areas in Barrhead, see information below:
| Venue | Day | Date | Times |
| Cowan Park (meet at band stand) | Wednesday | 28th August 2019 | 4.00-6.00pm |
| Dunterlie RC (Meet at resource centre) | Thursday | 19th September 2019 | 5.30-7.30pm |
| ABC Park (Aurs Dr, meet at play park) | Saturday | 21st September 2019 | 12 noon to 2.00pm |
Come along to any of the sessions, enjoy the outdoors and have some fun.
Parents/carers must stay with the children!
Please wear outdoor clothing and feel free to bring a snack
For any more information contact:
Kerry Cameron – Community Worker
Tel No: 0141 577 3099
Email: Kerry.cameron@eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk
Look forward to seeing you!
Auchenback Get Together
Free Activities
This month’s theme is:
Safety at home and in the community
See a fire engine, have a chat with a Community Warden and enjoy free refreshments.
Arthurlie Family Centre (Harry Burns), Auburn Drive Wednesday 21 August
4:30pm – 5:30pm
Kerry Cameron (Community Worker) 0141 577 3099 / 07788643626
Aye Mind- Mental Health & Wellbeing
We were lucky enough to have Frankie, one of our St. Mark’s Parents come in during our Health week to talk with P5-P7 about the importance of mental health and wellbeing. Pupils were asked to think about what they would do if they were sad, worried, anxious and ways in which they can help others who feel that way.
The pupils then created posters, GIFs and even stop motion animations to share their thoughts.
SmartSTEM free family event
SmartSTEMs are very excited to announce we are supporting the first Insp-Hire Event hosted by Nine Twenty on Saturday the 14th of September at Glasgow Caledonian University.
Come along and help up spread the word by sharing with – Colleague’s, students, friends, family and your school network.
Insp-Hire is an initiative geared towards targeting parents or guardians of children and young people (age 4-14) to learn about industry 4 and how this will impact their children.
We have inspirational speakers including Gillian Docherty from Data Lab, an amazing interactive exhibition space with virtual reality, digital twinning, 3D printers, electric vehicles and more plus 10 workshops where both parent and child can interact together to learn to solve a cyber security attack, code Lego and build your own Fitbit to name a few.
We have a routes to success area which shows the different paths you can take to reach your goals along with soft skills sessions.
On top of this, there will be a food and drink arena showcasing some of Scotland’s finest food and drink manufacturers with brief presentations on how their products are made.
To top it all off….this event is FREE of charge and a great day out for families.
Sign up to attend here https://insp-hire.eventbrite.co.uk
Kind Regards
Team SmartSTEMs
#CollabIsKey
#InspHire
Play Live Day!
Just to remind pupils, parents & carers that today is Play Live Day.
We’re combining National Numeracy Day with Digital Learning Week. Come to the hall to take part in an Education City Play Live Family Event! We’ll use iPads and ChromeBooks to test out our mental maths skills.
Today, 3- 3.30pm
Digital Technology Day!
It’s National Digital Learning week 2019!
To celebrate at St. Mark’s, we started our week with a digital technology learning day where all pupils were able to come down to the hall and get some hands on experience of using different equipment across the curriculum!
All pupils enjoyed using the technology and explaining how it could help them with their learning in different subjects!
Throughout the week, pupils will be encouraged to consider and reflect on how digital technology helps our learning.
At home you could join in the discussion if you use any digital technology in your home or work!
#ercndlw19
St. Mark’s Summer Fayre
Bring it to win it!
EAST RENFREWSHIRE DYSLEXIA PARENTS GROUP MAY 2019
Parents, Pupils and Teachers
Are welcome to our
OPEN MEETING
Thursday 9th May 2019
Dyslexia Scotland 01786 446650
www.dyslexiascotland.org.uk
Helpline phone number: 0344 800 84 84
helpline@dyslexiascotland.org.uk
Dyslexia Scotland is a company registered by guarantee.
Registered in Scotland No 153321 Charity No SC 000951
Resilience
by Ainsley McGoldrick
7.15pm-8.15pm Mearns Castle High School, Newton Mearns G77 5GU
http://www.dyslexiascotland.org.uk/your-branch/glasgow-east-ren
Walking Wednesday Reminder
‘Walking Wednesdays’ will start this Wednesday 13th.
Come along and meet us at St John’s Parish at 7:55am for the Lenten service at 8am.
We will then walk to school and enjoy some tasty hot chocolate on arrival.
All welcome.
Healthy Minds For Children
Healthy Minds for children
Tuesday 12th March
1.45pm
Family room
Join us for a cuppa and a chat about how to keep our children happy and healthy!
Parent Workshop Seasons For Growth
Seasons for Growth is a small group programme that focusses on issues such as self-esteem, managing feelings, problem solving, decision making, effective communication and support networks.
If you wish to find out more about the programme then please join me at our Parent workshop on Monday 4th March at 1:30pm in St Marks Family room.
Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided!
Mrs Nelson.
For more info, click here: parent workshop seasons poster.
World Thinking Day
World thinking Day is tomorrow 23rd February 2019
To celebrate, pupils are invited to wear uniforms from Brownies, Cubs etc.
Read Aloud Launch
Read Aloud is a month of events to increase awareness of Reading Recovery and allow all those children who have been participating an opportunity to celebrate their achievements in literacy and become role models for others.
To celebrate the launch of Read Aloud, St. Mark’s pupils attended a very special event at the Barrhead Foundry Library today with important guests and lots of children from across East Renfrewshire schools.
The children’s challenge this week is to read at least 20 book as ….
READING IS MY SUPERPOWER!
This was kicked off by the children reading their favourite books to each other!
Next week we will attend the Barrhead Foundry Library again on Wednesday 20th of February, 9.30am to read to David Currie from the BBC.
On Thursday 21st of February, we will read to the children of Arthurlie Family Centre at 10am
And to close our week, we would like to invite any parents/carers into our family room on Friday 22nd February at 2.45pm for tea, biscuit and a good read!
Free Swimming Lessons at the Foundry
Free Swimming Lessons
from ages 5 to 12
These free lessons will be taught by probationary teachers, hoping to pass their swimming qualification and become qualified swimming instructors and gain employment with ERCLT.
If interested, simply come along to the Barrhead Foundry and register (You do not need to be already attending swimming lessons)
Please see all the dates for lessons below:
| 24/02/2019 Sun 1.00-1.30 | 24/02/2019 Sun 1.30-2.00 | 24/02/2019 Sun 2.00-2.30 | 24/02/2019 Sun 2.30-3.00 |
| 09/03/2019 Sat 10.00-10.30 | 09/03/2019 Sat 10.30-11.00 | 09/03/2019 Sat 11.00-11.30 | 09/03/2019 Sat 11.30-12.00 |
| 10/03/19 Sun 1.00-1.30 | 10/03/19 Sun 1.30-2.00 | 10/03/19 Sun 2.00-2.30 | 10/03/19 Sun 2.30-3.00 |
| 16/03/19 Sat 10.00-10.30 | 16/03/19 Sat 10.30-11.00 | 16/03/19 Sat 11.00-11.30 | 16/03/19 Sat 11.30-12.00 |
| 17/03/19 Sun 1.00-1.30 | 17/03/19 Sun 1.30-2.00 | 17/03/19 Sun 2.00-2.30 | 17/03/19 Sun 2.30-3.00 |
| 30/03/19 Sat 10.00-10.30 | 30/03/19 Sat 10.30-11.00 | 30/03/19 Sat 11.00-11.30 | 30/03/19 Sat 11.30-12.00 |
| 31/03/19 Sun 1.00-1.30 | 31/03/19 Sun 1.30-2.00 | 31/03/19 Sun 2.00-2.30 | 31/03/19 Sun 2.30-3.00 |
