You can now keep up to date with the local weather and any additional weather warnings by clicking on the link below that will take you to the East Renfrewshire Council Weather Update Service. We will as always keep you up to date with any weather issues that may affect the school.
Wednesday 18th December– 3rd Advent Service 9.15 Parents and Carers Welcome
Thursday 19th December – Primary 1-5 Class Parties 1.20 – 3pm
Thursday 19th December – P6-7 Christmas Disco 7-8.30pm
Friday 20th December – 11am Mass, Parents and carers welcome.
Friday 20th December – 2.30pm Early Closure
This year Primary 3a were very lucky as we were treated to a special visit from Elvis the elf! Ms Stevenson kindly gave up her free time to read us an exciting story called ‘Elf on the shelf’ where we heard all about Elvis the elf and his ever watchful eyes. We were able to pass on messages to Santa through Elvis and he kindly handed out some chocolate coins, which we all enjoyed very much! Primary 3a would like to say a massive thank you to Niamh’s family for treating us to this lovely morning.
Primary 1-3 are ready for their final performance of Stable Story.
On Wednesday 11th December 4 pupils from P7 visited Erskine Hospital to hand over a cheque for £150. They raised the funds by selling glitter tattoos, toys, bracelets and knitted school hats during playtimes and lunchtimes and at the Christmas fair. On the visit they got a tour of the hospital and met some of the residents. Erskine has been caring for Scotland’s veterans since 1916; re-building shattered lives, restoring dignity and providing first-class care to ex-Service men and women. In the past year the charity has cared for 1,100 veterans.
On behalf of the pupils at St. Luke’s, a bid has been submitted to the “Elite Engineering Programme” in the hope that St Luke’s HS will win LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education EV3 STEM with resources worth £3,000 plus the chance to compete for further resources at competition level. You can find out more about it at this address http://www.eep-schools.org.uk/
The “Elite Engineering Programme” is piloting the use of the LEGO ‘machine and robot making’ equipment with 25 successful schools this year. St Luke’s HS hopes to be one of them. With the philosophy of Curriculum For Excellence courses well understood by the school, St Luke’s HS knows that these resources would be a major boost to the educational experiences they could offer their pupils.
As part of the 500 word application, St Luke’s HS has also submitted a video of S3 pupils testing their weather shelters. This task was part of several tasks during the day where pupils had to work as a team to design and create a solution to a weather related problem.
St Luke’s High School needs your help.
One criteria that will be used to measure the best entries will be the extent of our learning community’s support for the application. And that is where you come in ….
Please copy and paste the web address below, and scroll down to the St. Luke’s icon to see our video. I presented this video as “Learning and fun in perfect harmony!”
You are being asked to click the ‘thumbs up’ (like) icon to show your support for our submission.
Please send the web address to as many people as you think can support us. The more ‘likes’ we get, the better chance we have of being successful.
http://www.eep-schools.org.uk/entries/page/10/
Thank you in anticipation of your assistance
On Tuesday afternoon St Mark’s school choir performed at Silverburn to raise funds for Visibility Scotland. The choir raised an impressive £338.83. Well done to our school choir!
Follow P7’s adventure on twitter.
Librarian Visit
Yesterday we had a visit fromMary from Library Services. She told us about all the wonderful activities we can do at Barrhead Library.
Did you know children can take out 16 books when they join the library, you can order new books, you can research on the computers and we can print homework for free!
Scottish Book Week 25th – 29th November
The designs below have been chosen to represent the school this year.
Reminder that St Mark’s Christmas Fayre is tomorrow, starting at 1.15pm. No hot meals will be available, pack-snacks only will be provided for lunch from the kitchen.
We would be most grateful for any donations of home baking tomorrow morning. These can be dropped off at the school. If you are able to donate any other items for the fayre ie toys, prizes for the raffle these can also be dropped off.
We are delighted that a bike has been donated and is also being raffled in the school, tickets are available for your children to buy in school and on the day for £1.
Christmas Fayre Class Timetables are as follows
1.15-1.35 P6/7 and P1
1.40-2.00 P2 and P3
2.05-2.25 P4 and P4/5
2.30-2.50 P5a, P5b and P6
