In St Luke’s Cluster we nurture every child’s unique God given talents to enable them to flourish in a climate of high expectations, innovation and creativity.
Whole School Homework
This week’s whole school homework has a Health and Wellbeing focus. Many of the activities below are self explanatory.
Click the links below for more information about SHANARRI and Rights of the Child.
St. Luke’s Sport Leaders
This week is our last session with the St. Luke’s Sports Leaders. We have really enjoyed the activities they have been planning for us. Miss Mckay has also learned some new games!
Scottish Assembly
Well done to all our volunteers!
Friday Activities
The lunch hall will be serving a Burn’s Day menu in the 24th January. 
Scottish themed Friday Afternoon
Activities including –
Making our own tartans using a paper weaving technique
Creating a thistle using collage technique
Steven Brown inspired highland cows focusing on colour and line techniques
Scottish Assembly – 30th January 2019
Following a request by pupils, on Wednesday some pupils will be sharing some Scottish dance, poetry and music at assembly. If you would like to attend this assembly it will begin at 2pm.
Many pupils in Primary 2B have volunteered to sing a song. They will be singing Katie Bairdie .
See the link below should they wish to practise at home https://soundcloud.com/scottishbooktrust/4-katie-bairdie
This week, pupils have also written their own versions of Katie Bairdie.
Whole School Homework – First Minister’s Reading Challenge
This week the whole school homework focuses on the First Minister’s Reading Challenge. The blue booklets were handed out in Aug/Sept and should be updated regularly. This week they will go home to be updated with any recent books completed. These books should be returned to school by Friday.
There is also some suggestions of way to engage your child in reading out side of school. 
Read, Write, Count Primary 2 bags
In November Primary 2 visited the Foundry, where they received yellow bags with 3 reading books, numeracy games and a note pad.
Please let us know what you thought by filling out the Parent survey: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/PXCWGJ2
The prize draw for parents is a personal Read Write Count GOODIE BAG filled with books, games and activities for all the family to enjoy.
The deadline to complete this is Monday 4 March 2019.
Atrium
In the atrium this week we provided opportunities to explore natural resources as well as using sand, water and construction materials. Over the next few weeks we hope to rebuild our loose part materials collection. We will be looking for all sorts so look out for a letter for Mrs Carwood.
Physical Education
As we progress through our gymnastics focus in PE we have been working on rolls. This week we have been working on different rolls including forward rolls.
Have you heard about St. Mark’s awesome Early Bird club?
The FREE Early Bird Club runs every morning from 8.00 am until the start of school, 8.45 am.
The Early Bird Club is a great way to start the school day, where the children have the opportunity to do a range of activities such as
The club is completely free and open to everyone and you can even have some breakfast.
It super easy to come along, enter through the gym hall door, sign in and then join in the fun. If you would like more information contact the school office.
This week we started our block with St. Luke’s Sports Leaders.
Whole School Homework
This week’s optional whole school homework is a creative competition. If you are interested in taking part see the link below.
Creative Competition Flyer 2019
The competition is part of the Show Racism the Red Card campaign and encourages all participants to demonstrate an anti-racism message. If you would like to take part and require any art materials please let Miss McKay know. The school will submit the entries together and therefore they should be returned by Friday.
Living Things
Pupils have been identifying living things and sprting these into catergories of their own choice. We used our ABC of talk to discuss our ideas. Animals we find in school provided a particularly interesting debate, thankfully we were all in agreement we don’t see sharks in the playground!
John the Baptist
We were delighted to be visited by Margaret Mary on Monday. She shared the bible story of Jesus’s baptism and talked with us about John the Baptist.
Welcome back to Term 2! I hope everyone had a relaxing and enjoyable winter break. Check out what we will be doing this term on the P2B information page.
This week we are working on getting back into routine at school. A new homework jotter was handed out with a new homework overview and pupils logins for Education City and Sumdog.
Pupils also have a planning sheet to talk to their families about our topics this term: Weather, Farming and Fairtrade! When planning a topic, pupils share their knowledge and ideas to ensure we provide learning opportunities which target their interests. By discussing these at home first we will be able to have a really engaging discussion in class.
Pupils Leading Learning planning sheet
We will continue to have PE on a Wednesday and Friday and I would encourage pupils to bring their kits back in as soon as possible. Remember we love PE and don’t like to miss it, so even if it’s wet or cold we try to get outside. Therefore it’s important to have suitable outdoor clothing for PE in the MUGA on a Friday.
St. Luke’s Sports Leaders will be working with Primary 2B on Monday 14th, 21st and the 28th January.
This week we also started working on Fractions and Money.
For Golden time this week, pupils could
P2b Homework – January to March
Pupils should complete their homework each night and hand it in the following morning. It should be signed by an adult.
Homework should take around 20 minutes each night. If you have any questions, please get in touch.
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Whole School Homework
In addition to Literacy and Numeracy Homework there will be opportunities throughout the term to take part in the Whole School Homework. This homework will relate to National, Local and School events such as First Ministers Reading Challenge and Fairtrade Fortnight.
