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.
We received an email today offering free swimming lessons at the Foundry.
The lessons are for children from ages 5 to 12. You do not need to be in swimming lessons at the moment.
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.
The dates for the lessons
If you are interested in any days or times, please contact Barrhead Foundry and add the child’s name to the list.
Science
We are working on the investigating types of water. We investigate melting and freezing today. We melted ice and used ice to freeze milk. Click the link below if you would like to try this at home, with an adult.
Farmer Visit
On Thursday Sheila visited us to tell us about her life as a farmer. We found out she had 80highland cows and over 1000 sheep. We heard how she had a very busy day looking after the animals, keeping them safe and healthy.
Beat the Street
Beat the Street commences on Friday. Pupils will received their fobs on Thursday.
It’s a fun, free game that will see Barrhead and Newton Mearns transformed into a giant game! See how far you can walk, cycle and run in just 6 weeks.
Play the game from 15 February – 29 March and register to win prizes for yourself or join a team to win team leader board prizes.
For more information click the link below
https://beatthestreet.me/barrheadnewtonmearns
Primary 2 will be working with a music specialist on 14th, 21st and 28th Feb. The specialist is going to come in and do 3 sessions with each class on singing games and rhymes.
On the 28th February parents are invited to come along.
P2a 1:30 – 2:10
P2b 2:10 – 2:40
Please note that these times are estimates but it will be in the afternoon.
A letter will follow after the long weekend.
Thanks
Miss Mckay
No Whole School homework
Atrium: Imagination and Collaboration
There was lots of imaginative ideas from a skyscraper with shops and houses to magic wands and candle shops.
Health and Wellbeing
Today we continued our health and wellbeing focus of Friendship. The focus was the having more than one friend. After hearing about Twiggle’s Special Day, we worked with a partner and completed a task which involved working together and sharing.
Foundry Visit
On Tuesday we collected our new library books. Our aim is that these library books will encourage children to read for enjoyment. Every child selected their own book. Pupils were encouraged to choose a book for enjoyment which they could confidently read.
The books will be collected in March to return these to the Foundry.
PE
We are working on stretch and strength in PE. We found press ups tricky but two P6 boys kindly offered to demonstrate.
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.
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.
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