The children have been learning new skills such as grating, slicing, mixing, spreading and simple knife skills. They have put their skills to good use when creating a variety of  desserts and main meals we selected together using our old school … Continue reading →

The boys thoroughly enjoyed exploring the loose parts and using their imaginations to role play and bring the parts to ‘life’. It was truly magical to observe the children using their imaginations during shared play.  

We are exploring the themes of emotions and feelings through the use of the movie, ‘Inside Out’. The children are working hard to be able to identify the different emotions that occur in every day situations and to understand that … Continue reading →

The children worked together to look through the selection of old recipe books provided from one of our lovely dinner ladies. She informed us that she followed recipes from these books in her early career in Barrhead High School. One … Continue reading →

We had such a lovely afternoon interviewing our kitchen staff. The children worked together to create appropriate questions to ask and recorded their information in an organised way. We learned a great amount about their experiences in working in school … Continue reading →

St. Mark’s are celebrating their 60th anniversary this year and we have teamed up with Treasure Island to celebrate the life of the school through the years. We will be focussing on a combination of our Health & Wellbeing and … Continue reading →

Hello parents/carers We have taken that past few weeks as time to settle back into life within the Greenhouse and to re-establish our positive relationships. The children have worked together to create a set of ‘class rules’ that they feel … Continue reading →

What a great day we had attending the cinema for our ‘Greenhouse trip’. The children travelled safely and acted very responsibly on public transport and all sat quietly and behaved superbly in the cinema. Lots of happy children were engrossed … Continue reading →

It was a beautiful and emotional day when we let our butterflies free into the big world. We have all grown so attached to them and the visual learning journey from caterpillar to butterfly has just fascinated us all. Nature … Continue reading →