Month: June 2019

Today we had lots of fun at our sports day!! In the morning, we got to try lots of different sports and activities at the ‘come and try’ sessions.  Some of these included netball, cricket, Highland games, HIIT workout, yoga, karate and water activities.

 

After lunch, the traditional races started and our parents arrived.  We took part in the egg and spoon race and the sack race which were really fun.  Unfortunately, it started pouring with rain and we had to go back inside.  We were all soaked!!  The rest of the races will be rescheduled to another day.

This term we have been learning about Magnus MacFarlane Barrow.  He is the founder of Mary’s Meals which is a charity that provides children with a daily meal in their place of education.  Mary’s Meals work in countries all over the world to try and beat poverty and ensure that children attend school so that they have the chance of a better future.  

Another project the charity do is the backpack appeal.  This is where they collect backpacks filled with useful items and send them to children in developing countries who have never had a backpack.

We decided we wanted to help and so organised the backpack appeal in our school.  We advertised the project and wrote to parents asking them if they could donate any backpacks or useful items to us.

When we had gathered everything in, we had to sort it all.  We separated all the items into groups and were very pleased by the amount of donations we received.  At first, it was hard to work with other people to organise but we got there 🤪😂

After everything was sorted, we then began to put the items into the backpacks, making sure that there was an equal amount in each backpack.

Thank you to everyone who donated.  These backpacks will change the life of the child who receives it.

We were lucky enough to be invited to The Tramway to take part in a Question and Answer session with people who work in The Citizens Theatre.  The session started by us asking each employee questions which they could only answer yes or no to and we had to guess their job from their answer.  This was really fun but quite hard.

After this, we had the chance to speak to each employee for 5 minutes and ask any questions we had about their job.  We also got to see any tools they use in their job.  This was interesting and it gave us more of an understanding of the jobs.

This was a fantastic opportunity for us to get to know more about the jobs we could do in the theatre.  We also learned what school subjects would be useful in the jobs, like English, Maths and Graphic Design.

We took part in the cricket festival at Clydesdale Cricket Club last week.  We competed against other schools in several games, putting out bowling, batting and fielding skills to the test.

Over the past couple of months, we have worked hard at cricket club on a Monday after school to get better at our cricket skills.  This hard work paid off as we played very well in each of our games.

Zack was very encouraging and gave us all a motivational speech and reminded us of the tactics we should be using to win.  Thanks Zack!

We won every match and won in our group.  We also won the entire festival overall as we had the most points.  Woohoo!!

 

This week we have taken on our first role as the Primary 7 of the school.  We met the nursery children who will be our new P1s.

It was so exciting to meet all the new children.  They were VERY cute and were excited to be at school.  We played with them and showed them where things are.

We loved making new little friends!

One girl made us laugh by pretending she was the teacher and Abeeha was her pupil!!