Holy Cross Primary School

CURAMUS

April 24, 2019
by Mrs Marletta
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Poetry competition- “Glasgow Smiles”

We could not be prouder of our Primary 7 poets. Here is the winning entry, enjoy!

 

Glasgow Smiles

Glasgow oh Glasgow what a welcoming place

Come to us for a warm embrace

Sectarianism gone, we’ve moved on

We’re united – our new dawn

Where everyone’s free, no matter the race

We’ve got all from every faith.

 

If you want to learn our History

People’s Palace is the place to be

And have a wee nosey doon by the Clyde

That’s our river glistening with pride

Wave at the Duke with the cone on his head

Discover oor secrets, much more to be said.

 

Cultural food from across the world

Divine dishes to be devoured

Noo, help yourself to a tattie scone

A roll and fritter from the Blue Lagoon?

Shortbread, samosas, haggis, scotch pies

Food a’ dancing before your eyes

The pakora’s finished! I should have known

Not to worry, Irn Bru lives on!

 

So come take a walk doon our Glesga streets

Loads of people to meet and greet

Cause there’s mair to us that meets the eye

And this is where your adventure lies

‘People make Glasgow’ you hear us say

We’ve got a point – by the way!

April 17, 2019
by gw15gallacherclaire1@glow
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SSPCA visit P2/1 🐰

The Easter Bunny came early to P2/1 in the form of these cute little rabbits 🐰. The rabbits were, in fact, toys brought along by the SSPCA to educate us about the importance of looking after and protecting pets and wildlife. Animals require a lot of care and attention. It is important that we protect them and know to contact the SSPCA if we see an animal who is hurt or in danger.

March 27, 2019
by Miss O'Neill
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Lots of fun at Botanic Gardens 🌳

As we were the Class of the Month winners for March, we visited the Botanic Gardens today.

We explored Kibble Palace and the gardens. We went on a hunt to find different plants and statues.

We then spent the rest of the morning rolling down hills and climbing trees. We became adventurers and were so so happy.

Thank you to our parent helpers who enjoyed the morning with us!  

 

 

Playing with sounds

March 27, 2019 by Mrs Marletta | 0 comments

This term, Primary 1 families were invited to take part in another Family Learning Club. The focus for this club was ‘Playing with Sounds’. This is an initiative to involve parents in playing games that will reinforce early literacy skills. Our main focus over the course of these sessions was to reinforce and further develop children’s phonological awareness.

Phonological awareness is the ability to hear and play with the sounds of spoken language. It is an essential skill that is the foundation for developing reading and spelling skills.  It is an aural skill so there are plenty of fun opportunities to reinforce this skill which don’t involve writing or reading.

The reason these sessions are game based is primarily to make them fun for all of you and not feel like an additional task or chore to complete. Playing games at home can increase a child’s confidence and social skills, boost their brain power and memory and develop their language skills.

Over the course of the sessions we explored the ‘Playing with Sounds’ games and you were able to take these home to continue the learning at home. We also played a number of rhyming and sounds based games to give you further opportunity to develop phonological awareness. The children particularly enjoyed the rhyming games and requested that the activities are even harder for next time! The biggest thing they all agreed on in their feedback was that they loved having their parents in school and that having you here helped them to learn. Thank you so much for coming a long and supporting these sessions.

Within the take home games there were suggestions for a ‘Chat Together’ time. I have listed some of the ideas from Chat together below so that you can continue the family learning fun even without the packs. If you weren’t able to make the Family Learning sessions, the ideas  below are very simple but effective ways to reinforce your child’s phonological awareness and a fun way to boost their literacy skills. Have a try at home and let us know how you get on.

Chat together ideas

Sing nursery rhymes and songs

Miss words out from nursery rhymes and songs and wait for your child to finish the line.

Play ‘”I spy with my little eye” using initial sounds e.g. ” I spy with my little eye something beginning with p”. Change it up to make it harder, ” I spy with my little eye something ending in p”.

Play ” I hear with my little ear something that rhymes with star”  e.g. car

Read rhyming books to your children – the local library will be well stocked but you will also find examples  in the Bookbug bags you’ve collected over the years.

Practise sounding out 3 syllable words- use objects you can show them around the house. Build it into your routine i.e. as you wash the dishes, hold up a baking tray and ask them to count the syllables e.g ba(1)- king(2) tray (3) so three syllables. 

When you are reading a story to your child, say some of the words in individual phonemes e.g. The f-o-x saw the chickens in the farmyard. Ask your child which word it was.

When you are reading stories together, ask your child where they hear certain sounds in words. Take turns to do this. If you were reading Farmer Duck, ask you child: Where do you hear the d in duck? Or ask, what sound do you hear at the start/middle/end of duck?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

March 26, 2019
by Miss Greene
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SPCA visit P7

Last Friday P7 had a visit from the SPCA. We were learning about Animal Safety and worked on our team building skills by working together in groups to build a robot,which we then programmed with tablets to make them move. So cool!

 

March 25, 2019
by Mrs Crossan
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Tasty fruit kebabs

In Primary 2a we got to make lovely fruit kebabs. As well as having fun the children got to reinforce their fraction work. They are ready to write the instructions tomorrow.

March 25, 2019
by Miss Smith
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SSPCA P7A

Primary 7A had the privilege of the SSPCA coming into our class to tell us all about the work that they do with all wonderful animals. We were then given the opportunity to work in groups put together a robot animal and control it from an electronic device.

 

The children understood by the end the important message which is that this robot is very different from normal pets as you cannot turn them off, the need care around the clock. We had a blast getting the robots to make noises and move around!

 

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March 22, 2019
by Miss Collins
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SSPCA

Primary 5C had a wonderful visit from the SSPCA today. We worked in teams to build and program Rhu the Rabbit.

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