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16 March, 2015

Fundraising Art Competition

Dear Parent/Carer,

Our Active Schools Coordinator, Fraser, is hoping to visit Malawi in September and he needs our help with fundraising.

The pupil council came up with a plan to run an art competition across the whole school to raise money, to have fun and also for the chance to win a fantastic art set.

The theme is African animals and entries can be done in pen, pencil, paint, crayon or collage as long as they are no bigger than the A4 entry paper.

Pupils can buy their entry paper for 50p per sheet, and can enter as many times as they like. There will be one prize for each floor. Entries have to be returned by Wednesday the 25^th March.

All entries should have the pupil’s full name and class marked clearly on the back of the paper.

The pupil council will judge the competition and the names of the 3 winners will be announced during our ACE assembly on Friday 27^th March, which is also the Dress Down Day. Pupils will be encouraged to wear red, green or black clothes this day, as this is the colours of the Malawi flag. The charge for this will be £1.

Thank you in advance for your support for this worthwhile cause,

Miss Laird and the Pupil Council.

13 March, 201513 March, 2015

Last week of clubs for the term

Sadly this week is the last week of clubs for the term. We have had loads of fun and have been working really hard in all of our clubs learnng new things.

In Scratch we made animations about Scotland and some of us even got to add our voices on to the project to make it more interesting.

In Kodu we have been working on our game making skills because after the Easter break we are going to be making our games to enter into the KoduKup competition.

Finally our Friday computing club have been learning magic this term while also learning about computing at the same time. We have loved doing these magic tricks and it was great getting to show the whole school at assembly what we had been learning. We are looking forward to next term already and what it may bring us.

9 March, 201513 March, 2015

Club update

We have been very busy over the past couple of weeks. In Scratch club we are now ready to add in some voice overs to our Scottish animation that we have been working on we look forward to sharing them soon.

In Kodu club we have been perfecting our game making skills this is because after Easter we are going to be entering into a competition called the KoduKup and we are going to have to design our own game. Last year we were lucky enough to get one team through to the final and we hope we can repeat this again this year.

Fridays are still magic in our club we are continually learning about computing without computers and it has been great fun. We now know 3 tricks that we confidently perform and we understand how they relate to computing.

26 February, 201527 February, 2015

Malawi Fundraising

Dear Parent/ Carer

Fraser Gilmour, our Active Schools Coordinator is one of a group of people going to Malawi this year, representing the city and helping the children in Malawi. Malawi Leaders of Learning (MLOL) has been established to improve education in Glasgow and Malawi. It is a project and Scottish partnership that has been forged between the council’s education services and Malawi’s South West Education Division. It’s a two-way charity and development scheme aimed at sharing good practice, resources and teaching expertise between the two countries and ultimately improve the quality of learning and teaching in a challenging environment. Fraser has to raise funds to pay for his travel and has asked all the schools in the Learning Community to help. Fraser is responsible for organising Sport and Physical Activity sessions in Royston and he has been successful each year in securing Lottery Funding for Lunchtime and After School coaching. This is why all the clubs are free. The money Fraser secures pays the coaches, and we feel that we want to support and help him fund his trip to Malawi.

We will be organising fundraising events in the coming months and all money raised will go to Fraser to help fund his trip. As you know, through our Healthy Fruit Tuckshop, Malawi is supported, as the beneficiary from our profits. This is another way we are supporting Malawi, as well as Fraser.

Fraser’s contact details are below if you would like to find out more about the project or you would like to get involved with the fundraising.

E-Mail: FGilmour@smithycroft-sec.glasgow.sch.uk

S Kelly
Headteacher

20 February, 201520 February, 2015

Computing Club is Magic

We have been very busy at our clubs over the past couple of weeks. Our Scratch club has been working on short animations about Scotland – our topic in school. We are going to record some sounds to add on to our animations and look forward to showing them off when they are finished.

Our Scottish animations

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