Author: Mrs Brown

What a great time at the Super Table today. Treats all round for children chosen by our House Captains and Vice Captains each week.Look out for other children next Friday.

We were delighted to have Valerie Sim from Scripture Union with us telling us all about well-known mottos and what we can learn about ourselves from them. We also learned of out an important blind hymn writer Frances Crosby. Her motto was to “decide to be content”. She worked with the homeless and hungry and died 100 years ago having written lots if famous hymns.

The children are all really excited and ready to perform. First stage is over with floor routine. All performed very well indeed and raring to go for the vault.

Our P3/4 class welcomed parents and grandparents this afternoon to join in their Daffodil tea. The children performed poems and a song about spring and sold Daffodils and Easter chocolates. All money raised this afternoon will go to Marie Curie Cancer Research. Thank you to everyone who supported the pupils and well done to P3/4 and Miss Taylor.

The dinner hall was swaying to the sound of a Zumba class this morning. Lots of fun for P1/2

We had a super time at the Airdrie Football Festival on Friday. The team played well together and although it was cold and windy (due to the solar eclipse, not that we could see it!) everyone had great fun.

P3/4 to P7 had a very ingesting talk from Stuart who works with the Project Trust. He told us all about being a Global Citizen and that we should play our part in using our worlds resources ‘sustainably’. He also told us about making sure we play our part in Fairtrade which is something we have all been thinking about over that last week or so as it is Fairtrade Fortnight. I have some questions for you about yesterday’s talk, see how many you can answer and I will post the correct answers next week:)
1 How many litres of water do we use in a week?
2 How many people cannot get access to good quality water?
3 Which city was the example given about how water is not being used well?
4 How does this affect other countries?
5 Across the world what are some of the ways water is not used well?
6 Why are people in Namibia using water well?
7 What can we do to help?

Lets see how you get on…

Our House Captains organised their first Super Table by nominating children who show excellent manners and behaviour in the dinner hall. Everyone really enjoyed it and felt very special! We all wonder who will be at the Super Table next week?

In  today’s assembly we learned how to prevent germs spreading from P2 who recently did an investigation. It surprised us how quickly glitter ‘germs’ spread and we will all try to wash our hands more!

David from the Lanarkshire Foodbank came to visit us today and collect the cheque for over £110 donated at the P3 Nativity. We were also delighted to present him with a cheque from all our staff who had raised over £200 by not sending Christmas Cards or buying presents for each other but giving this money to help others instead. We know this will be put to good use in our local community.