We have had such bad weather this week that the children have hardly been out playing. We did manage one snow play though! Great fun for everybody and Room 12 won the best snowman competition.
P1-3 have been very patient boys and girls while we organise their new school dinner system. Today they managed to get out to play for a wee while before coming in for lunch and then back out for a short play before the afternoon session bell rang. Hopefully next week they will get a chance to get used to our new system. Dinner numbers have increased dramatically so it is taking us a bit longer to get everyone fed, however we now have lots of children taking a school lunch for the first time. Well done boys and girls.
P4 have been looking at food – they have planned lots of investigations, they have even volunteered to come into school without breakfast to take part in memory and concentration tests – their idea! They are also going to weigh the food waste next week so we are all interested to see what they come up with, we are going to compare waste per stage and then we are going to let each class know what their average waste is. This will highlight how much food is being thrown away each week.
The upper school parts have now all been cast for our production of Alice in Wonderland – rehearsals have begun and everyone is having a great time learning their parts. Some great singing evident already – we are really looking forward to bringing all of this show together. Details of times, tickets etc will be issued later in the term.
We also have our first Pupil Voice sessions of the year today (Friday). All children in the school are now part of a group who will meet every four weeks. The purpose of this is to hear what the children have to say about a range of topics within the school. They will then report back to our whole school assembly with their suggestions and agendas. This way everyone in our school community is involved in taking the school forward.
This week coming:
Please remember that our Sacramental Meeting for parents of children in P3 and P4 will take place on Wednesday at 7:00pm. If your child is at either of these stages please make sure you come along to discuss our preparations for the forthcoming sacraments.
Also this week Primary Four will visit Glasgow Science Centre to begin their Trout in the Classroom project. Thank you to our parents who have volunteered to join us as parent helpers. Please remember to give your child a packed lunch for this visit.