Author: Mrs Tomney

Recently we have been successful in receiving £3000 from Education Scotland to develop outdoor PE facilities within our school.  The children within the School Improvement Committee have been actively involved in selecting appropriate equipment to develop a wide range of PE skills.  This equipment was installed on 28th January and the children are looking forward to using this within their weekly PE sessions.

Children’s Views

What we did

• Looked at Scotplay’s website and catalogue
• Considered the equipment we already had
• Looked at equipment from PE point of view – how we could use this
• Met with Mrs Tomney and decided what equipment we would purchase

The benefits of the new equipment

• It will make PE more fun
• We can use it for outdoor learning activities
• We can now do our PE lessons outside

Over the coming months each class will be using this equipment and our senior pupils will be developing challenge cards for other pupils to use.

The pictures below are of the installation process.  We will hopefully get the opportunity to use this equipment when the frost and snow disappears!

On Friday 12th December the children from the school and nursery helped raise money for the charities, Save the Children and the Ebola Disaster fund by wearing Christmas jumpers and bobbles to school.  We raised £180.  Thank you to all who contributed.

The children in primary 1 were all stars as they performed their nativity ‘What a Star’.

On Thursday 11^th December  the children in Primaries 1 to 7 performed two excellent performances of their Christmas concerts to parents and visitors. Primaries 2 to 7 performed in the musical ‘Jingle Bell Jukebox’, singing many old time Christmas favourites such as ‘Let it Snow’, ‘Frosty the Snowman’ and ‘ Jinglebell Rock’. Primary 1 gave a spectacular performance of the nativity ‘What a Star’.   The children enjoyed singing and performing in front of two sell out audiences and it has put everyone in the Christmas spirit!  Well done everyone!

We raised money for Children in Need by coming to school dressed as a ‘Hero’.  Pudsey came to visit our school.  Have a look at our pictures!

Over the past two weeks our school have been having a whole school Eco Focus.  Classes have been involved in a wide range of Eco activities including improving school grounds, recycling, litter picking, planting and a whole lot more! Throughout this time we also welcomed parents and visitors to our classrooms to become involved in the children’s learning.  Thank you to all who attended.  To finish off our Eco fortnight we held a whole school assembly for parents on Friday 7th November to give classes the opportunity to share what they had been learning with the rest of the school.  Have a look at our Eco photo gallery below!