Thankfully the sun shone and we were able to have our Commonwealth Sport’s Day on Thursday 19th June. Â The event ran smoothly and all children from primary 1 to 7 competed in teams from the Commonwealth. Â The children participated in potted sports and then ran running races. Â The results were:
First- New Zealand
Second- Bahamas and Botswana
Third – Australia
Well done to all the winners!
Over the past 6 weeks some children from primary 5 and 6 have been participating in North Lanarkshire’s Bikability 1 programme.  The children have developed their skills and confidence in cycling and enjoyed the fun weekly sessions. Pamela Ferrie from North Lanarkshire’s Road Safety Team  visited the school on the 10th June to carry out the assessments and all the children received a certificate and badge.  Well done everyone!
On Thursday 5th June the primary 1 and 1/2 class went on their school trip to Kelburn Castle in Largs! Â Lots of excited children and adults left a wet and windy Newarthill looking forward to a day of fun and adventure. Â The children took part in a Gruffalo Hunt, visited the colourful Kelburn Castle, explored The Secret Garden and ran wild in the play barn! Â A great day was had by all! Â The highlight for the P1 class was meeting Nina from the TV programme, Nina and the Neurons! Â Have a look at our fantastic pictures!!!
Over the past few weeks the children have been collecting food for the charity Basics Food Bank within Lanarkshire. Â David Shaw from the organisation attended the school on Friday 6th June to collect the items and thank the children personally for their support of the charity. Â The collection was organised by the children from the Citizenship and Charity Committee. Â Many thanks to all who contributed.
The pupils of Keir Hardie took part in a wide range of activities throughout the fortnight to do their bit for their own wellbeing and the environment. As well as learning lots of valuable skills and knowledge the children had lots of fun!! The programme included gardening and planting vegetables, healthy cooking, litter picking, safety talks from the fire service and the police, health talks from ‘Landed’ and the dental nurse and many sporting activities such as table tennis, basketball, football and dance! Many thanks to all the outside agencies who helped manke our health week possible.
Have a look at a selection of photographs from over the two weeks.
Our health fortnight began on Monday and the children have been participating in a wide range of activities linked to health and wellbeing. Â On Tuesday all classes took part in a Tae-Kwon-Do taster session. Â The children enjoyed learning some self defence moves and were faced with some fitness challenges. Â Primary 7 visited Brannock High on Tuesday afternoon to take part in fitness testing organised by the PE department. Â On Wednesday many classes and the nursery children took part in a dance taster session. Â Every day we have been running a Walking Bus and I’m pleased to say that we are seeing more and more people joining us! Â This will continue next week.
The primary 5’s ‘Tooty Fruity’ enterprise topic is going from strength to strength. Â The sales are great and feedback on the smoothies and healthy bars are very positive. Â Let’s hope that business continues to boom next week!
Health and Wellbeing fortnight will begin on Monday 19th May until Friday 30th May. During these weeks the children will be involved in a wide range of activities that will encourage them to be healthier and safer. Â Primary 1/2 launched our health fortnight today at assembly by telling the school what being healthy means to them and sang a song called the ‘Healthy Living’ song!
Have a look at some of the activities we will be involved in during health fortnight:
Keep checking the blog to see pictures from our health fortnight!
On Tuesday 13th  and Wednesday 14th May we welcomed 27 hard working boys and girls to our school for their primary 1 induction days.  The children participated in a range of different activities throughout the two day visit, including having lunch in the cafeteria! They had the opportunity to meet their P7 buddy and explored the school and playground. Lots of fun was had by all and I’m sure there will be lots of tired boys and girls in Newarthill tonight!  We look forward to welcome you all back again in August!
This year our Spring Fayre was held on Saturday 22ns March. Â It was a great success. Â We had a great turn out with many great stalls including the nail hair, temporary tattoos, the bouncy castle, a sweetie shop, beat the goalie, arts and crafts, tombola, raffles, balloon modelling and many other stalls.
Everyone who attended the event thoroughly enjoyed themselves.  We raised over £2000 and all the money raised will go towards school funds.  We would like to thank the Parent Council and the teachers who organised  the events and helped out on the day.
Written by Eva, Abigail and Teri (Primary 7)
On Friday 21st of March the pupils participated in numerous sports activities to raise money for Sport Relief.  These included Zumba with Miss Melvin, Beat the Goalie, Wii activities, Sports Quizzes, outdoor activities and a poster competition. We also sold healthy energy bars and fruit smoothies.  All of the teachers helped throughout the day and it was a great success.  Thank you also to the Citizenship and Charity Committee who help organise the day.  As a school we raised £150!! Many thanks to all who contributed.
