Welcome to a busy Term 4
I hope that everyone had a lovely Spring Holiday and that you were able to make the most of the good weather. As I visited classes today the children were already hard at work and enjoying sharing their holiday stories with staff.
Read-a-thon
I’m delighted to be able to tell you that, so far, Literacy Week’s Read-a-thon has raised £689.70. This is a terrific amount of money. Thank you very much to everyone who contributed.
Dates for your diary
Below are a few dates for your diary. More details for each event will be issued shortly and Class Information Booklets will be sent home later this week. These will also be added to the “Getting Involved In Our School” section of this site so you can refer to them at any time.
Numeracy Day – Friday 1st May
During our Numeracy Day all classes will focus their work on aspects of Numeracy. In the afternoon parents/carers and friends of the school are invited to visit classrooms in order to see the children demonstrating some of the Numeracy work which they do in school. There will also be adult challenges and examples of how parents/carers can help their children at home.
Holiday – Monday 4th May
In-service Day – Thursday 7th May
Health Week – Week beginning Monday 18th May
During this week all classes will take part in a variety of Health and Wellbeing related activities including sport taster sessions, cooking and internet safety lessons.
Holiday – Friday 22nd May and Monday 25th May
Sports Day – Thursday 21st May, weather permitting
Parents/carers are again invited to the school to support their child/children.
Primary 7 Prom – Monday 22nd June
Primary 7 Graduation – Wednesday 24th June (afternoon)
Parents of Primary 7 children are invited to join us as we say “Goodbye” to our Primary 7s.
School Closes – Thursday 25th June at 1pm
It’s going to be another busy term filled with lots of fun and a whole lot of learning!
Mrs. Watt
Happy Easter!
We’ve had another great term at Lawmuir and I’d like to thank the pupils and staff for all their hard work and the parents/carers for their continued support. I hope you all have a lovely holiday and we’ll see you all at 9am on Monday 20th April.
Mrs. Watt
Eggs, Eggs, Eggs!
Today we have had lots of Easter fun. Most of it has involved eggs, boiled and chocolate!
We have had lots of fun in class looking at all the decorated eggs as part of our competition, teachers found it very difficult to decide on the winning design. Some classes went outside to roll their eggs in the playground to see who could roll the farthest and we have had an Easter Egg Hunt in school, if you were lucky enough to find a paper egg hidden around school then you could trade it for a chocolate one!
Here are some photos of our fun filled day. Happy Easter!
Congratulations to the winner of our Easter Egg Raffle, Kyle!
Primary 7 Fundraising
Primary 7 have been busy organising events to help fundraise for the Primary 7 Yearbook and Leavers Event.
The Bring & Buy Sale and Soak the Seven’s were great fun and money raised will be put to great use.
Bring & Buy Sale
Soak the Sevens
Easter Fun!
Literacy Week Book Quiz Answers
Congratulations to our winners of our Literacy Week Book Quiz.
Here are the answers! How many did you get correct?
Primary 1-3
1. A giant lives at the top of the beanstalk.
2. The very hungry caterpillar turned into a butterfly.
3. Mr Happy is yellow.
4. A tiger came to tea with Sophie.
5. Goldilocks visited the three bears house.
6. Mog is a cat.
7. Mice are turned into horses to pull Cinderella’s coach.
8. Thomas the Tank Engine is blue.
9. Paddington Bear’s favourite food is marmalade.
10. Katie Morag’s brother is called Liam.
Primary 4-7
1. Black Beauty was a horse.
2. Aslan is the name of the lion from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
3. The Borrowers live under the floorboards.
4. Perfect Peter is the name of Horrid Henry’s brother.
5. BFG stands for Big Friendly Giant.
6. Tintin’s dog is called Snowy.
7. The pirate from Peter Pan is called Captain Hook.
8. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie’s surname is Bucket.
9. Peter Pan’s nursemaid, Nana, was a dog.
10. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is the first Harry Potter book.
11. Eeyore is the name of the donkey in Winnie the Pooh.
12. Mary Poppins is a nanny.
13. Dorothy was trying to get to The Emerald City.
14. Matilda’s teacher is called Miss Honey.
15. The main character from Boy Racer is called Tom.
16. Jacquline Wilson is the author of the Tracey Beaker stories.
17. Paddington Bear is from Peru.
18. The Grinch stole Christmas in the Dr Seuss book.
19. The Boy in the Dress is the name of the David Walliams book.
20. The Wimpy Kid is called Greg Heffley.
Literacy Week
From Monday 23rd – Friday 27th March, pupils at Lawmuir Primary celebrated Literacy Week.
Class lessons had an extra literacy focus and this was enhanced with a host of wonderful whole school events designed to promote, Reading, Writing and Talking and Listening. Take a look at all the fun we have had!
Classroom Activities
Story Box Workshop
Storyteller
Author Visit
Book Swap
Read-a-thon
Book Fair
Dress as a Book Character Day
Family Fun Night – Quiz Answers
Here are the answers from the quiz at Family Fun Night.
How many did you get right?
General Knowledge
Question 1 – Seven colours in the rainbow.
Question 2 – Fourteen classes in Lawmuir Primary School.
Question 3 – Camels have three eyelids.
Question 4 – Earthworms have five hearts.
Question 5 – A group of Pandas is called an Embarrassment.
Guess Who
Question 6 – Tom Cruise
Question 7 – Michelle Obama
Question 8 – Clint Eastwood
Question 9 – Coleen & Wayne Rooney
Question 10 – Hugh Jackman
Fun Facts
Question 11 – False. Mrs Osbourne is the tallest teacher in the school.
Question 12 – False. An average human looses between 40 – 100 hairs from their head each day.
Question 13 – False. 10% of the world is left handed.
Question 14 – False. Dartboards are made of horse hairs.
Question 15 – False. Buckingham Palace has 775 rooms.
What a busy week!
Wow, what a week we’ve had!
Literacy Week
Our Literacy Week was a great success. We’ve had writing workshops led by Mrs. Osborne, a storyteller for Primary 1-3, trips to the library for Primary 7, an author visit for Primary 4-7, a book swap, a read-a-thon, a book quiz, the chance to come to school dressed as a book character and today’s assembly included reading the book “Dear Zoo”, IN FRENCH! In addition to all of this classes have been taking part in extra Literacy based work throughout the week. We hope that all these activities have sparked some extra enthusiasm for Literacy and that the children have been inspired to pick up a book or write one themselves!
Child Smile
On Thursday children in Primary 1-4 had fluoride varnish applied to their teeth in order to keep them in tip top condition.
Swimming
Our Primary 5s continued their swimming lessons at the Sir Matt Busby Centre.
Parents’ Evening
As I’ve already posted, we were delighted at the amount of parents who came to the school to discuss their child’s progress with their teacher.
Bring and Buy Sale and Soak the 7s
Today our Primary 7s ran their Bring and Buy Sale and got completely soaked all in order to raise money for their leavers’ event in June. The appeared to have a great time and have managed to raise over £200. Well done to you all the Primary 7s, Mrs. Minchella and Mrs. Shaw.
Charity work
Today we posted two cheques to very worthwhile charities. We have raised £384 for Guide Dogs for the Blind by selling chocolate eggs in knitted chicks and £298.45 for Comic Relief by selling red noses and making our faces funny for money. A huge thank you to everyone who contributed.
We’ll post photos of all the events as we collect in the cameras. Thanks to all the pupils, parents and staff who have made this such a wonderful week.
Next Week
Next week is a much quieter week with children continuing their usual work in their classes. Please remember that we stop for the Spring holiday at 2.30pm on Thursday 2nd April.
Have a lovely weekend!
Mrs Watt
