On Sunday 22nd April Mrs Hendry, our Primary 1B teacher, will be running the Virgin Money London Marathon 2018 for The National Autistic Society. As part of her fundraising Mrs Hendry has knitted Bertie Bloomer. Bertie Bloomer loves gardening and is working hard to get his garden ready for spring. This will take the form of a raffle and the cost per number is 50p. The children can buy as many tickets as they like. Tickets will go on sale from Monday 12th March. The winning ticket will be drawn on Thursday 29th March. Please help support Mrs Hendry in raising funds for such a worthwhile and deserving charity.
School closure *update*
Please be advised that NLC have announced that due to continued severe weather warnings all schools and nurseries will be closed tomorrow (Thursday 1st).
School closure
NLC have advised that all schools will be closed today. Please be safe with Amber warning in place. We will update information as we have it.
St John Bosco Disco
A community disco will be held in St John Bosco Parish Hall on Friday 26th January 6.30pm – 8.30pm.
This community event is free for all children of primary school age. There will be a small tuck shop offering juice, crisps and sweets.
The organisers look forward to seeing you there.
Guess the bear’s birthday! For 50p a shot you could adopt this Pudsey. The Pupil Council will come to classes tomorrow to “sell” the dates. #fundraising #ChildreninNeed pic.twitter.com/3ogsOoUNO4
— NewStevenstonPrimary (@NewStevenstonPr) November 15, 2017
P7b loving the fresh air on their first afternoon working towards our John Muir Award. #johnmuiraward pic.twitter.com/5LzifBhCOO
— NewStevenstonPrimary (@NewStevenstonPr) November 15, 2017
Harvest Celebration
Health Week
We are currently enjoying Health Week here at New Stevenston Primary. As well as enjoying sessions based around physical activity and orienteering we are also creating opportunities this week for our pupils to think about the benefits of relaxed minds. They will achieve this through yoga sessions and a mindfulness talk delivered to the whole school. The week will culminate in a sports day outside as Friday is ‘European School Sports Day’. Please take the chance to ask your child at home about any activities they have been involved in this week.
Week Two
This week we have been learning all about Fairtrade products and where they are sold. We were interested to find out what pupils of New Stevenston Primary already knew about Fairtrade so we organised an eight question survey. Each group visited a different class and carried out the survey.This was difficult because we had to count the number of votes carefully. When we got back to class we put the results onto a bar chart. As a result of the survey we learned that most pupils in the school know what Fairtrade is and have bought Fairtrade products before. We also learned that most people would buy Fairtrade products if they were sold in school, which is great.
By Paul, Matthew and Ahmad.
Week One
Primary 5 have been learning all about Fair Trade. This week we learned that Fair Trade is a foundation that works to give farmers in poor communities better lives. Fair Trade sells products at a price that ensures every farmer gets paid a fair amount of money. In groups we discussed how the money is split between the farmer, supermarket, shipper and plantation owner. We were shocked to find out that a banana farmer only receives 2p for every 30p banana sold. Hopefully we will learn about different ways that we can help Fair Trade farmers around the world.
By Harvey, Ewan, Brooke and Maariyah.
