Welcome to our blog.  Another week has come and gone in OLGA and yet again it proved to be a busy and eventful week.

Monday saw the first meeting of Parent Council this session.  The PC meets and discusses issues which affect our school and provides invaluable support to our community.  Minutes of each meeting are available on display in the foyer and also are posted on the website.  Shortly we will be looking for new members to join our PC as there a a few vacancies.  If you are interested in joining the PC, please watch out for the information coming home.

It was all smiles on Tuesday, as our school photographer visited.  Smiley faces abounded and you will receive information shortly about purchasing prints.  Class photos for Primary 1 will be arranged later in the term (with all the smiles in or school, the photographer ran out of time!)

Thursday was a very active day, with our Primary 7 pupils continuing their ‘Young Leader’s’ training with Jenny, our fab active school coordinator and also our youngest children in the nrusery were getting active with their ‘Mini Movers’ activities.

The highlight of our week was definitely the Primary 7 Assembly, which finished our week with a bang!  Our Primary 7 pupils presented an amazing assembly, themed alongside their topic of World War II.  They presented a huge amount of learning through drama, dance and song and we most certainly were entertained by their performances.  Well done to all of our Primary 7 pupils who participated fully in the assembly.  Hopefully on a separate post, photos will follow.  Thanks must go to our Primary 7 teachers, Mrs Carr, Mrs McLaughlan and Miss Green, our support staff and of course our parents and carers, who clearly supported the work of the Primary 7s in helping learn lines, practice dances and providing costumes. Great team work in action!

Next week in school, a short week due to the September weekend holiday, we will still be busy, busy busy!  We welcome another student teacher to our school, Miss Kelly McAleavey, who will be working with Mrs McCulloch and Primary 5c.

On Tuesday evening, our Management team has been invited to attend the Our Lady’s Prizegiving, always a proud moment as we see our former pupils achieve great success.

Wednesday of this week sees our first Fundraisers Meeting.  The Fundraising group is always looking for new members!  You don’t need any previous experience, just a desire to help raise funds for our fabulous school.  The meeting takes place in the school staffroom at 7.00pm and last for about an hour.  We’d be pleased to see a few new faces, so come along.

A reminder that on Thursday we are hosting a fundraising event for MacMillan Cancer Care.  We will have a non-uniform day for pupils (and staff).  The cost of ‘coming casual’ is £1.00.  Please remember though that football colours are not allowed……BUT TRAINERS ARE!

And now to the Nursery…

 

 

Another extremely busy week down in the nursery.

After discussing last week how the children got to nursery this week, the children have been talking about what they see on their way to nursery. From this discussion the children decided to go on a walk to explore the whole school campus looking for signs and environmental print that they see en route. They discovered a variety of different signs and you can see from the photographs how popular this walk was. By the end of the week they had ventured further afield spotting lots of different signs on their trip up to the town centre. During their expeditions the new children have been learning the safety rules they need to follow when they are out and about.

This led to the children making their own nursery Golden Rules and this will continue next week when they make their own nursery Golden People to help them remember their rules.

In literacy they had the opportunity to tell their own stories of how they get to nursery and what they see in more detail. These have been collated in shaped booklets relating to the way they get to nursery. E.g If the come in a car their story will be in the booklet shaped like a car and if they walk their story will be in the booklet shaped like a foot. Please feel free to look at the great stories these booklets hold.

In numeracy the children drew a detailed map of the nursery playroom and garden showing that they already know the areas within their own environment. Measuring activities continued with the children measuring different objects within the playroom. They used rulers and measuring tapes to discover which was the tallest and which was the smallest. They continue to explore measuring games on the SmartBoard. Over in construction the children were following the picture cards to help them make their own models using the magnetic lego. Some of their creations can be seen displayed in the construction area.

In the snack area the children followed the instructions and made their own pizza faces. They chose the toppings to create their own individual face. This was a very popular activity and the children took their hard work home well some of them did. Most of the children couldn’t resist eating thier pizza as they were leaving and in case you saw a UFO on Thursday one of our pizzas took to the sky as it was placed on the roof of the car and forgotten about.

In expressive arts the children continue to follow the picture cards to make models from junk. This week they went one step further and painted them as well. They also have been busy making their own handprints from saltdough and will have the opportunity to finish painting them before they take them home next week.

On Thursday we had the 2nd session with the Mini Movers coaches. The children listened to the instructions and followed them to improve their ball skills. This week saw the return of the big healthy plate which gave the children the chance to place the correct food groups in the right part of the plate. You can see from the photographs how well they got on.

The children also got the chance to be part of the audience for the first assembly of the year. It is always a fantastic opportunity for the whole school to get together and the children love to see their older siblings perform on the big stage.

On Friday it was SMILES all round when the photographer visited to take all of the nursery children’s photographs. Can’t wait to see how they all turn out.