An assembly with a difference this week. Monday morning our committees overtook the majority of our assembly.

First of all our Health Committee launched their annual ‘Anti-Bullying Week’ challenge to us all. The children are asked to design and produce an anti-bullying poster to be displayed around our school reminding everyone of our commitment to ensure everyone in our school feels safe and happy at school.

This coming Friday our children are asked to wear something blue as a reminder of our commitment.

Our grateful thanks to Mrs Loose, Miss Love and the Committee for all their work.

Here’s the Health Committee in action.

Following this our Enterprise Committee launched their new ‘Lucky Bag’ initiative, where children from nursery through to P7 have opportunity to purchase Lucky Bags with the proceeds going to a charity of the children’s choice. Thanks to Miss Cawley, Miss Cassidy and all the Enterprise Team.

The Lucky Bags have been on sale all week long during morning interval.

Our week ended with a wonderful P6 Coffee Morning, our second this year. Thanks once again to the fabulous coffee morning ladies and gents who give so freely of their time, we are indebted to you all. Thanks also to all who contributed in any way to our coffee morning, your support is greatly appreciated.

Thanks also to Mr Eddie McMahon, Aidan’s dad, who has prepared our outside grounds for our forthcoming Trim trail….The Excitement Mounts!

Meanwhile, our youngest pupils have enjoyed a very busy week. Here’s all the gossip:

This week the children have all been out and about on a range of public transport. They have been on the minibus, the local bus and they have been on a few train jouneys to Bellshill and Hamilton. This has been in response to the children’s interest in transport. Have a look at the fun they have had on their journeys.

Back in the nursery the children used a mindmap to recall what they had seen when they visited the market stall in the town last week. From this they have created their own market stall in the nursery. Healthy fruit and veg all round. This gives the children the opportunity to role-play various roles such as the customer and the market seller.

In Literacy they have been singing lots of Autumn songs and discussing the changes of the season. They have been listening to the story of the ‘Owl Babies’ and recalling it. They have used the puppets and the puppet theatre to re-enact the story.

In art they have been using the leaves that they have been bringing in as paint brushes and they have been doing some leaf rubbings while looking closely at the different parts of the leaves. They decorated pine cones with Autumn colours and used shire-seal to preserve their leaf prints.

In Science the children were exploring the local environment to gain an understanding in the difference in the weather and how it effects our environment. The children used their senses to describe what they could see, feel and touch. After collecting the Autumn leaves the children matched them to the correct tree. Their findings can be found in the Science area in the nursery.

Down in the forest the children have been using the tools to whittle tier branches. They listened carefully and followed the safety instructions. The children discussed Autumn and had great fun with the abundance of leaves on the forest floor.

A major breakthrough in the ‘Play on Pedals’ programme this week. Two children can now ride their bikes unaided.

On returning to the nursery the children discovered a red box hidden in the bushes. They opened it up and their was a Reindeer and a letter along with a booklet. The Reindeer’s name was Sven and he had some sad news for the children. He told them that he was very good friends with Rudolph but unfortunately Rudolph was very sick, he obviously has that bad cough that everyone seems to have just now. Rudolph is so sick that he might not be able to drive the sleigh on Christmas Eve. So he asked the children to put on a show that would make Rudolph feel better. The children all agreed that they would try their best to make Rudolph better.

It just gets better and better, well done to all in our excellent nursery.

Thanks for reading. Let us know what you think.

Mrs Shields