This week we rejoiced with our P6 & P7 pupils as they celebrated the Sacrament of Confirmation. 127 young people were confirmed by His Lordship Bishop Toal. Our congratulations to all for a truly uplifting and spiritual Mass. Thanks also to Fr. Chromy, Fr. Martin, Canon O’Mahoney & Deacon Tom who all give so generously of their time to our school community. Indeed on Monday of last week Fr. Chromy, Fr Martin, Canon O’Mahoney and Fr. Krzystof all came along to school to celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation with our Confirmandi. We are indebted to our clergy for all their support and spiritual guidance.

Thursday and Friday were dominated by our fantastic Primary 2 pupils who had us all laughing out loud at their wonderful assembly based on The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch. An inspirational piece of work, it was superb.

Photographs, courtesy of John Quinn (Grace’s dad), are available by clicking the link below. The photographs really capture the essence of fun and enjoyment of the assembly. My thanks to John for sharing his talents and skills to give us a lasting pictorial memory of a truly motivating and inspiring morning.

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Thanks also to our talented staff who scripted, rehearsed and produced such fine work. Particular thanks to Miss Love, Mrs Findlay, Mrs Blaney, Mrs Harrison, Mrs McAllister, Mrs Campbell & Mrs McCoy. However, our BIGGEST vote of thanks has to go to every pupil in Primary 2 who gave their heart and soul to their performances. Well done P2 you are indeed ‘stars’.

Our celebrations of success continued this week as we joined our threes sets of solo singers as they all performed on Thursday evening, Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning. The P5 to P7 pupils were magnificent. Huge thanks to Mrs Shevlin for her wonderful work preparing and presenting the children for these competitions. Here they are all spruced up and looking fab.

This weekend we also joined Julia Gawel, P3a, her family & Miss Cawley as Julia was presented with her trophy for winning first place for P1-P3 in Mother Tongue Other Tongue Poetry Competition. Julia recited her poem in SECC on Saturday morning and accepted her award from the Scots Makar, Jackie Kay. This was a lovely presentation with a number of children from across Scotland presenting their poems. Well done, once again, to Julia a magnificent achievement. The judges commented on how talented Julia was to be able to speak in Polish, converse fluently in English and write in Scots. Superb learning Julia.

This coming Monday our choir will perform in The Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow as part of Glasgow Music Festival, we wish them well. On Tuesday our Cross Country runners will participate in the NLC Finals, let’s hope for a dry day! Good luck to all of our runners. Here’s how they looked at the trials.

Tuesday of this week is also our bi-annual Parent Evening, we look forward to all of our parents and carers coming along to hear all about their children’s learning and celebrate all their good work.

And now for the nursery news:
Another busy week in nursery with the children extending their road safety knowledge.
The children have created a role-play area in the far corner of the playroom. They painted a zebra crossing on the wall and placed the finished painted Lollipop Lady on the display. The children have been role-playing using the props.

In art they have created a number of different vehicles from junk and when completed they will use these to further their imaginative play.

In numeracy they have continued to identify a range of road signs and made a display of their learning on the wall. They have been watching and listening to road safety stories and games and as the week went on they have also been listening to ‘Stranger Danger’ stories and songs to help them become aware of how to safe. This will continue next week.

In Literacy the children have been using the road signs during a cutting activity. This has helped to improve their scissor control and their cutting skills.

Outdoors the children have made a map of their road safety walk which they have proudly displayed on the numeracy wall. They played road safety games which involved them concentrating and listening to the commands. They used the wooden panels to make a road for their vehicles to travel on.

In drama they have been taking part in a range of activities with our student Miss Smith, this helps build their confidence as they express their ideas and share them with their peers.

Science has also been taken over by our other student Mrs Harrison who has provided a growth mindset activity using a brain prop and brain hats. The children identified where the brain is in their bodies and what it does. They discussed how they can help their brain to grow. The brain was very squishy and the children enjoyed touching it. See if you can spot them in this weeks photographs.

Pre-school activities this week concentrated on numeracy. The children took part in number recognition games, spot the missing number and they used the big dice and coloured vehicles to match number to quantity. The children are enjoying taking part in these special enrichment activities.

We look forward to speaking to all parents/carers on Tuesday at parent’s night.

 

That’s us for this week, see you all on Tuesday. As always, thanks for reading and please feel free to leave a comment or two…

Mrs. Shields