Monday:
Our Monday morning assembly was one of thanksgiving. We gathered in prayer to give thanks God for the beautiful celebrations of First Holy Communion on Saturday and Sunday. Over the weekend 64 of our Primary 4 pupils received Jesus in this special way for the very first time. Huge thanks to the large number of staff who attended over the weekend, to our clergy; Fr. Chromy, Fr. Martin & Canon O’Mahoney, to our parents for their ongoing commitment to Catholic Education and the celebration of the Sacraments, finally, and most importantly thanks to our Primary 4 First Communicants.
Tuesday:
Mrs Carr accompanied a number of our pupils to annual Tour Series Cycling in Motherwell. Mrs Carr reports:
‘For the 4th year in a row, Motherwell was host to the OVO Tour Series, a professional road race for top cyclists from all over Europe. Once again, pupils from local primary schools who had completed Bikeability 1, were invited to come along and have the opportunity to cycle 2 laps of the 1.2km street circuit before the professional races began.
Some of our cyclists jumped at the chance of taking part and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. They had a great time cycling the course and taking part in the training activities that followed. As you would expect, they were a credit to themselves and to the school. Thanks also to Mrs Munro for accompanying the children.’
Wednesday:
On Wednesday we came together for a fabulous presentation from our newly elected ‘Playground Patrol’ under the guidance of Miss Love, Principal Teacher. The Playground Patrol presented to the whole school offering tips and guidance on how to make best use of our wonderful new set of toys for our yard. This was a super presentation engaging all in the hall. Our pupils learned how to stay safe and achieve maximum fun. A big thanks to all concerned and a HUGE thanks to our Fabulous Fundraisers who provided funding for the toys – to the tune of £1600.00
Thursday:
We awoke to blue skies and sunshine and wide smiles from all on P3a & P3b who spent a wonderful day at Stirling Castle learning about historical events, knights and castles. A wonderful learning experience and great fun too.
Also on Thursday a group of our P7 pupils who have been participating in ‘Lift Off’ Programme with Our Lady’s High School joined in the celebration of being part of Lift Off Award at Excellence and Equity Awards Ceremony. Well done to all concerned. Lift Off is part of our excellent transition work ensuring a smooth and happy transition for all pupils.
Within our own school on this day our Primary Seven pupils were introduced to ‘Christian Meditation’ a unique approach to allowing God to enter into our lives and creating calm in our very busy world. Our thanks to Mrs Pat Hay who volunteered to lead our children and staff in this prayerful meditation. We look forward to further input from Mrs Hay across our school in the new session.
Friday:
What an end to our week Primary two treated us all to an ‘awesome’ assembly all about Pirates. We learned so much about the lives of pirates and all on board the boats. This was a super, fun filled assembly enjoyed by all in the audience but, more importantly, thoroughly enjoyed by all in Primary 2.
Congratulations and well done to all staff concerned: Mrs Laird, Miss Falconer, Miss Cawley, Mrs Devanney, Mrs Murphy, Mrs McCoy and Mrs Campbell.
As always, our biggest vote of thanks goes to our wonderful Primary 2 pupils who sang, danced and performed brilliantly. We are all very proud of our P2 pupils.
Meanwhile down in the nursery…….
The weather has been very kind to all of us this week and the children have been exploring the garden with great enthusiasm. The watering cans in the garden have been put to good use as the children continue to look after the flowers and the vegetables that they have planted. Some of the children have reported back with details of their beanstalks that they took home to care for.
A little reminder our garden is a suntrap and sunscreen should be applied before coming to nursery.
We continue with our ‘New Beginnings’ topic. The children have been viewing the mini vegeatable garden window to watch the growth of their carrots, spring onions and radishes. They have been learning all about the importance of sun and water to help their plants grow and have been naming the different parts of a flower. Some children have been discussing the insects that visit the flowers. Watch out next week as we are hoping to have some of these visitors delivered to the nursery.
In the art area the children continue to explore shapes and this week have used the shape boats in the watertray and a range of shapes in the sand. Outdoors they painted a collage with the big 3d shapes.
In numeracy each group made their own Giant’s castle from different shapes and counted the various shapes used. They continue to use the 3d shapes cards to sort and match.
Our graduation preparations continue each day.
We had an impromptu visit from Inspector John our local Policeman who chatted to all the children about his job. He was very concerned that one of the children had lost his hat the day before and recorded the loss in his little black book. Mrs Murphy came under suspicion as she had given it to another child. Unfortunately with her memory not being so good she was classed as an unreliable witness. John showed all the children his different hats, vests and his handcuffs. He answered some questions about his job and left the children some equipment to use for their graduations pictures. Thanks to Inspector John for popping in.
Our new Forest Kindergarten Family bag is proving a BIG hit with some of our families who have been exploring some local woodland using the resources provided. The feedback has been very positive.
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Mrs Shields
