We’ll begin this week’s Blog with our wonderful nursery. As detailed earlier this week on our App, our nursery won some super furniture in a competition from Inspirational Furniture. Working with Mrs MM Murphy the boys and girls compiled a 30 word poem stating why they should win. In case you missed it on the App here’s the winning entry:
Inspirational furniture is really cool
We’d love it in our nursery school
Stimulating, encouraging and inspiring
That’s why we’d like to be acquiring
This super prize that we’re admiring
Our nursery won; New outdoor storage trolley, Wooden trike, Fabulous outdoor story seats, Additional unit for Lending Library, New sensory mirrored unit, Indoor seats with storage underneath, Witch house, a garage and a wooden trike. A fabulous prize for a fabulous nursery, well done to everyone concerned.
Here’s Mrs MM Murphy with all the details of what else has been happening in our nursery this week:
It has been a SPOOKY week in nursery this week with the house corner being transformed into a Witches house. The children have been exploring all things creepy in the water tray and in the spooky playdough. Outdoors they have created a witch’s den and have moved the cauldrons and spoons in to make their own potions.
In Literacy they have been listening to and discussing a range of Hallowe’en stories and spooky songs. Over at the writing table the children had the opportunity to write Hallowe’en words on pumpkins. These are proudly displayed in the playroom.
In snack the children discussed what food they wanted to order for the forthcoming Hallowe’en party and chatted about what they are going to dress up as on the day.
On the Smartboard they have been playing the Hallowe’en matching game. Listening to ‘Room on the Broom’ and scary songs.
Meanwhile in our school we’ve enjoyed a very busy first week back.
We welcomed some more work experience pupils from Our Lady’s High School and also 2 student teachers from University of West of Scotland.
On Thursday Primary 7 pupils all had opportunity to spend a day at Our Lady’s High, a taste of things to come. A great day was had by all.
Also on Thursday Primary 6 pupils enjoyed a wonderful learning opportunity with Caritas pupils from Our Lady’s High. Our pupils were treated to a tour of our beautiful, historical Cathedral Church. This was a wonderful opportunity to work with senior pupils in OLHS to learn all about the history of this fabulous sacred building. A huge thanks to the Caritas pupils (many of whom are former OLGA Cathedral pupils), they did a great job and made this tour such an interesting, stimulating learning experience for our P6 pupils.
Follow the link below to read some of our children’s views:
https://padlet.com/jacquelinemcculloch/olga
On Friday our school community had fabulous fun with ‘Clubbercise’. Our school community ‘glowed’ with bright accessories, glow sticks, neon face paint and light up balloons. A HUGE thanks to our Clubbercise experts; Mrs Rimmer, Miss Donnelly and Miss Love who lead us through wonderful, energetic routines, I’m sure they all slept well on Friday night!
Thanks also to all who sponsored our pupils. We are trying to raise funds to build an outdoor classroom working closely with fabulous Fundraisers and the generosity of Forgewood Charity we hope to soon have enough to build our brilliant new classroom in our yard. I will let you know the amount raised next week through our App. Photographs of all the fun will also be posted on the App next week. A final thanks to all parents/carers who came along to join in the fun.
Primary 4/5, 5a and 5b all enjoyed Clubbercise on Thursday afternoon as they headed off to New Lanark on Friday. They have been studying ‘The Worst Children’s Jobs in History’.
Mrs Findlay reports:
The children enjoyed their visit to New Lanark in the autumn sunshine. Travelling back in time, they met with the philanthropist Robert Owen, visited a working mill, and enjoyed seeing how people lived back in the 1800s. The highlight for most was meeting the ghost of young Annie McLeod; an experience they’ll never forget!
A very busy week with so many different learning opportunities, long may it continue.
As always, thanks for reading. Please leave a comment or two.
Mrs Shields
