It worked !!!!! The bands in the dining hall are a success (phew). We are delighted it has proved so successful, long may it continue.

Our Monday morning assembly this week focused on how we can best help our local community. Mr David Shaw from Motherwell Food Bank joined us and provided a most stimulating presentation to the children. Thanks to all who have responded in kind by donating non-perishable foodstuffs to help those in our local community who are in great need of assistance.

 

Tuesday dawned with our school and health personnel working together to ensure a safe and healthy winter for our children. Staff from NHS spent the day in school administering flu vaccine. NHS staff commented most favourably about our children, their manners, their mature approach and their lovely smart uniforms. Well done boys and girls.

 

Tuesday evening our P7 parents came along to the school in great number for a presentation regarding our new relationships programme for P7 pupils ‘God’s Loving Plan’ as directed by Scottish catholic Education Service. Parents also had the opportunity to learn about their children’s next big step – High School. Mrs Sinclair & Mr McQuillan from OLHS joined us to speak to parents and provide a very practical guide to High School. Our P7 pupils will enjoy their first visit this session this coming Tuesday – we wish you luck Primary 7.

 

Wednesday evening our Fabulous Fundraisers met to discuss our forthcoming Ladies Night. This is our second ladies Night (the first one last year was fab). Let’s hope for continued success. Tickets are available from front office priced at £5. Ladies Night is in St. Bride’s Hall on Friday 6^th November. Hope to see you there.

This is an expample of the type of resources our children have because of the good work of our Fundraisers. We have recently purchased a box of wet play/golden time games for every class – £1400. A huge thanks to all who contributed.

 

Thursday I met with NLC personnel to measure up for our forthcoming Teaching Kitchen – we look forward to having this brand new facility in our school to allow all of our pupils, staff and parents the opportunity to develop our culinary skills. More information after Christmas when we hope our kitchen will be fully functional.

 

In this most exciting week in school and nursery lots of talk has been around dressing up and Hallowe’en. We have reminded all children of the importance of safety and caution if ‘going out for Hallowe’en’. All classes have discussed how best to ensure we remain safe, the importance of not going into strangers houses and always be accompanied by a responsible adult. Our week ended with a fabulous Hallowe’en Parade thoroughly enjoyed by all. Thanks to parents, pupils and staff for their on-going enthusiasm and active participation. Great to see our school and nursery come together in such a happy, fun way.

 

There have been lots of Spooky things happening in nursery this week:

 

In literacy the children have been writing spooky words from the story ‘Room on the Broom’. They made a cauldron with spooky words on it for their party activity. In music the children continued to sing Hallowe’en songs.

Over in numeracy the children matched number to quantity using pumpkins and pumpkin seeds and in science they experimented by filling a baby bath with water then added a variety of different sized pumpkins to see which ones sank or floated.

In expressive arts they made skeleton hand prints and explored the gooey slime in the water tray. They made black spooky playdough and used the Hallowe’en cutters to make witches, cats and bats.

Outdoors they explored the Autumn numberline and matched the leaves in the tray to the correct colour. You may have noticed that our Golden Superhero characters have appeard outside on the wall this is to help the children remember their nursery rules outside.

Over in the snack area the children took part in an Autumn vegetable naming game. They then used the vegetables to make Autumn soup. It was thumbs up from the children and Mrs Duffy when they finally got to taste the soup they prepared. As the week progressed the children started to make their snacks for their party. They made spiders, witches hats and bats nests.

Wednesday saw our 2nd visit to the forest. The rain was relentless but it did not effect the children who continued to explore the forest site and had great fun. The photographs speak for themselves. There is no such thing as bad weather only unsuitable clothing.

On Wednesday we also said goodbye to Mrs Keenan as she left to go on her maternity leave. The children presented her with a beautiful present and a card that they had made in the forest. Needless to say a few tears were shed. We wish her all the best and can’t wait to meet her little bundle when the stork brings it!

On Friday great fun was had by all as the children took part in all things spooky. The party got under way with a game of Pass the Pumpkin, musical bumps and dancing. They then had the opportunity to visit 5 different activities. These were:

 

• Pin the nose on the pumpkin.
• Match the spooky words to the pictures on the cauldron.
• Marshmallow ghosts.
• Spooky feely tubs.
• Spooky story.

 

The children all went home exhausted as did the staff.

A wee pictorial whizz around the wonderful nursery experience this week.

As always, thanks for reading. Please leave a comment, it’d be nice to know you are out there.

Mrs Shields