Look what’s coming to our play-yard very, very soon!

Our children’s health and well being is extremely important to us and what better way to encourage fitness, agility and fun than a wonderful ‘trim trail’. The cost of the above is ￡15439.00.

Working together in Motherwell as a community dedicated to ensuring the best for our children we have managed to raise the required funding 😀

Our grateful thanks and appreciation is extended to:

Forgewood Charities who have pledged to match  up to ￡7500 pound per pound to our own funding

Our fabulous Fundraisers who donated ￡2000 and then last night at our Ladies Night raised an additional ￡1216.00. HUGE thanks to all who came along and supported this event, a great night was had by all.

Yourselves for raising an amazing ￡3000 through our Move a Mile in Motherwell sponsored event last session

To everyone who contributes to our school and nursery in any way as the remaining funding will come from our school and nursery funds.

We are incredibly indebted to everyone who has made this excellent learning opportunity possible. Can’t wait to try it out!

Health & Safety Matters:

As with all equipment in our yard and in our school community a full risk assessment will carried out prior to use. Initially we will incorporate the Trim Trail into our P.E Programme ensuring all children are taught how to use the equipment safely and fairly.

Once we are satisfied our children are fully informed on best use of equipment we will introduce it into our playtime and lunchtime activities. There will be a table in the centre of the Trim trail (not identified on the drawing) where a member of support staff will be based to provide supervision.

We love our children to have fun and adventures but our primary focus is safety.

Also on Friday our school staff participated in MacMillan World’s Biggest Coffee Morning. Grateful thanks to all staff in our community for donations of raffles, delicious home baking and super sweeties. Thanks also to a large number of local businesses who gave so generously to our school community.

Biggest thanks has to go to our Enterprise Committee, under the guidance of Miss Cawley for all their wonderful efforts preparing and organising Friday’s Coffee Morning. Well done to all involved.

Hope to get some photographs on the Blog very soon.

On Thursday of this week P4 & P5 were enthralled by a presentation from Mr Ted Scanlon, giving valuable insight into the life of a child growing up in Brasil. This complements the work on Brasil on-going in the classes.

Continuing with this theme P4a enjoyed a unique P.E this week, here’s what Mrs McDerment and her lovely class have been up to:

As part of our Paralympics topic during PE the children have been participating in a variety of sports using eye masks to emulate loss of sight and sitting on the floor also to gain an understanding of mobility issues faced by wheelchair users. Here’s some photographs taken by the children, of the children.

Well done Primary 4a Mrs McDerment and Miss McLean.

Meanwhile, there’s a very tasty topic on-going in Primary 7. Mrs McCulloch and Primary 7b are busy conducting market research on a subject dear to our hearts – CHOCOLATE.

P7b created an on-line survey for all and invited children across the school to come to their class and compelte.

Here are some pictures from their afternoon and the link  to the survey.

The children completed the survey online and then investigated Glow with their P7 partner.

They seemed to really enjoy it.

Every week I am overwhelmed by the huge range of learning activities our children have opportunity to experience. What a motivating and inspiring way to learn.

Well done to all children who participated, to Primary 7b and Mrs McCulloch.

Coupled with all of the above, our excellent nursery continues to develop our youngest children, providing a huge variety of active, fun learning experiences for those not yet old enough for school. Here’s all the gossip from Mrs Margaret Mary Murphy:
Last week the children were busy in the junk modelling area making a range of flats and houses. These are displayed as you enter the playroom. The children planned what they wanted to build and what junk they would need to source to create their buildings. They used visuals to help them build their models.

The children have been recording their daily routines in the numeracy area and have created a body collage of different body parts for the ‘I am Unique’ display. Please check it out and see if you recognise your own children from it. The children have been taking part in activities where they have to name different body parts and loved creating the unique body.

Before the long weekend the children chose the characters to help them remember the nursery Golden Rules.

The Bluebells opted for Tidy Thomas the Tank Engine.

Thistles – Lady from Lady and the Tramp.

Heathers – Sharing Shimmer from Shimmer and Shine

Snowdrops – Walking Woody from Toy Story

Foxgloves – Caring Cinderella.

This week the children have been busy creating and decorating their specific character. Next week each group will showcase their hard work to the whole nursery. Look out for the finished product next week. To remind them of the Golden rules the children have been learning a song that is about each Golden Character.
In the house corner the children have been setting the table and using their senses while preparing the fruit and veg. They have been matching the placemats to the coloured cutlery and have ben washing and drying the dishes.

Last week in the forest the children had the opportunity to use tools to make musical instruments from wood. This activity was very popular and required a lot of listening to instructions and concentration while using the tools. This week the children discovered sparkly glitter at the forest entrance and went on to discover 5 small numbered doors. After much excitement the children decided that the doors belonged to fairies and went on a fairy hunt working with a partner to match the fairy stickers. Great fun was had by all.

How fabulous does that sound? Wish I’d been there!

Mrs Shields