What a fabulous week, it’s been so productive and such great fun. Here’s Why…..

Monday Forgewood Charities confirmed our funding for our Trim trail and it is now on order. Thanks in advance to Mr Eddie McMahon (Aidan’s dad) who has agreed to prepare the ground for us ( free of charge), we are so grateful for his help and expertise.

Tuesday our netball team had their first ever coaching session with Marcus and on Friday they participated in their first ever League challenge, winning 3 out of 4 matches – how incredible is that!

Friday saw our footballers ‘do us proud’  too by also winning 3 out of 4 games in their League challenge.

However, most importantly, all in attendance spoke so highly of our children’s sportsmanship, their friendliness and their excellent manners. I’m so proud of you all boys and girls, be very proud of yourselves. Great ambassadors for our school community. Thanks to all of our support staff and parents who came along to help (and cheer).

Monday saw our Entrepreneurs go off in search of goodies to make their ‘Lucky Bags’. Watch this space for some fun early Christmas gifts coming soon.

Our Cross Country Runners started their training again this Monday, come rain, come shine they’ll be out there getting fit and having fun.

Tuesday evening we welcomed Mrs Sinclair and Mr McQuillan from OLHS who came along to give our Primary Seven parents and pupils at taste of what’s to come. Primary 7 look forward to their first day visit this coming Wednesday, we wish them well. Thanks to all who came along on Tuesday evening. Your continued involvement in your child’s education is so important to their success.

Friday was our annual Hallowe’en Parade, and what fun we had. As a school community we danced, sang and enjoyed each others company, a wonderful way to build community and friendship, great fun too!

Here’s the photographs courtesy of Mrs Harrison – thanks Kirstie.

And here’s what’s been happening in our wonderful nursery:

It has been a SPOOKY week in nursery with the children preparing for their Hallowe’en party on Friday. The children helped to decorate the playroom, they made bats, handprint ghosts and pumpkins using their knuckles. These can all be seen displayed in the nursery.

In snack they made ghost biscuits and cakes for the party and explored witch’s brew.

In numeracy they played a matching pairs Hallowe’en game and watched some spooky stories on the SmartBoard.
In literacy they read scary stories and drew pictures of the characters from the stories. They sang a range of Hallowe’en songs throughout the week.

Outside they conducted a floating and sinking experiment involving different sized pumpkins and they made a graph of their findings which is displayed on the Science wall.

Outwith all of the Ghoulish goings on we had a visit from Sarah the ABC music co-ordinator who introduced the children to some new games and resources that the staff can use in the future to enhance the children’s learning through music.

Also this week our new ‘Play on Pedals’ initiative started lead by Mrs Duffy and Mrs Imray. This is a 6 week block where the children will learn how to use a balance bike, learn the names of the different parts of a bike and how to maintain them.

The 2nd block of Forest Kindergarten started on Wednesday. This block will be lead by Mrs Little and Miss MacMullen. Please check out the photographs on the forest wall in the cloakroom and in the floorbook situated also in the cloakroom.

The party was a huge success. The children had Spooky snack, dooked for apples, played a trick or treat game, they played pass the pumpkin, pumpkin bowling and even exploded some rocket ghosts outside. Have a look at the photographs to see how much fun they had.

Next week our lending library will start back up so look out for your child’s own book bag on their peg at the end of the session.

Mrs Shields Happy Hallowe’en