On Friday 25th November we were treated to a fabulous learning example from Primary 5. Their assembly theme was ‘Growth Mindset’ promoting a ‘yes you can if you try’ attitude to all.

Here’s the learning in word and picture from the primary 5 pupils:

I enjoyed our assembly, I loved learning about Growth and Fixed Mindset.
Cruz Dunbar

My assembly taught me to never give up and always try my best. My favourite part
Daniel Watters

I really enjoyed doing our assembly, I learned so much about the brain.
Isla Donnelly

In our assembly, I learned a lot of things especially about Growth and Fixed Mindset. It was phenomenal.
Steven Smyth

Our assembly was amazing, my favourite part was singing Everything’s Controlled by the Brain.
Kieran McGonagle

Our assembly was amazing, I loved it. I liked the song Follow Your Dreams.
Victoria Korcipa

I loved my part as I did a silly dance and everyone laughed. I am going to try hard to stretch my brain now that I know about Growth Mindset.
Gyozo Hodos

I learned about fixed mindsets and growth mindsets. If you want to learn and not give up you have a growth mindset- Oliwia Malek

I enjoyed dancing in our assembly- Nikla Reichel

I enjoyed learning the song Your Fantastic Elastic Brain- Molly Tominey

I enjoyed making all the mums and dads laugh. I learned that I should never give up.- Diana Delina

I learned that the cerebellum sends messages to the body so you can do everyday sports.- Hayden Gilmour

I liked making my mum and dad laugh- James Munro

I enjoyed dancing on the stage- Anna McGhee

I liked when we were singing High Hopes- Connor Kerrigan

I know that the word amygdala is Latin for almond- Lucas Lowe

I learned that you need a growth mindset to go further in what you want to do- Kyle Ilgunas

My favourite part was saying my lines and singing out. I learned that the cerebellum sends messages to the brain.- Roark McShane

I thought the Assembly encouraged me to try new things. – Arianna Bosco P4/5

Growth mindset inspires me to try new things and I was confident about doing my part in the Assembly. – Sarah Allan P4/5

I had fun. I learned about growth mindset. I liked doing my Assembly. – Katie Forrest. P4/5

From our Assembly I learned that you can do anything if you try and a mistake is just another way to learn. – Paul Latimer P4/5

I am inspired by other people’s success and I hope you are too. – Anna Devine P4/5

I like having a growth mindset because it makes me feel like I can do anything. Lauren Dornan P4/5

I had a fun time. We learned lots of new things. I liked doing my part. Connor Brennan P4/5

Well done to Mrs Carr, Mrs Irwin, Mrs Rimmer, Miss Campbell and Miss Falconer for all their hard work but the biggest thanks has to go to our wonderful Primary Five pupils, they have inspired us all.

Digital School Award:

This week our school had a visit from Mr Lee Dunn who is the UK validator for schools applying for the newly launched Digital Schools Award. Mr Dunn spent the morning in school speaking with the children, learning about all aspects of digital learning in our school and interviewing Mrs Campbell, Mrs McCulloch and myself. Mr Dunn now goes and formulates his report which is then forwarded to HP (Hewlett Packard) for verification. We hope to hear the outcome before Christmas.  Should our school be successful we will be the first school in North Lanarkshire to attain this award, fingers and toes crossed.

A huge thanks to Mrs McCulloch, Mrs Campbell, Mrs Stevenson, Mrs Cunningham and all the boys and girls who so confidently presented their work. A special thanks to our presenters on the day:

Tour – Niamh, Katie, Matthew,

Presentation
Introduction – Joseph
Digital Project – Niamh and Katie along with Digital Curriculum Book
Yammer/Glow/Studyladder – Matthew
Sway – Joseph
Coding – Reece
Christopher – Clicker 6, Units of Sounds, Lexion
EAL children – Matthew, Itranslate etc
ICT Crew – Matthew Katie Reece
Conclusion – Joseph

Children working with other classes
P2a Martyna F, Abi, Ashlyn, Martyna Z, Imaan
P2b Natalia, Kealin, Sophie, Dylan McB

A fabulous way to demonstrate the excellent ICT skills and more importantly our young people as confident individuals who are excellent ambassadors for our school. Watch this space.

A big thanks also to any parent, grandparent, friend of the school and nursery who has ever commented on our Blog, Mr Dunn was most impressed.

And, as if that’s not enough for one week…. Look what has been fitted in our yard:

Here’s some Primary Sevens looking on longingly…..

And finally they get to have a go…..

Our Trim trail will be in use very soon once our risk assessment is in place and our signs indicating how many can play at each item are secured. Be patient boys and girls.

We hope to use our trim trail for PE next week to allow every child the opportunity to learn how to use the equipment safely and fairly.

And now for our nursery news:

This week in nursery the children have been celebrating all their successes.

The 2nd Forest Kindergarten came to an end on Wednesday with the parents joining the children in the forest for their graduation. The children showed how confident they have become exploring and managing their own risks in the forest site. The children and their parents were set a challenge. Using a visual board they set off to match different things that they had learned could live or grow in the forest over the last few weeks. E.g Owls (from the Owl Babies story). The parents took on the challenge and enjoyed it as much as the children did. All children received a special certificate to celebrate their experience. The feedback from parents was excellent and we would like to thank the parents for coming along and supporting their children.

The success continued with the conclusion of the first block of the ‘Play on Pedals’ programme. This has been a fantastic new initiative lead by our enthusiastic instructors, Mrs Duffy and Mrs Imray who have broadened their own knowledge of balancing skills and bike maintenance through the programme. The children were very proud to show off their new skills to their parents and the parents couldn’t believe the bike facts and maintenance information that the children had also learned over the 6 weeks. Each child has improved at some level and have increased their vocabulary by learning all the names of the parts of the bike and how important it is to continue maintaining their own bikes to make them safe to ride in the future. Each child received a certificate to celebrate their success.

While all this was going on the nursery was gearing up to celebrate St Andrew’s day. The children made Scottish flags and tartan from a range of different materials. Have a look at the photographs to see all the different opportunities they had to follow positional mathematical language. They celebrated with Scottish music and dancing and finished off the Shindig with some lovely Scottish shortbread.

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A very successful week at nursery!!

Show practice continues and letters have been issued to inform parents of any clothing required. If you have received a letter please provide the items as soon as possible. Thank you for your continued support.

As always, thanks for reading, please feel free to comment on any aspect of our Blog.

Mrs Shields