As we move closer to the end of our term, our week has been full, yet again, of events and opportunities. On Monday evening, our senior pupils were invited to the Welcome Mass in Our Lady’s High School, the first step in their induction week. Our Primary 7 pupils who are transferring to Our Lady’s celebrated this Mass with Fr King and all other pupils joining S1. During the Mass our instrumental children provided music for the Mass, a great honour indeed! They did a marvellous job.
The P7s spent Tuesday and Wednesday at OLHS and had a very exciting 2 days. And of course, Mrs Donnachie, DHT for S1 contacted us to say our pupils were exemplary, as always!
On Thursday, we welcomed a large audience for our annual Magical Musical Morning. Our Primary 5 pupils performed with Mrs Wilkinson, our Percussion Club, Choir and Solo singers performed, as well as all our instrumental children including a performance from our fabulous band! What a wonderful platform for performance, with so many children playing instruments and singing, in fact a few parents commented on just how many children were involved! Thanks must go to all those who work with our ‘musical children’…
Mrs Wilkinson: Kodaly Mr Woods: Brass Miss Lang & Mr Fairley: Saxophones
Miss Allingham: Strings Mrs J Murphy: Clarinets & Solo Singers
Mrs Campbell: Flutes, Percussion Club, Band & Choir
On Thursday afternoon, our school was asked to host the NLC Senior Management Briefing. Our Primary 6 pupils were involved in welcoming visitors from all sectors of the Council and proved to be very efficient in their new roles!
Friday brought another very busy day in school. Mr McBirnie hosted an inter-house football tournament involving children from P5, 6 and 7. Also assisting on the day were some 6th years from OLHS. All involved had a great experience, being involved in almost 2 hours of physical education as the tournament progressed. The winners of the tournament will be announced soon…
However, the most momentous occasion this week took place as our nursery pre-5 children graduated in preparation for transferring to the ‘Big School’ in August. Joined by many parents, grandparents and extended family, our pre-schoolers entertained us with their favourite songs and told us what they’d like to become when they grow up! It proved to be wonderful event in the lives of our youngest pupils and showed just how much they’ve learned in their time in nursery. There final song says it all, ‘Primary One, here we come!’
And here’s the news from the nursery…..
This week Fizzy Cole asked the children to come up with some ideas about how all the athletes coming to the Commonwealth Games would get to Glasgow. They decided that they could come by car, taxi, bus, train and aeroplane. This opened up a great discussion about transport. The children decided that they wanted to make an airport and a train for Fizzy to get to Glasgow. The children got busy and turned the house corner into an airport with the children making signs and tickets in the literacy area to use. They sang songs with a train theme and read stories about different sports. By the end of the week they were discussing holidays and telling detailed stories about their own holiday experiences. These can be seen displayed within the nursery.
In the art area they made a train from recycled boxes and painted it blue and white like the Scotland flag. They continued drawing detailed pictures of Clyde the mascot. Clyde is becoming a very popular character with the children.
In the numeracy area they continued positional games indoors and out, following arrows through a hockey course. The children are really enjoying using the hockey sticks to dribble round the obstacles.
Outdoors they had the opportunity to get physical with the bikes and scooters. The staff are looking out for any budding Sir Chris Hoy’s in the making!
On Wednesday Douglas from Hi Five for fruit and two students from Glasgow University visited the nursery and played name games and tasting names with fruit and vegetables. They discussed the importance of healthy eating and exercise. All children took part in this and Douglas was impressed with the children’s answers. Questionnaires have been issued to a selection of parents, please return these as soon as possible.
The children have been role-playing journeys to different countries on the aeroplane that they imagined in the airport. So far the journey has taken them to London, Canada and Australia.
On Friday the pre-school children all got a chance to shine on the stage during their graduation ceremony. They sang songs that linked with the learning over the last year. They were all absolutely fantastic and showed great confidence when they were interviewed by Mrs Shields. The response from both audiences said it all. Feedback from parents was extremely positive and they were all proud of their little stars of the show as were the staff. A great end to another fantastic week in nursery.
Friday saw the distribution of our final reports in school and nursery. Included in the reports is a feedback sheet for both parent/carer and child to complete. Please return these to school as quickly as possible.
As we move into our penultimate week in school, we prepare for our 3-day event. As mentioned in our last newsletter, pupils should come to school wearing PE kit, yellow polo shirts, joggers/shorts and (yes…) trainers!
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