We had a very busy four days in school this week after our holiday weekend.

TUESDAY

I spent time teaching primary 7, we looked at Scottish mythical creatures, story telling and the Orkney Islands. The children set themselves some targets and then worked hard in pairs until two thirty researching, writing and drawing. They set their own tasks and timescales and the finished results were very good. I especially enjoyed reading Owen and Sean’s story.

Our caterpillars survived the long weekend and are growing plumper everyday!

WEDNESDAY

Elle, Dawid, Alfie and Chloe spent Tuesday in St Aidan’s High School taking part in the P7 Maths Challenge. They enjoyed taking part and found some sections  easy and others challenging. They did us proud!

Mrs Preston and four primary 1 children visited Castlehill Nursery Class. This is the final visit in what is a big task;  visiting all of our feeder nurseries. The staff at Castlehill loved seeing our great big, grown up primary one children!

Motherwell Football Coaches visited P5 and P5/6 for the second part of their health programme this afternoon.

THURSDAY

Primary 4 enjoyed a great adventure… they walked to Wishaw train station and travelled by train to Glasgow City Centre where they caught the open topped tourist bus which took them on a tour of the city. They stopped off at The Riverside Museum, they then had lunch and their photograph taken with Michelle Mc Manus! They were very well behaved and had a great time. A big thank you to Mrs Rae, Mrs McKay and our group of parent helpers who accompanied them.

We had a surprise visitor in our nursery class today, Mrs Aileen Quinn from The Care Commision Inspectorate. She spent time with the children and then working with Mrs Hughes and Mrs Rodger. She will return on Monday morning when she will speak to nursery parents and complete her inspection.

FRIDAY

Today I attended Motherwell Diocese Head Teacher Conference at the Conforti Institute in Coatbridge. The theme of our day was Opening Hearts and Minds. In the afternoon we looked at new Sacramental Books for First Confession, First Communion and Confirmation. We will use these next session.

Beats of Brazil, a samba band were in school today working with our primary 7 pupils. They were practising for our Global day on Monday. We are very excited! It is also the beginning of Mission week in St Thomas’ Church. Monday is a dress down day.

We are hoping for some butterflies when we return on Monday….. watch this space