During today’s assembly there was a special draw to pick our Viewpark Gala Day representatives. This year, Aitkenhead will be represented by the Gala Queen, Champion, two ladies in waiting, a flowergirl and a crown bearer. We had some very excited boys and girls who I bet can’t wait to tell their families tonight. We will announce their names on here shortly!
This term primary 3 and 4 joined together to enjoy golden time. Each week children can choose from arts and crafts, i-pads, games, library, lego, magnetics or an active activity with Mrs Maitland outside or in the hall. The boys and girls have loved visiting the different classrooms and making new friends. Here are some photographs of what they chose this week.
We have purchased a subscription for an online education resource, called Education City. Children have been issued with usernames and passwords to access this fantastic resource at home. They will have access to songs and interactive games to support their learning across a wide range of curricular areas including literacy, numeracy, french, spanish, science etc. Here is the link to the website. Let us know what you think! http://www.educationcity.com/
Rookie Rockstars will be bringing their exciting programme to the school on Monday 6th March 2017. Rookie Rockstars is an initiative that was created to give children the opportunity to work with professional musicians to learn original songs, record a CD and perform in a fantastic concert. The programme covers key areas of the Curriculum for Excellence: Health and Wellbeing, Expressive Arts, Moral Education, Literacy, Technologies and more. Children participate
Primary 3 were so excited this week when their Scottish souvenir shop and museum opened for business. Children have enjoyed learning about objects from the past, guessing what they could be and what they were used for and comparing them to objects we have now. They were able to match the objects to when they were used on our class timeline. There were some important discussions about how to look after
As part of their science topic ‘Planting and Growing’ Primary 1 planted sunflower seeds last week. The children were very excited and now have to care for them to help them grow. They need soil, water and sunlight for them to grow. The children will be keeping a diary about their growth and will be looking for new parts of the flower growing. They will be also be measuring how tall they get. Some
Letters were issued on Friday 20th of January to parents/guardians to advise that we will be receiving an HMIE inspection, week beginning Monday 6th of February. As part of the process, inspectors would like to receive opinions from parents regarding their thoughts on our school and your child or children’s education. We would really appreciate your participation in this survey. It should take no longer than 10 minutes and must
Tartan Tea All classes are now busy preparing for this year’s Tartan Tea performance on Friday 10th of February. Pupils in Primaries 1, 2 and 3 will perform a Scottish song or poem. Primary 4, 5, 6 and 7 are busy learning their Scottish poem which they will perform to their class. Finalists will be chosen to recite their poem to our Tartan Tea judges, and they will select a
Just to remind everyone that this week is infant registration. Children who will be 5 years between 1 March 2017 and 28 February 2018 should be registered for school this week. Registration times left this week are: Wednesday 3-4pm Bring your child’s birth certificate and proof of address (Council tax bill/copy of missives or let agreement and a utility bill). We look forward to seeing you then.
Wow what a busy week we had last week! In maths, we have been learning about regular and irregular 2D shapes. We drew them on whiteboards with our partners and played a shape dominoes game. We moved on to working out which regular shapes we could use to make tessellation patterns then had fun trying out our ideas with paint and by drawing around 2D shapes. In PE, we started
