For our final leadership academy the pupils enjoyed preparing a treat of strawberries and bananas dipped in melted milk chocolate. They also got to try white and dark chocolate. All the ingredients were Fairtrade. Pupils also learned about the importance of Fairtrade and how it helps farmers around the world. Well done boys and girls for raising enough money from the sale of your flapjacks to enjoy your treat!! Both
Bravo to our French Champions today! We have a lovely afternoon showing our invited guests everything that we have learned this year, singing songs and practising taking orders in French. Thank you to everyone that came along. I hope you were impressed with our superstars, I certainly was. Merci!
Today was all about preparation for our French Cafe on Wednesday 29th of May. Some of us prepared some Powerpoint Presentations to teach our visitors a little French. Others enjoyed our role-play area where we had a practise of being the waiter/waitress or the customer. It was great fun and a very busy afternoon. Please can you return the slip to say if you will be attending or not, if
What a fabulous day Aitkenhead Primary had as we celebrated ‘International Day of Happiness.’ HUGE thanks to Mrs McGown for her super artwork, Miss Hesford for delivering awesome dance classes to all pupils and Mr Fitzpatrick for his fantastic, entertaining Magic Show. A special thanks to the Parent Council for their support which allowed our very hardworking Rights Respecting School Steering Group members to wear their very own t-shirts designed
This month our ‘Right of the Month’ is Article 29 (Please see picture below). We are celebrating ‘International Day of Happiness’ on Wednesday 20th which will highlight our happy personalities and allow pupils to explore their talents and abilities in dance! Please dress down in bright, happy BUT comfortable colours!
Keeping Scotland 🏴 Beautiful – Marine Art Litter Competition. 👍🏻Well done to our Eco & Outdoor Learning team for producing this fantastic piece of artwork to raise awareness about the detrimental effects of plastic in our sea to marine life. HUGE thank you also to our janitor Mrs McGown for all her help in getting our design ready for our competition deadline. ⭐️ 👏🏻
Our ‘Marine Litter’ Art design is now well underway ! 🌊👏🏻 Our Eco team had a super crafty afternoon creating plastic model fish 🐠 to raise awareness of the damage plastic causes in our sea to marine life. The children each wrote a personalised message to coincide with their anti-plastic littering campaign! They also chopped up plastic straws, placing them in the belly of their bottle to represent
Today Jenna (P4) and Ethan (P3) updated the pupils at assembly on our Rights Respecting School journey. Thank you to both of you. We are pleased to announce we have received our Bronze Award and are now working towards silver! Well done Aitkenhead Primary School 😄👏
Last week our French Champions led the learning by recapping the French food and drink vocabulary to the group and leading a game of heads down/thumbs up in French. They were all superstars! Bravo! They learned how to ask someone what they would like to drink and practised during some role-play activities. Then they started creating Cafe Menus for the French Cafe next term. The French Champions chose the next
‘APS Bin Brigade’ 😃👏🏻🗑 It was brought to the Eco teams attention that the pupils at our school are a little confused over what rubbish to put in the 4 different bins in our dinner hall. To address this problem, the children decided to design & create characters that look like the different bins so that children know where to recycle their rubbish. We then did a vote to
