The school is delighted to announce that Miss Alison Sommerville has been appointed the new Head Teacher and will take up her post in August 2017. This week, Miss Sommerville visited the school to meet pupils and staff. We look forward to welcoming Miss Sommerville in August.
We would like to remind you that this Saturday 17th of June is our local Viewpark Gala Day. This year the Royal Party has been chosen from our school. Our theme is ‘Aitkenhead Rocks.’ Pupils and parents are encouraged to dress as rockstars, come along and join in the fun. The parade will leave Smurfit car park at 10.30am. We would love as many of our pupils, parents and families
Today we were learning all about our amazing brains. We designed questions to guide our research and enjoyed using the i-pads and books to locate the answers. We will use what we found out to create information posters. We had fun rotating around brain stations where we got to test each part of our brain and see how well it works. To test our co-ordination we tried to balance a
Thank you Mrs Millar for these wonderful photos from the beat the street walk last night organised by The Parent Council. Around 60 people took part and contributed to our climb up the leaderboard. We are now in 12th place on the total points leaderboard and 20th place on the average points leaderboard!! Wow boys and girls this is amazing!! The weather is going to be beautiful over the
Primary 3 have been learning about the traditional tale ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’ through drama. Children worked in groups to think of adjectives to describe the troll then created a still picture of the big, ugly troll using everyone in their group…. and what scary, mean and ferocious trolls we had!! Children wrote a list of questions they would like to ask the troll and this week they will
Our Parent Council have organised a weekly event to get together and play beat the street, gaining points for our school. This event is open to all pupils and parents of Aitkenhead. Meet: The park next to the back gate/Birkenshaw Sports Barn Time: 6.30pm When: Every Wednesday 24th May until 21st of June Remember to bring your key fobs and cards. All pupils must be accompanied by an adult. LETS
Today two Primary 7 pupils, Mrs Devine, Mrs McCafferty (UGS) and Mrs McHenry (Bothwell PS) attended North Lanarkshire Council’s 2+1 Modern Language Awards at Airdrie Football Stadium. I’m delighted and extremely proud to say that our cluster won a special award for good practise of Primary and Secondary transition. Our cluster schools work collaboratively to plan and resource a progressive modern language programme to ensure a smooth transition for children from
Information for Parents P7 Visits – Tuesday 6th and Wednesday 7th of June P7 Parents’ Visit – Wednesday 7th of June 4pm-5.30pm Your son/daughter will attend Uddingston Grammar on 6th and 7th June for a two day induction. They will follow their August timetable and get a taste of life at the Grammar. Pupils can bring a packed lunch or buy lunch from the school canteen but must not leave
The boys and girls in P2 have been revising their 2D and 3D shapes. They have enjoyed searching the school grounds looking for shapes. They found lots! They have also been using 2D shapes to make repeat patterns in class.
Primary 1 have been enjoying learning all about forces in our new science topic. We have been learning about push and pull. Some children brought in toys from home which need a push or a pull force to move. They enjoyed sharing them with the rest of the class.
