The Green Group decided that for a Christmas Enterprise project they would donate some toys to Yorkhill Children’s Charity to be distributed to children in hospital over Christmas.  After collecting the toys the Green Group delivered them to the new Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow where the charity volunteers gratefully accepted the donations saying they would make  sure they went to deserving children.  Thank you to all of you who donated to this great cause.

This morning we all came in to a great Christmas surprise as Mrs Neil has organised an outing for us all to Rosebank Garden Centre for a festive snack and a visit to Santa’s Grotto.  The big man himself even put in a special appearance!  All our pupils were excellent ambassadors for the school displaying great behaviours and really enjoyed their morning!  Thanks must also go to all of the staff at Rosebank who made us all feel so welcome!  We would thoroughly recommend a visit there if  you are looking for something  festive to do over the next few weeks.

The staff and pupils had a wonderful Christmas lunch at Firpark High School today.

We would like to say a big thank you to the staff and pupils who prepared and served us a delicious lunch.

#christmaslunchfunturkeyandstuffingforall

We are proud to say that we have once again retained our Eco-Schools Green Flag Status for another two years.  Big thanks go to Julie who gathered and submitted all the evidence for us and of course well done to all the pupils who did the work.  Next year Kay is going to maintain the standard in her Outdoor Learning classes and we may even begin working towards the next stage of the award.

We had a great day at East Kilbride Shopping Centre on 7th December Carol Singing to raise money for Ronald McDonald House.  This was the first year we had taken part in this and all the pupils who attended   as part of our choir did a great job, we are very proud of them!  It was a great afternoon and got us even more into the festive spirit!

We had a great morning at the Motherwell Civic pantomime today.  Jack and his friends (even the scary giant) gave us all a great morning of entertainment and all of our pupils (and staff!) were on their best behaviour!  We thoroughly recommend that you can get along if you have the chance as it is a great show and we are sure you will really enjoy it!!!!  A big thank you must go to all the staff at the Civic who looked after us so well too!

We just wanted to show you how great Gordon has got on with his Cello playing!  Gordon had only been playing for less than an hour when he was able to play this well!

We raised a fantastic £426 for Children In Need through a whole range of activities on Friday, we will put photos up to show you this week but thank you to everyone for your support!

As you can see the weather has not put us off our Outdoor Learning training today!

Thank you to all who came along to parents’ night on 13th November, here are the feedback reviews we have received so far, as you can see all are very positive!

“Seemed well organised, good to see visuals on progress”

“Good to hear how well he is getting on and meet up with his teachers”

“We were given a lot of info on how they are doing. Never felt rushed. All my fears of school at first are gone.  The staff are all lovely and so welcoming.”

“We really enjoyed parents’ night. Happy and excited at all he is doing and going to do.  Happy Learning experience.”

“Good! Happy!”

Thanks to all our parents and carers who have taken the time to respond!