Base 2 completed their road safety training on Friday, 9th June. Mrs Onions was very impressed with their knowledge of finding safe places to cross, looking for driveways and crossing at junctions. Everyone received a certificate and a bag of road safety goodies!

We celebrated with an afternoon of fun road safety activities, such as making traffic light biscuits, designing a new high vis vest, imaginative play with the cars and figures and sequencing road safety pictures to tell a story. We would like to thank our parent helpers for being so patient and helpful. They also received a bag of road safety goodies and flowers.

Well done everyone!

Well done to our winners of the JRSO competition to design a new Summer outfit for Strider! They each received a bag full of road safety goodies.

Our new Junior Road Safety Officer for P6 next year is Holly from Base 8. She completed the application form and interview process with great confidence.

Harrison Craig from Base 2 received an award for the most enthusiastic language learner in P1-4 on Tuesday, 23rd May. Miss Atkinson and Harrison attended the ceremony which was held at Airdrie FC. We were entertained by 2 school choirs and a ribbon dance! Well done Harrison Base 2 are very proud of you.

As part of our IDL theme of the seashore we have been learning about seabirds such as the amazing gannet. During purposeful play we have made 3D models of gannets using card, paper, scissors, glue and felt pens. The children had the choice of play dough, plasticine or lego to make a model and a toy gannet was introduced to the beach role play! At the literacy table we did some research in books on the parts of a gannet and enjoyed sharing any interesting facts. You can ask us anything about gannets now!

You will find Base 2 children out and about in the community learning about road safety as part of the Child Pedestrian Training Scheme. So far we have learned how to check for cars moving in driveways, to cross on a straight part of the road, not diagonally and to move away from parked cars if we can. A big thank you to our lovely parent helpers too.

Base 2 celebrated the end of their topic about France with a French breakfast for family and friends. Camembear made a guest appearance and parents had the chance to see the children’s work. We all enjoyed baguettes, croissants, brioche, cheese and jam. Thank you for your support with homework challenges and kind comments.

We had fun learning about the famous French artist, Georges Seurat (1859 -1891). He invented Pointillism which is using dots of colour to create pictures. We tried to copy this style by using cotton buds and paint palettes and also felt pens. Some groups were in the French cafe ordering baguettes and some were working on jigsaws from around the world. What a busy afternoon in Base 2!

Camembear is helping Base 2 to learn French. He will be visiting everyone’s house to see how Scottish people live and to practise French. He has his own suitcase and he has a diary to fill out each day. So far he has been swimming, dancing, playing football and been to a party! He is loving his stay in Scotland.