Today, the boys and girls researched and discussed possible crafts to make and sell at the Christmas Fayre at the end of November. Tomorrow in class, we will settle on which idea to go with and begin making, pricing and advertising for the big day!
Category Archives: Leadership
Fair Trade Tuckshop
Or Fair Trade and Focus on Food committee are running a Fair trade tuck shop on the 1st Friday of every month. Items are priced from 50p-£1.50 and will be on sale at playtime. This is aimed at raising awareness of Fair trade.
Focus on Food / Fairtrade Group
Today was our first meeting of the Focus on Food / Fairtrade Leadership committee group. We had a group discussion about what we want the group to achieve this year and voted for 3 aims for the year. Some children researched fairtrade snacks for a possible Fairtrade tuckshop while others created a ‘Courgette Loaf Cake’ using produce from our garden in the Learning Kitchen. We can’t wait until our next session!
50th Anniversary Garden Party
A fantastic time was had by all at our 50th anniversary garden party. Children showcased their knowledge and skills by leading parents and members of the community on a scavenger hunt round our vegtable beds, mini beast hotel, sensory garden and ornamental plants.
Our fabulous parent council lead a community event with the mounted police, dog handlers, fire brigade and various sweet treats!
Thank you to everyone helped organise this celebration that brought members of our community together.
Focus On Food
Breakfast Fritatas were cooked at today’s P4-P7 Focus on Food group.
Dance class
Our new dance class has been working very hard learning some street dance skills. Thank you to Peyton for being a fantastic photographer. By Peyton B P2.
Focus On Food – Leadership Academy
Focus on Food Leadership Academy prepared carrot and coriander soup in preparation for our ‘Come Dine With Me’ parents event. We are looking forward to preparing our main course and desserts over the next few weeks.
Our Entries for Chryston Horticultural Show
Good luck to all pupils whose work has been entered in the garden show. Some of the entries are featured below.
Our garden club have entered the inter schools challenge where they had to create a garden produce display (3 shown), create a Mr Potato Head (2 shown), display 3 potatoes (not shown) and show their heaviest potato (not shown).
Pla and P1b created lovely krispie cakes and the three best from each class have been entered.
Our focus on food academy baked and decorated cupckaes and the best three are shown below.
Several classes created greetings cards and their own creations for the show.
Mrs Charles worked with pupils to arrange vases of garden flowers.
P4-7 Leadership Academies 26 August 2015
Our senior pupils had a great time in their academies today. Their first task was to discuss and agree on 3 outcomes they want to achieve this year and start to plan how they will be successful. We will share these outcomes with you very soon!
It was harvest time for the garden academy. Mrs Quinn showed the pupils how to dig up carrots, onions and potatoes and they also started weeding the flat beds. Many of the sunflowers planted by P3 last term have grown tall and strong. They look lovely in our garden. I wonder what they will cook in our learning kitchen with their produce?
Our focus on food academy baked cupcakes this morning and decorated them this afternoon with the support and guidance of Mrs Martin, Mrs Ritchie, Ms Gillespie, Mrs Bowden and Mrs Duncan. Thank you Mrs Home and Mrs Armour for donating cup cake items today! We had a great time!
I was delighted to choose the top three designs to enter the Chryston Horticultural Society Annual Show on Saturday. Good luck!
The eco committee worked hard to develop their ideas for school improvement. Mrs Grant was very impressed!
The fairtrade committee created designs for their own logo and came up with some great suggestions to raise awareness of fairtrade and fund raise at the same time. Mrs McDaid thinks that her team will do very well this year and she has been amazed by their great ideas. Well done!
The Pupil Council were designing school mascots today. I wonder what the winning design will be? Mrs Fisher will reveal this exciting information very soon!
Ths sports leadership academy worked hard with Ross Sweeney, (Active Schools Co-ordinator), Mrs Green (Parent) and Mrs McCluskey (Classroom Assistant). They spilt into 3 teams to plan a “Road to Rio’ Running Challenge for P4-7 pupils during lunchtimes. They have many events to lead this year including our nursery and primary sports days.
Our enterprise committee have many great ideas for whole school events this year such as a junior master chef challenge and a talent show. I am confident that Ms Brunton will lead her leaders to put on some fantastic events this year!
P4 Eco-Day Activity
Today we sorted and counted the litter that P2/3 had collected from playtime. We then created a graph and it showed us the types of litter that had been dropped and we could see how healthy or unhealthy we are being!
We noticed that crisps and sugary snacks were a popular snack choice and fruit was the least popular, when we think it should be the opposite.
However, we did think that our drinks are quite healthy as we drink a lot of milk and water.
We were shocked at how much litter was on the ground and we encourage other children to use the playground bins. Thank you!
