Our P7 pupils have been working extremely hard to prepare for their graduation. I have been lucky to have seen a few snippets of the rehearsals and was very impressed!
We would like to invite our P7 Parents and Carers to join us for this very special event. The graduation will begin at 1.30pm and will last until approximately 2.30pm when light refreshments and snacks will be served in our community garden, weather permitting.
The weather forecast is mostly cloudy with a couple of showers so we are hoping we can go ahead on 2 June as planned. Please join us on the grass areas next to the nursery/P1 playground for a lovely day together.
The races will take place as follows –
P3 and P4 9.15am-10.30am
P1 and P2 10.45am-12.00pm
P5, P6, P7 1.00pm-3.00pm
Please arrive 5-10 minutes before the event and sign in at the tables provided then make your way to the speactators area to cheer on our budding athletes. Some seating will be provided. If additional seating is required, please ask a member of staff on the day.
Fall back day 1 is 3 June. Forecast is intervals of cloud and sunshine with a shower.
Fall back day 2 has been changed to 11 June to accomodate other school events at this busy time of the year. Forecast is considerable cloud with a shower in spots.
I haven’t planned a fall back 3 date yet. Let’s hope we don’t need it!
We were set a challenge at the start of May to design and make a family board game. We had great fun doing this. Here is one of our finished games. Our teacher was delighted with our efforts and can’t wait to try them all. We will show more of them in future blogs.
“I decided to make my board game about puppies because I love them. I also have a lovely dog of my own. We even made every single bit ourselves at home. It is good to work together as a family. My friends in the class and my teacher were very impressed.” Zoe
On Thursday morning we held an Outdoor Learning Event for our parents. We went into the Memorial Garden to look at the flowering fruit trees to study the blossom. We were also set a mathematical challenge to find a variety of different angles in the garden.
Shannon noticed that there were right angles on the stepping stones.
Kyle noticed that a straight angle could been seen along the top of the fence. Well spotted!
Several of the class noticed the set of acute angles in the spokes of the wheel which is part of the memorial plaque on the wall.
The water butt gave us a chance to look at reflex angles.
The angle that caused us the biggest problem was the angle of the rain!! We continued our learning back up in the classroom where we made bio-degradable pots and planted a variety of different seeds.
The pots were made with old newspapers and a special wooden tool – and our talents too of course.
We also got the parents involved.
“I loved doing it – and it was easy and good fun.” Leo
“I found it easy to do after watching Leo.” Cameron
We are going to fill the pots with seeds and start them growing in the classroom. Later on we can plant them straight into the garden still in their newspaper pots.
“The seeds we planted were special ones. They came in a tape and you planted them like that. We thought it would be easier than loose seeds – but it was difficult to keep the tape in the soil. We then put the seed tray in a propagator. It is like a little greenhouse and you can keep the seeds warm to help them grow.” Leah, Maaria and Skye
On Wednesday 27th May P5/6 invited parents and carers to help us in our school garden. There was a big turn out from parents, grandparents and even sisters. We had great fun and managed to get a lot of work done.
We dug over our vegetable beds and planted potatoes and shallots. We used hanging baskets to plant strawberries and tumbling tomatoes. Purple Haze carrots and Blood Red onions were thinned out and transferred from pots into grow bags. Pupils worked hard to weed our flower planters and added beautiful bright flowering plants.
The Parent Council are running their shorts and shades discos in the school hall tonight Pupils pay £2, which includes a drink and crisps.
P1-3 Disco 6.30-7.30pm
Enter and exit school via main door using the one way system.
P4-7 Disco 7.45-8.45pm
Enter via the nursery gate and exit via the main door.
All pupils should be dropped off and collected from the discos.
See you there!
Our Primary School Sports Day will go ahead on Tuesday 2 June, weather permitting ofcourse! Please join us on the grass areas next to the nursery/P1 playground for a lovely day together.
The races will take place as follows –
P3 and P4 9.15am-10.30am
P1 and P2 10.45am-12.00pm
P5, P6, P7 1.00pm-3.00pm
Please arrive 5-10 minutes before the event and sign in at the tables provided then make your way to the speactators area to cheer on our budding athletes. Some seating will be provided. If additional seating is required, please ask a member of staff on the day.
Primary 4 smelled and tasted some fabulous herbs in the classroom. We found out that Rosemary was useful during plague times to get rid of bad smells. We also found out that Chives were used in China as far back as 300BC and were used to make antidotes for poisons. Did you know that Mint is an invasive herb? This means that it takes over other herbs and plants, so it is best to put it in a pot instead of the garden.
Our class went out into the garden and started decorating plant pots in which we planted herb seeds. Some of us chose to plant Dill, Parsley, Basil, Coriander and Tarragon.
At the end we got a stick and wrote our name and what herb plant we planted and stuck it in the pot. Hopefully, they’ll grow into herb plants and we look forward to using them in our recipes.
If you are a parent or guardian of a child in Primary 4, I’m sure you will already have received a fabulous invitation to our Parent’s Open Event on the 27th of May 2015 at 9.30am. Please come along tomorrow and find out what the children of P4 plan on doing with these interesting resources!
Miss O’Neill.
A new lunch menu was issued to all families on Friday 15 May. The menu starts on Monday 18 May on week 2. Please click on the link below to view the new menu.
Pre-Order Parent’s Lunch Menu 15 May 2015
Please note – The previous menu for 10 June will remain the same because our new entrant pupils and parents are joining us for lunch on this date and they have already selected their meals from this menu. Therefore the menu for 10 June is detailed below –
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