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P3/2 September Update
In Numeracy, Primary 3/2 have been exploring place value and number processes with Mrs Daisley. On Thursdays and Fridays, they have been exploring measure and using their estimation skills.
In Literacy, the children are mostly reading two books a week in class and these are the titles covered in September by each group:
Ants
Monty and the Ghost Train
Monty and the Crab
Monty at McBurgers
The Fox and the Stork
The Old Woman and the Hen
The Fox and the Rabbit
The Bears and the Honey
Bees
Red Ted at the Beach
Red Ted goes to School
Little Rabbit
The Sun and the Wind
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
Max and the Cat
Max and the Drum
Pirate Pete and the Monster
Butterflies
The Princess and the Pea
Mamba & the Crocodile Bird
Pete Little
Kiboko & the Water Snake
Joey
House-hunting
The Clever Penguins
The Flying Fish
Ladybirds
The Secret
The Falcon
The Crystal Unicorn
Grandma’s Smile
Steggie’s Way
MacTavish’s Creature
As well as working hard in Literacy and Maths every day, Primary 3/2 have been learning how to prepare different foods. So far they have made popcorn, mini pizzas, stewed apples and potato scones. The children have really enjoyed putting their skills to good use and having tasty treats!
The children are doing ball skills and playground games in PE and continue to work on listening carefully to follow instructions accurately.
Here’s what some of our learners had to say:
Brendan – I loved minibeasts – animals like worms and butterflies, caterpillars and stuff. We did it with Miss Gallagher up in the science room.
Chizzy – we just started Space with Miss Gallagher.
Zain – We’re doing Space again.
Brendan – I think there’s 62 moons on Venus.
Nieve – camouflaging butterflies – colour them in. Bright and colourful. They can camouflage so the birds won’t eat them.
Brendan – in trees.
Nieve – in leaves. They look like they have 4 wings.
Chizzy – moths looks scary. They have eyes to scare away predators and to look like a much bigger and stronger animal like an owl. *Mrs Cooney – brilliant!*
Brendan – catch butterflies in nets. Went outside to find butterflies and minibeasts. Lots of wasps.
Brendan – 3 plus 2 and then you add on the 10 (3 steps x add x add x) Some games are up to 1000. Number counters – what is in between 55 and 57. The number after and before. The bear on TopMarks – you give it cupcakes so like 2+6 and you give it 8. We changed the big 100 square in class so it goes the other way – numbers go up instead of down.
Zain – Basketball Games on TopMarks
Nieve – TopMarks Robot Addition
Chizzy – up to 999. Before and after numbers. The big number square.
Brendan ICT room – logged in and logged out.
Zain – playroom played in there and then went back to the ICT room with Miss Gallagher.
Chizzy – We made something a few weeks ago with Mrs Daisley
We made these apple things. We had to take all of the skin and cooked it. Cored it.
Zain – we made pizza in the playroom!
Brendan – and we made potato scones and they were delicious!
Nieve – In the playroom we made popcorn. Zain and Eesa missed out.
Brendan – we got sugar and the sugar was the best part!
Brendan – really liked reading Pete Little and House-hunting . We each read a different part Baby Bear, Mummy Bear and Daddy Bear.
Grannie Mainland wrote.
Zain – really liked reading the Bears and the Honey
Granny Island visited.
Nieve – favourite reading book was The Flying Fish because the little boy didn’t have a kite and his dad made one for him. I think my uncle would be able to make me one because he is good at fixing things.
Remember if you have achievements from outside of school, we’d love to celebrate your success with you – bring in your trophies, medals, certificates etc just like these brilliant pupils did:
Minutes from Parent Council meeting
Please find below the minutes from last week’s Parent Council meeting:
Holy Family P.S.
Parent Council Meeting – AGM
Wed 18th September 2024, 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Agenda
1 School Prayer
2 Welcome/Introductions
3 Head teachers report – Mrs Harley
4 Nominations for PC positions
5 Christmas coffee morning
6 Potential Christmas Fayre organised by Leeann Gillespie
7 Other fundraising
8. Halloween Disco
9. Mr Creilly Leaving
10. A.O.C.B
11. Next Meeting
School Prayer
Jesus, Mary and Joseph,
Guide us, protect us, and help us to do good things for Holy Family Primary and our community.
Amen
Attendees:
Gillian Mackissack – Ella P2
Adele Duffy – Chair
Natalie Battersby
Carol Anne Doherty
Laura Murphy
Yvonne Currie – Treasurer
Lyndsay Donnelly – Secretary
Mrs Harley
Apologies:
James Duffy -Sophia P1
3 Head teachers report – Mrs Harley
• Mrs Harley provided copy of constitution -for review and update
• Copy of CoC to be read an signed by all members
• Activities supported by cluster support teacher
o Number Box
Read, Write, Ink
o Comprehension group
o Rainbow Reading
o Direct Intervention
o English language teacher
o ASNA – targeted support
• How are kids identified? – via HT and interaction with class teachers?
• Community of faith – School attendance at Fth Browns Mass was well attended
• Mother Angeline statue blessing – 6th November – will review kids’ attendance
• Confirmation prep in progress with support from FFM
• Residential session – parental input session – details required from the facility and dates to be confirmed
• Attendance – figures are positive across the school with HFPS scoring the best in the cluster @92%
o Target set at 95% (no more than two weeks absent per school year)
o Mrs Harley sending visual to all parents via email and comms channels
o Looking at strategy to encourage pre-holidays attendance
o Reminder ***Ability to report absence via Parent Portal
• Newsletter issued via link to GLOW and can be accessed there
4 Nominations for PC positions
2 new nominations for PC members – LD to email to arrange attendance at next session
Monisha Jose P1
Sandra Maguire P2
Chair – Previously Adele, replaced by Gillian McKissick
Secretary – Previously Lyndsay Donnelly, replaced by Laura Murphy
Treasurer – Previously Yvonne Currie replaced by Natalie Batttersby
Bank Mandate to be changes to include all three signatories
Vice Chair – Role Vacant
5 Christmas coffee morning/ Potential Christmas Fayre organised by Leeann Gillespie
• LD/AD – arrange time with LG to discuss proposal
6. Other fundraising – Possibilities – Bucket Collection, Silent disco
7. Halloween Disco – Dates to be confirmed – LD to contact Calvin for DJ support
8. Mr Creilly Leaving
9. A.O.C.B
10. Next Meeting – Sept Meeting changed due to availability, review dates for Oct due to poss clash with Halloween discos
Weekly Diary
Weekly Diary 16th September
Please click to read this week’s diary:
September Newsletter
Please see the most recent newsletter.
The links do not work due to the file type. Here are the links that are mentioned:
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/nl/holyfamily/
Weekly Diary 26th August
Parents Portal
You will be able to access your child’s school report on ParentsPortal shortly. If you need further information, please contact the school office.
RRSA Pupil Questionnaire
RRSA Pupil Questionnaire link:
P4 February Learning Update
In February, Primary 4 welcomed back Mrs Cooney. The children have all worked so hard learning all about Shape and Tessellation in maths. They had some hands-on investigation as discovered that squares, rectangles, triangles and hexagons tile really well with each other as you can see in these stamper pictures: 
They also looked at tiling with more than one shape and came up with some beautiful patterns that all the teachers would love to have in their bathrooms for sure! Some are here:
It is now Lent so we do something a bit different every Friday in the lead up to Easter to raise food and money for the food bank and our Lenten charities. Recently we had Odd Sock day and wore our most unusual socks:
It hasn’t all been silly socks, though. The children have been working very hard on Writing and concentrating on the Recount genre. We planned a piece together all about a typical week in Primary 4 and here you can see the plan and then a link to the finished piece. Top contributors earned Star Writer status – well done!
Our First Holy Communicants are preparing to make their Sacrament very soon. Mrs Daisley is helping to guide them in this as are their parents at home and for this we are very grateful. Thank you to all parents who are helping with homework and extra research projects as part of our topic on Scottish Inventors, too.
