The Glasgow Science Centre have announced that they will be bringing a little bit of science into homes everyday from tomorrow at 10am.

Why not try out some of their suggestions at least a couple of times a week!! suitable for all year groups

Thanks

Mrs Anderson

Hi everyone,

Joe Wicks also known as the body coach has nominated himself as the nations PE teacher. He has said on his you tube channel from Mon-Fri at 9am. This should help to keep all children active during this time. Even twice a week would be great and can be adapted for younger children also, so should be suitable for all p1-7 groups.

Have fun trying some of these everyone

Mrs Anderson

As we have received official confirmation that schools are to close to children on Friday I would like to clarify the following points to avoid unncecessary confusion and alarm.

As you may be aware all staff will report to work in Holy Family Primary on Monday to receive clarification as to what our role will be during this crisis. We will continue to communicate with you through our school website and twitter account.

Work suggestions will be posted there for each class and updated regularly by Miss Gallagher and Mrs Anderson who are confined to working from home. Please contact Miss Gallagher on gw10gallaghergillia2@glow.sch.uk

The tasks will be a mixture of open ended and set activities which can be completed at home and will cover revision tasks and new learning.

I am very aware that not all families have multiple laptops and that older children of high school age will have priority in their usage of ICT in relation to exam preparation. As a result we will ensure that we provide a range of activities that are not all internet based.

I am very aware that many of our children are highly anxious as to the current corona virus situation and that you yourselves will be juggling complex family situations including childcare. My intention is not to add to that stress by imposing a long list of school work.

Please be aware that not every task set by the teacher has to be completed and that most importantly NO-ONE will ” get into trouble” if work is not completed.

Our curriculum includes PE, eg.football in the garden, art, eg. junk modelling/painting/drawing, drama, eg role play of book characters, science, eg. cooking, growing plants from seeds and so much more. Play is also integral to  learning so let the children play imaginative games as well as old favourites such as hide and seek, tig, skipping ropes, hopscotch or board games, snakes and ladders, four in a row etc. Please tweet us pictures of your adventures if you can and help us all to stay connected in the weeks ahead.

The one thing I would ask is that the children keep a short daily journal stating what they have done each day as this will help their feeling of achievement and provide a great starting point for when we return to school. I would also hope that this will make an incredible keepsake of this most extraordinary time in all our lives.

You all have my email and I will be available there to help in any way I can as I continue to work in the school but very much in partnership with yourselves in this most challenging of times.

Please read this message from Pope Francis below

God Bless

Mrs F Wilson

“Tonight before falling asleep think about when we will return to the street.

When we hug again, when all the shopping together will seem like a party.

Let’s think about when the coffees will return to the bar, the small talk, the photos close to each other.

We think about when it will be all a memory but normalcy will seem an unexpected and beautiful gift.

We will love everything that has so far seemed futile to us. Every second will be precious.

Swims at the sea, the sun until late, sunsets, toasts, laughter.

We will go back to laughing together.

Strength and courage.”

Primary 4 have enjoyed taking part in fair trade fortnight. We learned about where chocolate came from and we used fair trade dark chocolate to make Rice Krispie cakes for the fair trade coffee morning. In Primary 4 we have been learning how to write instructions. We were  then able to write our very own instructions on how to make Rice Krispie cakes.

We have continued with new sounds and common words within Literacy, and Mrs Simpson is very proud of all of our achievements. Within Taught Writing we have been using a different fairytale each week to help us write. We have been learning how to write letters and have written exciting letters to our friendly dragon, Elsa and the king of Fairyland.

Within Maths we have worked very hard on addition, subtraction, measure and money. It’s been a very busy month indeed. We love when we do our Maths stations and enjoy learning through play.

As we are still doing Fairyland as our topic we have enjoyed reading and acting out stories. We have also successfully created a variety of artwork based on Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella and The Three Billy Goats Gruff. Our classroom is looking fantastic with all our creations! The highlight of our month was when we arrived in school to find that our beanstalk had been started by the characters of Fairyland.

Within ‘This is Our Faith’ we have spent time thinking about Lent and how we can properly prepare ourselves for Easter. We thought of Lenten promises and ways we can spread God’s love.

Fairtrade is a topic which we have explored this month. We enjoyed learning about what it actually means. We also learned about how chocolate is made, and enjoyed designing our own chocolate bars. We made bunting for our class and also did some home baking for our Fairtrade coffee morning. Our Tiffin looked and smelled delicious. We hope our visitors enjoyed it.

Primary 2 have had a fabulous start to the year. We have a new topic which we all absolutely love – Fairyland!! It all started when we received a letter from a friendly dragon asking us to rebuild Fairyland  as it was lost. We have been working hard to design a new beanstalk for Jack. It looks great so far.  We have also made some pictures of the giant which are on display in our class. We got a shock when we came in and the Fairyland characters had started work on the new beanstalk for us. We have been using fairytales to give us ideas for our Taught Writing lessons, and have been writing letters to Elsa about our magical powers. We also enjoyed purposeful play which was topic themed. This gave us the chance to learn through play.

In literacy we have been so busy with new sounds, words and reading books. We also met two new characters this month: Veronica Verb and Naomi Noun. We had fun learning about nouns and verbs and when to use them.

We visited the library this month and had fun reading some lovely stories. We had the opportunity to return our old books and borrow a new one.

In Maths we have been working on multiplication and measure. We have had a ball using the pan balance to compare weights of items. We even used pencils to measure the length of each other. We like to be active when we learn so we have enjoyed sharing and making equal sets of items to help us with multiplication and division.

We are so luck to get to work with a specialist during P.E time. We have been learning football. We enjoy learning new skills and developing resilience through sports activities.

Within R.E we have been learning about the Epiphany of the Lord. We have also been thinking about the baptism of Jesus and the children have been thinking about their own baptism.

This will be carried out during Miss Gallagher’s ICT classes this week.

A huge thank you and well done to our Digital leaders for leading an ICT focused staff development after school this week.  The focus was on using PowerPoint and the children gave a clear demonstration on how to use PowerPoint and answered questions.  They then supported the staff to create their own powerPoints!