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Cross country
Well done to our brilliant cross country team for participating in the cross country heats. The course was really muddy and slippy so completing the course was a huge achievement!
Christmas choir
Well done to the Christmas choir for performing before the Nativity on both days. They also entertained shoppers at Tesco and Morrisons!
Merry Christmas from Primary 3/4
Wow what another quick month this has been. We have all been very busy and hope you all enjoyed the Nativity. Primary 3/4 have had so much fun over December, we have been learning all about Advent and getting ready for our Christmas party.
Primary 3/4 and Miss Verrecchia are looking forward to 2020. We would like to wish everyone a very Happy and Holy Christmas and New Year.
Happy Christmas from Primary 5 and Ralph ,the elf.
We have had a visitor all through December in our class. His name is Ralph and he offered good advice on how to stay on the Good List. These kind girls made him miniature jotters and pictures to make him feel at home.
We wish you all a very happy Christmas.
Primary 2 December
Mrs Simpson and all the children in Primary 2 would like to wish you all a very happy and holy Christmas. We are looking forward to our Christmas holidays, but also can’t wait to come back fresh in 2020 to achieve even more. All the best from us to you!
November
November has been a particularly busy month here in Primary 7!
In Literacy, we have begun studying the novel, Divided City by Theresa Breslin which tackles the subject of sectarianism in our community.
This links well with work we have been doing with the anti-sectarian charity, Nil-by-Mouth in Social Studies. We had 4 sessions, over 2 weeks where we worked with the pupils from Mossend Primary School. We discussed many of the issues around tolerance, bigotry and prejudice and we have planned lots of trips and activities with P.7 from Mossend Primary School.
In Maths, we have been looking at decimal fractions and negative numbers. We looked at temperatures on thermometers to help us understand negative numbers on a number line.
We have now completed our work on genetic testing and the pupils created Powerpoints and wrote persuasive essays on this subject.
We had lots of trips this month too this month including a trip to the cinema in Braehead to see a movie to celebrate Film Week.
Another amazing trip we had was to The Sky Academy in Livingston. The children were made to feel very welcome and had the amazing opportunity to create their own short film. They were then given the opportunity to visit the call centre there and discuss the work opportunities available. The pupils were given their own pendrive with each group’s work attached and the rest of the school were able to share in their learning at assembly.
Primary 2
Primary 2 have had such a busy month. Preparation has began for our Nativity show ‘A Miracle in Town’. The children have their parts and have been working hard to learn their lines and songs.
We have continued work on addition and subtraction and have also covered a topic on shape. As always, a great deal of our work is practical using Seal Maths.
Within Literacy we have been doing more work on new sounds and common words. The children are getting so good at reciprocal teaching (teaching each other) by testing each other on what we have been learning. In writing we have had a go at writing a recount and have also been writing instructions. We especially enjoyed writing about how to make a jeely piece for Katie Morag.
The children have devoted lots of their prayers this month to their deceased loved ones as part of our work on the Month of the Holy Souls. We have learned the ‘Eternal Rest’ prayer and have been saying it daily.
As part of our Emotion Works syllabus, we have been identifying emotions and linking things that happen to us with how it makes us feel. The children made their own emotions using play foam and blank faces.
We have enjoyed some S.T.E.M time within our busy class this month. We were given the challenge of designing a new bridge for the Island of Struay as part of our topic. We made our way around a variety of stations (e.g spaghetti and marshmallows) and tried to design a safe bridge for the people on Struay to use.
Work began on our Christmas enterprise for our Christmas Fayre. The children had a ball making reindeer food and were so proud of the results.
Well done to the boys and girls in Primary 4 who are high achievers!
Thank you to our wonderful parents who donated so many sweets. We all appreciate your generosity
Primary 7 October
Primary 7 have been extremely busy this month and have had a range of great experiences which I am sure they have told you all about! However, here is a short update on what has been happening this month.
We are joining Mossend Primary School each Thursday for our Daily Mile to build positive friendships with children from other schools in our community.
We have completed our Social Studies Topic on the Scottish Parliament in anticipation of our visit to the Parliament buildings later this month.
In Maths we have worked hard on place value, weight and have started division with a focus on fractions and decimal fractions.
In Language we are continuing with our spelling programme and looking at the various strategies we have to help us spell unfamiliar words. We have focussed on improving our comprehension skills using our class novels too. There has been a fantastic improvement in the quality of handwriting from all pupils in addition to improvement in the presentation of tasks, well done!
In Storywriting, we have been focussing on writing a persuasive text on the pros and cons of genetic testing. The stimulus for this is the work we have been doing in science on genetics. This will make the basis for a review of assessment and moderation of attainment across the Cardinal Newman cluster.
We have begun our work with the charity, Nil By Mouth, an anti-sectarian charity who work with schools informing children of the detrimental impact that sectarianism has on our children and young people in our communities. Hopefully there will be a range of events that we will work with Mossend Primary on in the coming months. So far, all P6 and P7 children have attended interactive workshops on this project.
In P.E. we are very lucky to be working with Young Sports Leaders from S6 from Cardinal Newman each Monday. They are delivering a series of lessons on fitness with the class which will hopefully lead to a sports festival held in the high school in March/April of next year. Many of the pupil in class also successfully qualified for the Sportshall Athletic competition held in the Time Capsule on the 4th November.
The pupils in P7 have been involved in lots of active learning throughout the month of October from designing and carving pumpkins to attendance at the Sky Academy in Livingston. The pupils had the most amazing experience working in groups with Sky Staff in creating, directing and editing their own trailers for their movie ideas. Each child was given their own copy of the work produced to keep on a pen drive as a memento of their visit.
