We held an event in Fairtrade Fortnight to raise awareness of Fairtrade. The children had great fun decorating Fairtrade bananas, eating Fairtrade bananas and other healthy snacks at our chocolate fountain stall, baking using Fairtrade products such as Fairtrade sugar and also showing their support of Fairtrade by getting their faces painted with the Fairtrade logo.
Here are some photos from the event which raised more than £500 for Mary’s Meals!
This month has seen us say goodbye to Mrs Gardner and welcome to Mrs Cook and Mrs Wilson who will be working with us now.
We really enjoyed Global Play Day and had great fun using our imagination and developing our social skills. At Thinking Circles we had to justify our reasoning for repeating this in 2020, hopefully Mrs Wilson was convinced !
We all took part in the 2 day programme on Developing The Young Workforce and learned a great deal about the range of career opportunities that are available from being a teacher or an engineer right through to becoming an entrepreneur making bird food.Here are some photos of the humane mouse traps we were designing as part of our engineering focus with Mrs leblond.We have been starting to look at our environmental footprint and what we can do to affect and reduce this as part of our interdisciplinary learning this month. February isn’t over yet and we are looking forward to next week and the launch of Fairtrade fortnight when the whole school will be participating in lots of fun activities from face painting to baking banana loaf! Thursday will be our focus day for this and we are very excited by the wide range of ideas that are being suggested for us to raise awareness of Fairtrade fortnight.
In literacy we have been learning to write newspaper articles
In numeracy we have been deepening our understanding of subtraction and decomposition.
In RE we have been learning about the muslim faith and the significance of the Qur’aan. We have also been drawing our own Arabic prayer mats.
We are looking forward to the month ahead and addressing our social studies and technologies targets.
We have been given a huge responsibility in our class: a hatchery to take care of and prepare for our new arrivals, the brown trout eggs. We have been working hard to keep the water clean and cold.
However, it’s not all hard work in P4/5. We learned a bit about Robert Burns today as it’s his birthday. We learned what the song Auld Lang Syne is about and we sang it together while joining hands, just like we do at Hogmanay!
P4/5 were incredibly lucky to get to go to the Glasgow Science Centre on Thursday. We loved exploring the top level all about human biology and we are looking forward to learning more about how best to look after our bodies.
P1 have had a fantastic December. We worked so hard on our Nativity play and really enjoyed performing for all the mums and dads. We also really enjoyed our Christmas party where we did lots of Scottish dancing, had yummy treats and were even visited by Santa and his elf!
We also had a visit from one of Santa’s helpers, Elfie. He came to check that all the boys and girls were behaving in class and gave us presents of new books to read. Each day we opened a new present and enjoyed reading the book together.
We also went on a trip to the pantomime where we saw Jack and the Beanstalk. This was great fun. In literacy, we have finished learning all our initial sounds. In maths, we know our numbers to ten and have been working hard on 2D shapes. In Science, we have been learning about the season of winter and the North Pole. In HWB, we made fruit kebabs and discussed the different tastes and textures of the different foods.
P1 would like to wish everyone a very happy and holy Christmas.
What a busy month and it hasn’t even finished yet!
We started the month with a trip to the pantomime to see Jack and the Beanstalk. The boys and girls said it was brilliant! They really enjoyed the songs and the acting and had many, many favourite characters including the mum, the giant, MooMoo, Archie, Jack, the princess and Fairy Flora.
The boys are girls also contributed to the impressive grand total raised by the parent council at the Christmas Fayre by making tree decorations in the shape of reindeer faces and snowmen made of marshmallows. Well done everyone!
It was P4/5’s First Friday Mass this month, too, which focused on the season of Advent. The boys and girls did a wonderful job handing out hymn sheets, taking part in the offertory and being on the altar to do readings, bidding prayers and more. Mrs Daisley and Mrs Cooney were immensely proud of everyone who practised for our special mass.
This month we have had a special visitor to the class; one of Santa Claus’ special helpers, Ralph the Elf. He has visited every pupil in P4/5 and has given them all a letter and a chocolate. He had some serious messages for the boys and girls about how to stay on Santa’s Nice list. We all really like Ralph and here are some reasons why: he’s friendly but respectful; makes lots of spelling mistakes; he’s funny, smiley and silly; he makes us laugh and has big ears!
We also had the pleasure of watching the infants’ nativity show. The P4/5s used some excellent adjectives to describe it: nice, cool, good, amazing, brilliant, extraordinary, fabulous… and their favourite characters were the donkey – who was cute – and Nisha the inn keeper who is Zak’s little sister!
The P5s were very lucky and got a chance to go on a wee trip to do Arts and Crafts. They made presents and stable shapes using tiling and mosaics; they sang a silly song called Bubblegum and Fluff and played team games and quizzes. While the P5s were away, the P4s did their own arts and crafts in class, making wreaths and advent candles.
Finally, we enjoyed our Christmas party on Tuesday where we danced in traditional Scottish ceilidh dances and played some party games.
I daresay the boys and girls in P4/5 are now far too tired for Christmas so let’s just skip it this year – give Santa a year off!!
November was a very busy month for primary 6/7a, our Primary 7’s spent a week away in Kilbowie with Miss McGuire and the Primary 6’s stayed here with Mrs Leblond and Miss Gallagher. The primary 7’s had a great time and enjoyed all the activities that we took part in, coasteering and gorge walking were our favourites. Primary 6’s did a lot of learning while we were away, they designed their own children’s hotel and learned about remembrance day too.
In literacy, we all started new novels. We are using 2 Cathy McPhail books, Mosi’s War and Tribes, we are really enjoying them so far and can’t wait to keep reading. In Maths, we have been doing written and mental addition and subtraction. We are getting much better at this but need lots of practise. We have loved learning about schools in the Victorian era, we were really surprised about the punishments they used to receive and are very grateful that they are no longer used in schools.
We have also been very busy working on businesses for Entrepreneur me. We enjoyed thinking about what we could sell and creating our business plans. We are ready to start making our products and can’t wait to sell them during the nativity shows in a few weeks.
We are looking forward to the month of December and all the Christmas activities that we have coming up.
This month has been an important one for the children in our class who have been working hard to prepare for First Friday Mass which they will lead this Friday, All Souls Day. In preparation for this Mass, for the past few weeks we have been remembering our own loved ones who have gone before us, and the children have spent time practising their prayers which they will read on Friday.
On a different note, this month the children also had the exciting task of designing comic strips to teach other children about the health benefits of incorporating more eggs into their diet. These comic strips will be entered into a competition where the winner will have their comic strip drawn by a professional comic book artist!
The children got to see a Treasure Island production which took place within the school, and which they really enjoyed. They also loved doing their Halloween arts and crafts activities in the lead up to Halloween.
