This will be carried out during Miss Gallagher’s ICT classes this week.
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Digital Leaders
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!
Enrolment of Primary One Pupils For Session 2020/21
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.
