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Weekly Post From Mrs Wilson 4.5.20

Good Morning Everyone

I hope that you are all well and that you are managing to stay safe and happy with your families.

I am so impressed with everything you have been getting up to and I love checking twitter each day to see the staff message for the day. It was Mrs Cameron today and  it reminded me of how much I miss you all . That could have made me feel sad but I wouldn’t let it so I checked in on the website to see what the teachers have been posting for your tasks and it all looks amazing ! I always knew that learning was fun but this is all so creative and a really good mix with the workbooks and textbooks you took home before we closed.

As well as working hard and staying safe it is really important that you are keeping to a regular sleep pattern. If you stay up too late and then sleep in too long it can make you feel really grumpy and low so try not to do that and it will keep you in a healthier routine.

Another thing that makes you feel more content is spending time with your pet if you have one. This is our cat called Floyd. He is over 20 years old but he is still quite frisky.

Although you might not think so looking at this next photo.

Cooking is still a great way to learn something new while you are keeping safe at home . What you learn just now will be useful for you both now and in years to come. Soup is a great way to make a meal that is healthy and nutritious ( and it lasts for days in the fridge and weeks in the freezer ) Here is a vegetable one and no – you’ve guessed it – it wasn’t me that made it !!!

I learned something new this week when my laptop screen went from this

to this  !!!!

I was so worried that I had lost all my hard work and really worried that I didn’t know how to fix it ! Luckily one of the other head teachers from Bellshill had experienced the same problem a few weeks ago so we did a video link on our phones and she explained to me how to repair it. I was so happy and I have learned that when you are stuck you just need to ask for help because I certainly couldn’t have done this by myself. An enormous thank you to Mrs Hunter from Lawmuir Primary, she gave me the support I needed and now I can help others if they get stuck like I did.

The weather has been lovely so I hope that you have been managing to get out each day for some exercise and making the most of your garden if you are lucky enough to have one. When we were out for our walk look what we came across ! Geese ! I am going to keep my eyes peeled for some more when we go out for our walk this evening

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Mrs Le Blond has been setting me a great example so our family has decided to grow some potatoes, well actually my daughter has…. She used an old clothes basket to do this and cut a few holes in the bottom for drainage. She is having an online competition with her auntie to see who manages to grow most!

Remember all you need is some  soil and old potatoes that are beginning to sprout. Have a go and let me know how you get on ! I am sticking to my garden pots and my favourite plant, lavender, whose smell always makes me feel calm. It is looking healthy too don’t you think ?

I am missing you all so much but keeping you in my prayers every day. I am thinking particularly of our First Communicants and that this Saturday coming would have been their First Holy Communion Day. Please pray for them as they will be feeling disappointed but ask that God grants them the strength to wait patiently for the time when they will be able to celebrate this sacrament. I can see the teacher posts about May altars so perhaps that would be a special way to mark this time as well as the month of Our Lady.

Boys and girls I need to go now as I have a microsoft teams meeting with some of the teachers to attend .

Update – here we were  at 12.14pm !

I want to leave you with a book by Charlie Macksey called The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse I was looking at over the weekend that made me stop and think. What do those words remind you of ?

Also this last image,

Mrs Le Blond always tells me ” This too shall pass .” and the horse is saying that too. The world may seem a scary and strange place at the moment but this will not be forever. Can you see the rainbow ?

I love you and miss you all,

Stay safe, calm, kind and happy.

God Bless

Mrs Wilson and all the team at Holy Family Xx

Mrs Wilson Weekly Update 30.3.20

This is the first of the weekly posts I am going to put out on the Monday of each week of term time to keep us all connected and let you know what I have been up to.

I can see from the website all the amazing variety of tasks your teachers are setting. Wow what choices and good fun too, just remember to do what you can. I know how busy your families are working from home too so do your best and don’t worry if your friends are doing more / less than you as it isn’t a competition .

If you have some time think back to your lenten promise which will still be hanging on the tree in our school hall just beside the boat for foodbank donations. Can you remember what you promised ? How are you getting on with that ? Do you remember we spoke about not giving up at our last assembly but about trying afresh every day ? We talked about making a daily act of kindness and how if we all did that every day then that would be 184 kind acts  multiplied by all the days of Lent. What a difference that would make to the world and most certainly to our own families right now, I’m definitely going to try harder with that idea, will you join me ?

Last week I was mostly down at the hub with some key workers’ children coming in for childcare. The children have been from different schools in Bellshill but they have all been amazing and have following their new routine well. They are doing Joe Wicks, the science centre live stream and relax kids / meditation at  the same time every day so they have a familiar daily structure even if  the staff working there are changing all the time.                                                     Last week all the headteachers from the Bellshill locality  worked together (at a 2 metre distance !! ) and we did a lot of planning and preparation work. You may have seen our photos on twitter !            We only found out that the  hub is opening at the weekend too for the children of key workers who need to work on those days so we are taking it in turns to be there. Here are Mrs Paterson and I on Saturday morning.

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I have now got to work from home  for the next few weeks until it is the Holy Family  turn for the staffing rota so I will be keeping safe at my laptop until then.

Remember  the Easter holidays begin  on Friday at 2.30pm so although you won’t be going away you will be getting a break from school work and will be able to relax for a fortnight.

God bless you all and keep you safe and healthy

I miss you all so much.

Take care of yourselves and your families and stay in, stay safe.

Love Mrs Wilson x

 

ACCESS TO DISTANCE LEARNING

Please note that Miss Gallagher has added new class headers to the main menu of our website.

This is where you will access suggested activities for your child on a weekly basis as they work from home.

The main page of the website will be used for whole school updates and should ensure that all information is as easy to access as possible.

Please keep in touch with us via twitter and keep all our spirits up as we move into the spring.

And an extra message especially to the boys and girls of our wonderful school.

Stay safe, stay happy and stay in whenever you can !

Keep close to God in your prayers and also in the kindness you show to others around you –  keep that vision and values statement alive in your own home every day.

Keep washing those hands and put your tissues straight into the bin.

I love you all very much and will see you soon

Take care

Mrs F Wilson x

P5 update from August and September

Over the past couple of months, P5 have been learning a lot about the Titanic and have even made a huge wall display of it; each making their own cabins and/or lifeboats. Did you know, there were only 20 lifeboats on the real Titanic but it should have had 64?!

The children also took part in a STEM activity to see if they could make a tinfoil boat that floated and could carry coins. We certainly have some budding engineers in our class!

In Health and Wellbeing, we each created our own Colour Monsters to explore feelings and emotions. They’re on display outside our classroom if you’d like to come and meet them.

In RE we listened to and discussed the story of Father Damien who lived with sufferers of leprosy. He was such a kind and inspirational man; he made a real difference to this outcast community.

As part of our topic The Titanic, the children worked in groups to try to put the inventions/events in order. It should give some parents out there a wee chuckle!

 

The children worked in groups to demonstrate working in canon, mirroring each other and matching.

P5 have been exploring movement: balance, weight through arms, jumping, inversion and rotation.

At the beginning of the year, our P5s worked in groups on 2D Shape.

The first Golden Time in the class saw our pupils working together socially in small groups. We even had a domino rally!

 

Our class were given potatoes FROM OUR GARDEN!! We made 4 kinds of potato wedges from them and they didn’t last long!

We also hosted a MacMillan Coffee Morning and raised £425! Well done to everyone involved and a huge thank you to everyone who baked, bought or donated – we couldn’t have done it without you.

 

Going Bananas for Fairtrade

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!

Reflective Friday January 2019 P6/7b

This month in maths we have been focusing on time and learning how to convert 12 hour time into 24 hour time and vice versa. In French we have learned about the weather and colours.  On Fridays, Cardinal Newman High School sports leaders have been coming to do P.E. with us and we are now learning skills in either netball, rugby or athletics . Cardinal Newman Science ambassadors have been in class too helping us learn about friction and air resistance.

We also got to question Dawn Childs in a live video conference, Dawn is Group Engineering Director at Merlin Entertainment. This was part of the Primary Engineering Young Leaders Award where we have to interview engineers as part of the award. This also helps us to see the jobs available to us when we are older.

We had super fun when the SSPCA came to visit us with their new robotic animals which we had to build and use code to move them around. We also played board games which helped us learn more about animals.

We have started our natural disasters topic and at present we are all busy making presentations on The Ring of Fire.

In literacy we are still trying out our paired spelling in order to help our spelling skills and have recently looked at the features of a newspaper report.

Our peer mediators did a small role play scenario at assembly to show everyone how it can benefit our school. Our rota is now up and running.

 

P4/5 Reflective Friday post

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!

 

November Reflective Friday P6/7b: St.Andrew’s Day

As part of book week Scotland we enjoyed choosing books to read to our friends in Mossend Primary.  We had fun deciding whether we could live without music or video games and we wrote a piece of discursive writing to give our views.

We have been working extremely hard on our enterprise projects with Entrepreneur Me.  Matt took a lot of persuading to give us our loans to get started.

Our P7s enjoyed a very busy week in Kilbowie making memories which will last forever and learning lots of new skills.  Over half of our class were involved in the local heat of the schools Athletics championships at Ravenscraig recently. Our school team finished in first place.

Some of our pupils travelled to St. Gerard’s Primary for netball. Well done St. Gerard’s and thank you for the hospitality.

In R.E we have created posters of Scottish Saints, this has helped us to understand why CNHS has chosen these house names .

We are all looking forward to the Christmas Fayre on Sunday 2nd December.  Please come along and buy our Christmas calendars and our key rings.

By Ammaar and Cathal