Our very own ‘Brownie’ on Thinking Day.
Primary 3 having fun and working cooperatively on the Global Big Play Day!
Primary 6/7B Reflective Friday
Welcome to our class Reflective Friday post.
In Maths, we have been learning about division and remainders in division sums. We have been dividing 4 and 5 digit numbers by 1 digit and we have also learned that remainders are extra numbers to any sum.
Earlier in the week we have also been doing multiplication In preparation for division.
In Literacy, we have been writing diary entries about our topic, WWII. We also have wrote evacuee letters pretending we were the children writing back to our Mothers in London. We have been reading more about our novels The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, and Goodnight Mister Tom.
In RE, We have been learning about the season of Lent and how is it special to us in this time. We also been learning the Seven Sacraments.
In Topic, we have been studying the Blitz and the Clydebank Blitz. As we said we wrote about evacuees and Diary entries. In addition to this, we have been learning about Blackouts and Rationing.
In P.E, we have been working Cardinal Newman High school on Wednesdays, and practising for Athletics, Rugby and Netball for the Commonwealth Games. We have also been doing Gymnastics on our own.
For Art, we have been painting propaganda posters and what they were used for. They look beautiful.
We have also been featured in Mossend Primary’s music video against Sectarianism, working with Nil By Mouth to create it.
We are very excited for next month and what we will learn!
Written by Maia McCabe and Sophie Hendry on behalf of P6/7B.
P6/7a
Primary 6/7a have been learning lots of new things with Mr Stewart . In P.E we have been doing Gymnastics and lots of different balances , headstands and rolls . In maths we have finished Multiplication by 10 , 100 , 1000’s and by single digits . As our topic is WWII we have been learning about The Blitz , Evacuation , Rationing , Anderson shelters and Morrison shelters . Also with our topic we used pastels to create an Art piece using silhouettes for The Blitz . In R.E we have learned about lent , Maximilian Kolbe and The Seven Sacraments.
We have been doing lots of lessons with Mr . Stewart and hope to do more in the coming week . We have been looking forward to learning more in march .
By Sophie , Kaia and the rest of P6/7a
HT Reflective Friday February 2018
Welcome to our school Reflective Friday Post.
February has been a busy month with lots of exciting experiences for our young people. We are looking forward to our 2 day Developing The Young Workforce programme which will focus at the P5-7 stage and will involve those pupils in a rotation of activities aiming to establish their personal skills and qualities and how these can be used to identify future suitable forms of work.
Our after school clubs are continuing in fundamentals, musical theatre, football, netball, sumdog and cross country. The commitment of the children to these activities is fantastic and the increase in their associated skills base is already clear to see.
Our Thinking Circles questions have related to our monthly SHANARRI focus of being Respected and have explored ways in which we can all show respect to one another and receive it in return. We linked this to Catholic Education Week and set our question within the context of all faiths. The main theme of our responses was that showing respect and kindness was integral to loving your God and living his values in your daily life.
We had a focus on Internet Safety as part of Internet Safety Day on the 6th March using the CEOP and Thinkuknow resources. The children showed a high level of awareness of how to keep themselves safe online and what behaviours were not acceptable. I would ask you to familiarise yourself with these websites and discuss these issues with your children as part of this effort to develop their understanding of keeping safe online.
On the 7th March we enjoyed Global Big Play Day where all classes participated in a day of free play without electronics of any form. The purpose of this is to encourage team work, turn taking, use of imagination and problem solving and the feedback from the pupils reflected this with comments such as playing made them feel free, happy, enthusiastic and normal. This is definitely an experience we will look to repeat next year if not on a termly basis and I will follow up on the children’s request for an after school play club.
Our P6/7 pupils enjoyed great success at the NLC athletics festival on the 2.2.18 and our P3 pupils were similarly enthusiastic in their participation at the Active Schools Play Festival on the 9.2.18. We are currently looking forward to the NLC Cross Country heats on the 28.2.18 and have been practicing hard in preparation for this.
Our teaching staff have recently undertaken additional training by the SAMS group in the use of ipads to support numeracy and have shared this with the rest of the staff as part of our school improvement plan priority to enhance teaching and learning in this area. Miss Gallagher has also undertaken full day training in Microsoft 360 which she is implementing in her whole school McCrone lessons. Mrs Leblond and Mrs Stevenson have also undertaken training in Primary Engineering which we will link to our Developing The Young Workforce focus and STEM subjects in particular.
The children should have completed their learning journeys today and set new targets forMarch. Please take some time to go through this with your child as we value your input and want to work closely with you to ensure success.
Mrs F Wilson
P6/7c
February:
P6/7c has been to Mossend P.S to be filmed for an anti- sectarianism video. We also made friendship bracelets with the Mossend pupils. We have been learning about equivalent fractions and also how to simplify them. We are continuing to learn more about World War 2. So far we have learned about evacuees and the Blackout. We are looking forward to learning more about the Clydebank Blitz and the Holocaust. In art we have been studying the work of Steven Brown, particularly his piece called McCoo. In science we have looked at living things and classifying them into vertebrates and invertebrates.
We are looking forward to the month of March for Fun Fridays. We are especially looking forward to science week.
On behalf of P6/7c, Emily and Cathal
1ST Reflective Friday of 2018 Mrs Stevenson and Mrs Byrne
RERC – THIS IS OUR FAITH As we Leave Christmas and January behind, Primary 2 have been looking at and learning about Jesus Family and Ours, Ordinary Time (Green) in the Liturgical Calendar and Liturgical Colours. (Green/Purple/Red/Pink/White-Gold) As we approach February, an early Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent (Liturgical Colour Purple) on the 14th February, the children will be learning about Lent, Alms Giving, Making Sacrifices and Thinking about and Caring for others as we approach this special prayerful time we give to God.
LITERACY P2’s first Star Writers of 2018 with their wonderful ‘Recount’ of Christmas Morning, and…
With some beautifully written thank you ‘Letters’ to Santa for their Special Christmas gifts.
Numeracy and ICT – Money, 2 Times Table and Sumdog!
The children have been enjoying using ICT to help actively participate in their learning. Here are some of the children in the ICT suite working with money, learning about their 2 times table through song and interactive games and in particular at the moment they are enjoying getting to know ‘Sumdog’ and have had fun using this site to find out what they know, as well as helping the children to develop their new learning in school and at home as well.
People Past Events and Society / Art /Literacy Scotland – Robert Burns As the children learned about their Scottish Heritage and Robert Burns with Mrs Stevenson , here they are as they design and make new kilts for him using a variety of colours and media.
Here are some of their fantastic designs. “I’m sure Robert Burns would be delighted P2.” Great Work!
Writing and Co-operative Learning and Robert Burns
Here, the children are working and supporting each other, as each person in each group individually takes turns, to write down a word that begins with their groups letters: R. O. B. E. R. T. B.U.R.N.S.
This gave the class a selection of words that could help them begin each line of their Robert Burns, Acrostic Poem.
The children enjoyed this very much and worked very hard on their poems.
Here are this weeks Star Writers With their Acrostic Poems. Great Work Boys and Girls.
Art – Snow and Pointillism
Above our Star Writers in the same picture, you will notice some more of our children’s fantastic artwork as they learned about ‘Pointillism’ with Mrs Stevenson . These beautiful snowmen were inspired by the real ones they made with Mrs Stevenson as they enjoyed the snow last Wednesday.
Health and Wellbeing – ‘SHANARRI Wheel Indicator’ – Active
P.E – Football Coaching
This is the 2nd Week of football coaching and some of the children are enjoying it more than they imagined they would. Here they are having fun learning and developing some of the techniques they require to control the ball as they progress in their ability and knowledge of the game.
Great Work P2. You have worked hard this month a wonderful start to 2018. Well done!
Netball and Football
Well done to our P6/7 netball team and our two P6/7 football teams who took part in the festival at Sir Matt Busby today. The children demonstrated great team work and we are proud of you all! A special mention has to go to the netball team who today again won every game!
P1/2 January
Primary 1/2 are excited to be back after Christmas! We are refreshed and ready to learn. We are really enjoying our new topic Journeys! We created beautiful hot air balloons and had great fun talking about where we would go if we had one in our class for real.
We also read about the Gruffalo and wrote stories about the Gruffalo and the mouse. Our star writers were Arnas, Sophia, Sadia, Sienna and Ouday…well done!
Congratulations also to our merit winners this month pictured below…
Lots of the boys and girls in P1/2 have also been working hard on their maths using Studyladder and Sumdog. They have achieved lots of study ladder certificates and are reallly enjoying the Sumdog after school club. 
Primary 5
Primary 5 are having a very busy time at the moment. In December we started our swimming block and this is going very well, with everyone enjoying themselves immensely . We have also had a visit to the science centre in Glasgow for the launch of our new topic, Clyde in the classroom. We have learned a lot so far and are very excited to welcome 200 new classmates in the form of brown trout eggs, who arrived yesterday. All these extra activities mean we are having to work extra hard to get all our other work done but it will be worth it when our eggs hatch.
Primary 3 had lots of fun playing in the snow with Primary 6/7 C. They worked together to build snowmen.
They have also been extremely busy developing strategies in maths and working on wider achievements.
