Primary 5

Primary 5 Reflective Friday October Post

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Welcome to our Reflective Friday post for the month of October. We have been learning lots and having a great time in the lead up to our Halloween celebrations.

Literacy

We have been looking at the area of report writing with a focus on newspaper reports this month. We looked at the importance of headlines as well as the use of paragraphs in order to present facts clearly and in a way that would capture the readers’ attention. We have continued our ongoing work on accurate spelling, grammar and presentation as well as working hard to improve our reading fluency. Our novel is Tilly and the Badgers which has made us think a lot about animal cruelty and the theme of badger baiting in particular.

Numeracy

We have been reinforcing our understanding of place value and using this effectively in our estimation and rounding work. In our ICT time we have also worked with top marks to increase our mental agility and enable us to explain our thinking in number talks. We are completing speed sums tasks on a regular basis for this purpose also.

ICT

In ICT we are learning how to join a teams meeting on Microsoft teams. This is really useful in case we need to self isolate but also it is a skill we will need in the world of work. We are making sure that everyone can send emails properly and Miss Glavin is setting our homework on the school website under the P5 class tab. That is where you will find your work if you are isolating too.

RE

In RE we have been learning about St Mungo and discovering many interesting facts. October was also the month of Our Lady and we remembered her when we prayed the Rosary.

IDL

Our topic is scottish inventors and we have enjoyed learning about Alexander Fleming and  Alexander Graham Bell so far. In art we have been doing Steven Brown highland McCoo pictures and they are fantastic. It is great to learn about the work of a scottish artist.

HWB

We have been enjoying outdoor PE  with a focus on stamina and agility. This has involved regular running sessions  and using an obstacle course approach to increase our fitness.

 

Certificate awards! Well done Primary 5 children!😊

Primary 4/5

P4/5 Reflective Friday post for October

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Since our reflective day was a Thursday this month, we decided to do things a bit differently. We can use the ICT room on a Thursday, so some of the boys and girls wrote about what they’ve learned over this past month and sent it to the whole class on Teams. Here is what they came up with: (Well done and thank you to all who contributed)

Kamile

this October month i have been learning alot my favrite book this month is the twelth floor kids and poppet this month we done art we done pumkins and sugur skulls we i like doing maths because i like doing sumdog and daily TEN and i have been learning the 4 times table bye

 

Ouday

language reading storys incredebile insects tlweefth floor kids write story i made a story about Karate Kid And Mrs Dasily was pleased with It ICT I made my own sprite charcter in scratchand doing my 4x table on sum dog and sending emails on glow

 

Muneebah

i have been learning my 4 time table i rilly like daily 10 and bingo some times we play bingo after daily 10 and we play scrach it is very very fun we made some suger skulls we do alout of art some times we do maths

 

Leo

hello to everyone this is my october list we learned about our 4x tables and to make sugar skuls and our what is an insect art we learned about poppet and scratch we play sumdog in the I.C.T room we do our sumdog tasks and we log into glow we go into onedrive and mail on mail we can message our friends and our teachers and people in diffrent classes and we learned about alexander graim bell and thomas watt the end

 

Joshua

hi to all of you my list of things in I.C.T sumdog is  not  new to us but scratch is new to us and i lik my 4x tables

 

Sophie Jane

hi guys i really like learning the 4x table because i did not know it before and i know it know im really happy and i love daily 10 i practise the sums now languege i like languege because it helps me how to read we done incredible insects i like it because i learn about animals what i did not know about art i really like art because we done sugar skills and ict because

sumdog because it is really fun i get to do games while doing maths

 

Blaire

hi to all of you my list of things in I.C.T sumdog is not new to us but i was doing my 4x on it with a fun game i like and a new thing scratch i like scratch because it is a platform with a thing its name sprit you can make it say things if you wanted and glow it is an amazing platform you can send a emal on it good bye.

 

Sadia

in this year i have been learning making sugar sculs and pumkins and i have been learng to do scrach you can make your own character you drees them up it is very fun i have been doing sumdog doing my four times table i love it we have been doing bingo and daily tens we have been doing colour spanish and pee in pe we have been playing food and drink and running that is all from my october month bye everyone

 

Benjamin

I DO THE 4 TIMES TABELS OON SUMDOG PROGRAM SPRITES ON SCRATCH

 

Rahim

hello evrye oun we made shoger sculls we made posters for climet change i like to do maths and somdog daly TEN and scratch sprits

 

Arnas

i like sumdog beocause you learn a bit of matths

 

Mikey

I like sumdog and glow

 

Gracie

I like doing sumdog reply if you do to

 

We also had a lovely day on Friday celebrating Hallowe’en. Here is a video of our parade:

 

Primary 1

P1 Reflective Friday, September 2020

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Hello and welcome to our Primary 1 update for this month. Since starting school in August we have worked very hard to learn all of the new routines in the school and classroom. We can unpack and pack our bags and organise our own belongings. Every day we can order our own lunches and are enjoying eating with our friends. We are working hard to learn to zip up and button our own jackets. We have made lots of new friends and are enjoying playing together during our outdoor play.

We have been talking about our feelings and emotions with our teachers and friends. Our Mood Monster wall helps us to name our feelings and we can talk about how to name our emotions. When we feel sad or worried we can feed our worries to ‘Fuzzy Wuzzy’ the Worry Monster and he eats them all up for us! What a great little monster!

In the classroom we have been very busy learning to write our own names and to learn lots of new letters. We now know a, t, s, i, p, n, r, m, d, e. We have been so busy! We can use our magic reading fingers to read sentences and are beginning to build our own sentences. We know that Mr Capital letter should come at the beginning of our sentence, with his friend Mr Full Stop at the end.

We have been learning all about our numbers to 10 and can read, write and order our numbers. When we are counting we like to play games to learn more about before/after and in between numbers. Every day we count aloud with our class and try to beat the teacher! We have a number of the day and this helps us to focus on a different number every day. We like to count when we line up and count forwards and backwards to 20. Every day we practise how to write our numbers and make sure they are facing the correct way.

 

 

Primary 6

Primary 6 Reflective Friday

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Welcome to Primary 6 and our first Reflective Friday post. We are all excited and happy to be back at school even thou it is different to what we remember. Since we have come back we had to learn about our new rules and routines, it was hard trying to remember our one way systems, our Zones and bubbles but after a few days we got there. First Friday Mass has been different for us as we are unable to go, however due to technology we have been lucky to watch it live in our classroom which makes us still feel included.

We have been talking about our emotions and feels a lot since we have come back to school and emotion works have helped us understand these emotions. During class we have been working on our class novel The Queens Nose which we all enjoyed. Our new novel is called Tribe by Catherine MacPhail which we started this week in class. We are already gripped by the new novel and enjoying the main themes it already covers. In Maths we have already covered Place Value, Rounding and estimating and currently on Addition/ Subtraction. Our mental agility is improving everyday as we work through our Number Talks. Our new Topic is Scottish Inventors and Inventions which we are really enjoying, especially how Scotland has helped create and shape the world we living today and how the inventions was created so long ago but we still use them today. We did have suggestions about creating our own from new games, flying boards to even finding a vaccine for Covid- 19. Primary 6 also started Science last week which takes a deeper look into our Solar System, which have been researching facts and information about each planet including our own planet Earth. We have still managed to do Art in class and looking at various artists including Vincent Van Gogh. We are looking at how he used his emotions through colours to create his paintings, which even inspired us to use happy colours to create our own replica painting of Sunflowers.

Primary 6 still all had the chance to write application forms for Vice captains for each house, everyone took part in this and a few where selected by Mrs Willison. On Thursday the 10th Sep P4-7 got a chance to watch our campaign videos and vote for their vice-captain.

After the September weekend we have a lot more planned with ICT, PE, Spanish and Heath and Wellbeing. Miss Verrecchia is going to try and included as much as possible in our timetable to make sure we are slowly getting back to the new normal. We are all still excited for this year and to make Primary 6 the best year yet.

Thank you from all of Primary 6.

Whole School

Update on return to school in Holy Family Primary

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Following the update from North  Lanarkshire Council regarding schools return for the new session I have revised our planned return model to incorporate Scottish government and local authority advice. As always this is subject to change should government advice alter. I am meeting with the parent council tomorrow night  and I wanted to share my planning with you all prior to that to allow for any subsequent questions.

I have tried to make as few changes as possible to the recovery planning outlined in June and have also included again the playground and building diagrams you saw then to refresh everyone’s memory.

I know many of you will be feeling nervous about this move to full time schooling and I want to reassure you that we are well prepared to meet the challenges that lie ahead. Our risk assessment for full return is also incuded in this post.

We are all looking forward to welcoming the children back next week and working with you and the local community again albeit at a social distance. Until then please contact me at my email address if you have any issues you would like to discuss.

ht@holyfamily.n-lanark.sch.uk

Return to school parental information updated HF Covid 4.8.20

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Mrs Wilson Update Week Beginning 22.6.20

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Welcome to my final weekly update of session  2019/2020. I want to take this opportunity to thank all our families for the support they have given the school by working in partnership with us over these last few difficult months. Your feed back in our questionnaire in particular has been vital in planning effectively for the children in a way that also meets your needs as working adults. I know how challenging remote learning is and the strain of juggling home schooling with the demands of your own workload can only add to that so thank you for your commitment and support.

Moving forward in the new session as you know your child will have a minimum of 2 days face to face class teaching but hopefully this will only be a temporary measure if the covid 19 threat continues to reduce.

We have managed to accommodate sibling groups and linked in with the nursery too to create a similar pattern of days. The groupings were also planned to take into account working groups and allow for high quality, ability focused teaching while meeting the class size restrictions based on the 2 metre rule. As a result the days your child has been allocated are not open to change. While I appreciate this may be challenging the capacity of the classrooms does not allow us to accommodate more than 50% so I would physically not have space to change the allocated days.

READING CHALLENGE

I have been contacted by NLC with details of the summer reading challenge in a new format.

This year, the national Summer Reading Challenge is online!  Silly Squad was launched last Friday, with a host of authors and celebrities helping to promote this to families all over the UK.

Alongside this, Culture NL Libraries are hosting a ‘Silly Staycation’ with our local celebrity, panto favourite Sheepie fronting our summer campaign; check it out here!

https://www.facebook.com/477014162333709/posts/3237642849604146/?sfnsn=scwspmo&extid=RNdHpf6xdI5xkN6Y&d=n&vh=e

Follow the links to get the kids signed up for a Silly Staycation!

CASH PAYMENTS

From August, cash can no longer be accepted in schools and parents/carers will be asked to use cards via the online payment system to pay for things like school lunches etc.  Children will not be able to bring cash into school to top up their lunch cards.  North Lanarkshire Council will be in touch nearer the time to notify parents of this and will advise them to use the online payment system.

SUMMER HUB PROVISION

An enormous thank you to our Holy Family Primary and Nursery Volunteers who have worked so hard in our hubs to support our vulnerable children and the children of key workers, as always you are stars.

Please note

Current hub provision will end on Wednesday 24th June 2020 at 8pm and will move to a new community based hub model.

The following 9 venues have been identified as summer community hubs:

  • Garrell Vale Community Centre in Kilsyth
  • Broadwood Leisure Cumbernauld
  • Iain Nicolson Centre, Chryston
  • Airdrie Leisure Centre
  • Coatbridge Community Centre
  • Sir Matt Busby Leisure Centre
  • Ravenscraig Regional Sports Centre
  • Wishaw Sports Centre
  • Shotts Leisure Centre

Staff from Community Learning and Development, Culture Leisure NL and Active Schools will collaborate to lead and manage these hubs. Hubs will operate Monday to Friday from 9am until 5pm.

Any key workers looking to access a placement should do so using the following link: www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/keyworkers

I will be in school over the holidays and will also be available by email so please get in touch with any concerns or questions you may have.

If there is any change to school plans due to updated government guidelines I will inform you straight away by text.

Boys and Girls – Have a lovely summer holiday and put those school books down for now.

Stay safe, be kind and take care of yourselves and those around you. I cannot tell you how much I am looking forward to seeing you all back in school in August, I have missed you so much.

God Bless

Mrs Wilson x

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Mrs Wilson Weekly Update Week Beginning 15.6.20

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This is the ninth of our weekly posts that I am creating to keep you all as up to date as possible with all the proposed arrangements for returning to school in August. This will be a busy week again as our new Primary 1 are coming into the building in very small groups throughout the day  for a short transition visit on Monday. On Tuesday we have a visit to our nursery from the support officer for Early Years to review our plans for reopening in August. On Thursday and Friday you have all been given a slot to return your school books and collect your school reports from the front yard.This is really important as we will need these to create learning packs for next year’s children. I know they might look a bit tired by now but that’s great as it shows you have been using them so don’t worry. Any old reading books etc. from previous years will also be gratefully received and no questions will be asked as to where they have been hiding ! We are also having our fire risk assessment updated on Thursday as well as preparing the classrooms and moving furniture so lots to keep us busy.

I have created an information guide which should contain answers to the many questions I know you all have. I have tried to explain the logic behind our planning which is led by current government and local authority health advice. I have attached the draft plans of our school building and grounds as I feel it is easier to look at  and understand visually than for me to describe only in words.

These site plans are what I have submitted for approval to North Lanarkshire Council and what they will use as their guide for painting and signage of our building and grounds during the holidays. In my role as site manager I will be in school at this time with Mr Crielly to assist with this process.

Please click on the link below to view the information document and associated site plans.

Return to school parental information HF Covid 13.6.20

Return to school estate plan – written

Please note the diagram below will form the basis for the signage to be painted in the school yard  during the summer holidays.

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