christmas | Holy Family Primary and Nursery Class

The Eco Team met on Friday and came up with TWO fantastic ideas to help reduce waste:

Christmas Jumper Swap

Textile (Clothing) waste is a BIG problem. Items like children’s Christmas jumpers are rarely worn for more than one season because children grow out of clothes so quickly. Some statistics on textile (clothing) waste:

Each person in Britain throws away about 3.1kg of textiles every year, and that 1.7kg of fashion waste is landfilled yearly per person.
The United Kingdom is second in terms of annual spending on new clothing, with an average of £980.50 per person.

So, here at Holy Family, we want to address this by hosting a Christmas Jumper Swap where you can donate Christmas jumpers that are too small and take away, for free, a Christmas jumper that will fit you!

FAQs

You don’t need to donate to get a free jumper.
If you have lots of jumpers that are too small, we’ll happily take all of them off your hands.
Please give generously!
Can you make sure they’re washed and dried before donating please? Thanks 🙂

Book Swap Reintroduction

There is a display area just inside the main door to the back playground which used to be used for a Book Swap. Covid restrictions meant we had to stop that but now we are delighted to announce we can reintroduce it! If you would like to take a book from this display, help yourself for free! If you would like to donate any books, bring them in and display them here for others to take. Please give generously!

Mrs Cooney will fill the Book Swap area with Christmas/winter-themed books to kick off the Book Swap in seasonal style!

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!!

Christmas Jumper Swap! Book Swap Reintroduction

P4/5’s Reflective Thursday: December