This week in Bikeability the pupils of P6 and P7 were learning to cycle slowly with control around an obstacle course in the playground.  They had to slalom and change direction and had to cover their brakes as well as focus on their balance.

We have a T.V. star in our school.  One of our pupils in Primary 4 took part in the Guard of Honour and the half-time at the recent Glasgow Warriors v Ospreys rugby game on BBC Alba.

Have a look at the game on BBC iPlayer using the link below!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06nrl0r/live-rugby-20152016-pro-12-glasgow-v-ospreys

On Friday we had our third House Assembly of the year.

It was the time of Room 9 to show off all of their hard work and learning from the class.  They presented all of their learning on keeping our playground and the environment tidy by always picking up and placing litter in bins.  They also sang a song for the school called “Every bit of litter hurts”.  It was really impressive!

Next it was time to find out who had won the House Points this time round. To start off we found out who had the most class points:

Dundyvan:  120   Rosehall: 82    Summerlee: 114      Waverly:  61

Mr Clark then handed out all of the Fantastic Awards to the pupils who have worked really hard in the past 2 weeks. Each certificate earned 20 House Points! Dundyvan (260), Rosehall (100), Summerlee (80) and Waverly (60).

Then he told everyone which house had won the bonus 100 points for good behaviour (Rosehall and Waverly).

Finally Mr Clark announced the totals for all 4 Houses. The total points were as follows:

1st place: Dundyvan (380 points)

2nd place: Rosehall (282 points)

3rd place: Waverly (221 points)

4th place: Summerlee (194 points)

Well done House and the running score now sits as follows:

Dundyvan – 6

Rosehall – 9

Summerlee – 7

Waverly – 8

Yesterday we had the trials for the upcoming Coatbridge Cluster Cross Country Competition.

Mr Gall and the P7s helped to set up a course around the school and asked anyone from P5-7 to come along in the afternoon to tkae part in the school heats.  The first 5 in each race will then be entered into the Coatbridger Cluster Competition.

After all of the races – and lots of sweat – the following pupils placed in the top 5 and will go on to represent the school.

P5 Girls

Shannon Sanderson

Emma Wilson

Brooke Johnson

Jennifer Black

Chloe McCarron

P5 Boys

Adam Irvine

Jack Sanderson

Leo McGowan

Christopher Wilson

Adam West

P6 Girls

Brooke Armstrong

Sophie Hamilton

Kerri Dickson

Gabrielle Caddle

Ameera Ahmed

P6 Boys

John Paul Flannigan

Aidan Murphy

Jack Bustard

Iain Dunn

Linkin Roe

P7 Girls

Bailey Murtagh

Ellie Little

Demi Morrison

Morgan Maxwell

Kara Denny

P7 Boys

Graeme Mitchell

Ben Hopkins

Aaron Brown

Kyle Ireland

Kori Hill

 

Good luck to everyone when the competition comes round and well done to all who took part in the school trials!

Today our Primary 7 football team took part in their first fixture of the Coatbridge Football Friendly League.  Our team of 10 players went along to St Andrew’s High School to play against St Mary’s Primary School.

Mr Gall sent minute by minute updates back to Mr Sharp, who was sitting nervously back in school.

We went down 2-0 after only a couple of minutes but, thanks to a quick reply from Graeme Mitchell, we scored to get back in the game.

Then disaster struck: 3-1 to St Mary’s and it looked like we were going to have a tough afternoon.   The half-time whistle blew and Mr Gall had a chat with the team about our formation and told us to keep going!

Unfortunately just after half-time St Mary’s scored again to make it 4-1 then then hit the crossbar from a shot.  Phew!

So you would think that we all gave up and just accepted defeat…no chance!

Graeme showed some skills once again to score and make it 4-2!  Then Kyle came off the bench to make an instant impact.  Graeme passed to Kyle and when the keeper came out to close him down he simply passed the ball into the net. 4-3!

Time was quickly running out for us and back at school Mr Sharp and the rest of the staff were thinking game over…once again we didn’t give up.

Kyle found himself just outside the box with only a couple of minutes to go and decided to have a shot.  The ball flew off his boot, time stood still.  Was it going in?  Would Kirkshaws complete a miraculous comeback?  Or did Kyle fluff his chance to be a hero?

Of course he scored – Kyle (the Kirkshaws saviour) – rescued a precious point in our first game of the Friendship League and we now look forward to playing our next match in November against St Bartholomew’s!

 

FINAL SCORE:      St Mary’s 4 – Kirkshaws 4 (Mitchell 2, Taylor 2)

MOM: Kyle Taylor

Yesterday our P6s and a few of our P7s took part in their first Bikeability 1 session with David the instructor.  It took us all a little while to get our bikes sorted and checked and learn the  “Bike M check” so that all of our bikes are safe to ride from now on.  We also had to learn how to fit our bike helmets properly.  David has asked us all to bring our bikes back tomorrow (Thurs 22nd Oct) so that a bike maintainence team can check over and fix any problems.

Room 16 have been using Scratch animation during their Technology lessons to create their own short computer animated software.  Have a look at some of their creations by using the link below.

https://scratch.mit.edu/mystuff/

Use the login details

Username: kirkshaws

Password: kirkshaws1

Room 14 have been working hard to prepare presentations on different types of renewable energy.

All 5 groups worked hard and did a great job presenting the information back to the class.

Have a look at the pictures and files of the presentations below…