Pupils have been working in teams this morning to complete a Fairtrade scavenger hunt.  They had to search indoors and outdoors for key information about the history of fairtrade.  Pupils had to find the information, read and dictate sentences to each other and record all information accurately.  They also had to work hard to stay together and encourage each other.  Children will use this information next week to present their learnI got back to the other groups.

Primary 5 pupils have been celebrating Fairtrade Fortnight by making fairtrade muffins.  They decided whether to use bananas or choc chips or both and worked well in groups to follow the recipe.

We started thinking about fairtrade today by watching a video and presentation about how we can support fairtrade.  Some Primary 5 pupils then performed a short role play to highlight the importance of choosing to buy these products.  We will be building on this work during Thinking Circles this week.

Congratulations to all our Primary 5 pupils who have successfully completed their ten week swimming block at the Time Capsule.  They were presented with their certificates during assembly today.

We spent time today in pairs reading some of our favourite books as part of our World Book Day celebrations.  We discussed what we enjoyed about our books and then designed a front cover together.

Thank you to all our visitors who came this morning to give us updates from our new partnership school in Malawi.  Mrs Donaldson came to show us some great pictures and Mrs Rusk and her knitting team showed us some of the fantastic items they have produced for our partnership school.  Well done to our enterprise pupils and Mrs Towers for giving a presentation all about actions we are taking to support our friends in Malawi.

Thank you to everyone who came along to support our fantastic pupils on Friday afternoon.   We were very proud to see all our children stand up and present their learning to parents and the wider community.  We certainly have a school full of confident individuals.  I would like to say a big thank you to all staff for getting involved in making our assembly a success.  Our ‘Friends of Kirko’ Shotts’ group did an outstanding job with the home baking, tea and coffee as usual.

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Well done to our four capacity award winners this week.

As the cut off date has now passed for opting out of this, children in Primary5,6 and 7 will be using laptops to complete this survey about their Health and wellbeing.  If you have opted out already, your children will not take part in this.  If you require any clarification on the survey, please contact Mr Murray at the school before Thursday.

Congratulations to one of our pupils who received a certificate from North Lanarkshire Council for her entry into the recent road safety competition.