We have been planning a new house system for our school and are ready now to elect our first House Captains.  Primary 6 and 7 pupils completed some research into our local area to find names for our houses.  We decided on Arden, named after Ardenrigg coal mine in Salsburgh, Muir, which was the name of one of the first houses built in Salsburgh and Lang after Langside farm.  We think these houses reflect key  aspects of our community.

Our Primary 7 pupils have already started writing their speeches for house captain elections and elections will take place when we come back after the October break.

We are all excited to launch our First Minister ‘s Reading Challenge.  We have our booklets now so are looking forward to reading as many books as possible.  I wonder which books we will start with?

Good luck everyone and keep us up to date with what you are reading.

Thank you to everyone who came to school this afternoon to visit classes to see how our pupils learn.  The pupils love sharing their learning and it has been beneficial for parents/ carers to see the methods used so they are able to support effectively at home.

We have a football coach coming into school tomorrow to do a taster session with every class.  Please make sure children have their PE kit.

Thanks

We would like to say a huge thank you to our Friends of Kirk o’ Shotts group and parents for providing a coffee morning to raise funds and awareness of MacMillan Cancer Group. We had a fantastic turn out from our community and raised a staggering £500 which we will be sending to this amazing charity. Thanks again to everyone who supported this event, it was a fantastic achievement.

 Congratulations to all our pupils and staff for their fantastic achievement in gaining a fifth Eco Green Flag.  It is an incredible amount of work to receive one of these awards and we are very proud of everyone at Kirk o’ Shotts Primary.

Pupils were revising our school vision today during ‘Thinking Circles’ and discussed ways in which  we can achieve our vision.

Our vision is,

‘To work together to be all we can be’

I wonder who the first winners of our new capacities awards will be?

Which skills and qualities have you shown this week?

We’ll find out on Monday, good luck.

Well done to all our pupils who started working in their Pupil Learning Communities this afternoon.  We have groups for Rights Respecting Schools, Eco, Enterprise, School Newspaper, Pupil Council and ICT.  Thank you to all the teachers for getting these groups up and running.

Hi everyone ,the staff at Kirk o’ Shotts have been hard at work over the last few days preparing for the return of our wonderful pupils.  Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow.