We are raising money for St. Andrews Hospice by taking part in Teddy Bears Travels. Each day this week our Teddy Bears will come to school and go on an adventure with us. Keep an eye on the blog for what we do each day!
The Importance of Hand Washing!
The boys and girls in primary four have been discussing, and demonstrating, the importance of hand washing so we don’t spread germs and get sick.
To show how germs can spread, the children all touched a piece of bread without washing their hands. We then displayed this piece of bread against a clean piece.
Look at our results after one week of carrying out the experiment. We make sure we’re super hand washers now ;).
P1 & P6 Learning Tasks
Our Primary 1 and Primary 6 children were working together, using the outdoor environment. Primary 1 were showcasing their knowledge of compound words. Primary 6 were demostrating their management and collaborative working skills. Both worked incredibly hard and it was a very successful lesson. Well done to all.
@NewMonklandPS
Big Cats in P4
Primary Four are learning about Big Cats in their new interdisciplinary context, and thoroughly enjoying it.
Today, the boys and girls drew tigers freehand and then used their collage skills to create the tiger’s natural habitat around the edge. Don’t they look fabulous?
Fact(s) of the day: Did you know the Tiger lives in South – Asia?
Did you know the tiger is the heaviest, strongest and most powerful of the Big Cats?
Primary 1 and 2…Walking and Exploring
Primary 1 and 2 have been out everyday as part of our Active School initiative…Walk to Rio! We also now have Beat the Street to take part in as well. If you see us out and about the village give us a wave. We are enjoying exploring our local environment.
Gardening Club
Today was our first day at Gardening Club! The boys and girls spoke about what they would like to learn over the next few weeks. We then went outside and took some weeds out of our outdoor area outside the playroom. We found some worms and we were so excited! We can’t wait until next week 🙂
Beat the Street
Moving up the rankings- currently 18th!
Beat the Street – Update
We are currently sitting in 27th position – we can do this!!
Beat the Street to support New Monkland Primary School and Nursery Class
Click here- Support our School- Beat the Street
Beat the Street is a real life walking, cycling and running game for a whole community. Beat the Street is being delivered on behalf of the National Charity Partnership – a collaboration between Diabetes UK, the British Heart Foundation (BHF) and Tesco. The competition will run in North Lanarkshire from 20 April – 01 June 2016. People score points and win prizes by walking, cycling or running from point to point and tapping a registered and activated Beat the Street RFID (Radio Frequency ID) card or Fob on sensors (Beat Boxes) which are placed on lamp posts across the dedicated routes where the game is being played. A player taps their Beat the Street card or fob at various points on their way to and from work, school and to the shops. Registered players can win regular spot prizes for a ‘lucky tap’ on a Beat Box. To be eligible to win a prize, players must be registered. The more Beat Boxes you tap, the further you travel and the greater your chance of winning a prize. Players can also join teams by choosing from the list on the registration page. There are lots of prizes up for grabs for individuals and teams taking part in Beat the Street.Weekly lucky tap prizes include £25 Decathlon vouchers.
Leaderboards- We have 2 leaderboards: Total Points & Average Points.
For each of these leaderboards there will be 3 cascading prizes as follows:
• 1st place £1000 of Decathlon vouchers
• 2nd place £500 of Decathlon vouchers
• 3rd place £250 of Decathlon vouchers
Earth Day 2016
As an Eco school we do as much as we can to promote a sustainable environment. Today we celebrated Earth day in our classrooms. We researched the history of Earth day and some classes took part in art activities.
