1805, 2016

Lucy’s design for the Queen’s cake wins national competition!

Huge congratulations to Lucy Kearney in P3 who has won the design a cake for the Queen’s 90th Birthday competition 🎂 Selected from 4,500 entries throughout Scotland, by a team of judges from The Royal Yacht Britannia and PoppyScotland, the feedback was that Lucy’s design stood out and would make a beautiful cake. The cake will be baked onboard Britannia in the original royal galleys by a team of Chefs.

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1705, 2016

Winners of the Monklands Bible Quiz

Congratulations to the Bible Quiz team and their coaches Mrs Paterson and Lorna Paterson in winning the Monklands Bible Quiz at Airdrie Ebenezer Evangelical Church. For the second year running the event finished a deat heat between Plains and St David’s Primaries. When the tie-breaker failed to split the teams, the trophy was awarded to both schools.

1605, 2016

Loch Tay Homework

Literacy: Spelling bees – Practise ‘u’ ‘gn’ and ‘y’ phonemes – gym, mystery, pyramid, pull, push, awful, cushion, sign, design, gnome. Super Spellers – ‘k’ phoneme – cabin, kangaroo, crack, school, calculator, keep, hammock, headache, kind, character. Maths = http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=matchingpairstimev3 cubes to practise o’clock and half past analogue and digital. cones to practise o’clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to analogue and digital. pyramids – practise 5 min intervals

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1105, 2016

A busy day!

Emily and Scott attended the NLC Pupil Conference today where they discussed “Healthy Food in Schools” and “Rights Respecting Schools”. Meanwhile, our new P1 pupils for August 2016 enjoyed a visit to class and tried a school lunch with their family. .

0905, 2016

Loch Tay Homework

Mrs Coleman would still like the children to carry out a bit of research on ‘Plains Gala Day’. She is  looking for children to be asking parents/grandparents/other family members about their knowledge and experiences of the Gala Day, past and present. We will be using this information to widen our knowledge and look at the changes from over the years. Photographs would be greatly received too! Children should record their

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0305, 2016

Loch Tay Homework

For homework this week Mrs Coleman would like the children to carry out a bit of research on ‘Plains Gala Day’. I am looking for children to be asking parents/grandparents/other family members about their knowledge and experiences of the Gala Day, past and present. We will be using this information to widen our knowledge and look at the changes from over the years. Photographs would be greatly received too! Children

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0305, 2016

Profiles

Your child should have brought their profile home today, along with the Curriculum Newsletter for their class. Please spend some time with your child looking at their targets, assessment sheets and work samples. It would be very helpful if, for homework, all pupils could spend some time updating their achievements. Parents should sign the profiles and return them to school by Friday. Many thanks.

2504, 2016

Loch Tay Maths Homework

Cubes http://www.snappymaths.com/counting/fractions/interactive/tenthsint/tenthsint.htm http://www.snappymaths.com/counting/fractions/interactive/halfbysharing2/halfbysharing.htm Cones http://www.snappymaths.com/counting/fractions/interactive/halfbysharing2/halfbysharing.htm http://www.snappymaths.com/counting/fractions/interactive/hqtsharing/hqtsharing.htm P4 https://uk.ixl.com/math/year-3/division-facts-for-2-5-10-true-or-false