Plains Primary Football Team were delighted to win the quiz at the recent Football Festival.  The prize was a tour round Hampden Park and entrance to the museum.

Children from primaries 5,6 and 7 are looking forward to going tomorrow (Friday) and enjoying this treat.  Photos will be posted in the next few days!

On Tuesday 17 February 2015 some of our school took part in a race at Coatbridge Outdoor Centre these are all the people took part. Kaitlyn, Caitlin, Lewis, Connor, Zac, David, Lewis, Leon, Emily, Megan, Jimmy, Tony and Ben  are all the people that took part in the race. It is a big event that schools and children take part in. In each race there is over 100 people. There were only 2 people that got through to the finals and they were Kaitlyn and Lewis.  Well done to them!

P6/7 are going to be participating in the fare legacy games on 13/03/15 they are also participating in training for these games.

The training they are receiving contains

60m sprint

200m sprint

200m baton relay

javelin

shot-put

speed bounce

standing long jump

They will be picked up by a bus and taken to the emirates arena in Glasgow.

On the 19th of February the P3s of Plains Primary School competed in a football tournament and had fun! They played really well and they won five games! They all got at least four games each and nearly everyone scored. They would all go to it again if they got the chance.

Our school had a Valentines Disco on Thursday the 12th of February. Our page boy was Matthew and our maids of honour were Abbie and Catherine. The queen and other page boy was from St Davids. The other page boy was Shaye and our gala queen was Courtney. The gala day is a parade and after the parade in the big football park there are shows and people do dancing and the queens crown gets placed . The gala day royal are going dress shopping to pick their dresses and the boys will also go with the girls to get their kilts. We are going sometime in March.  This year the  gala day is on Saturday the 13th of June.

In I.C.T. we are learning how to be safe on the internet  I already knew how to be safe but its nice to have some friendly reminders.

We were also learning about internet safety. I am really enjoying it its so much fun. I can be safe on the internet.  I have learned to never talk to strangers and never give out personal information.

PALS stands for Plains Active Learning Stations and we do this on a Monday afternoon  from 2:00pm – 3:00pm.  Here are the names of groups and teachers responsible for our new PALS groups.

Good News  –  Mrs Paterson and Mrs Paul

Drama –  Mrs Matthews

International – Miss Gray

Primary 1- 4  French – Mrs Forbes

Guitar Lessons – Graeme Paterson               Only continues for 6 weeks

Arts and Crafts – Miss Henderson

Chess – Mrs Mcluckie

Health and Wellbeing – Miss Gibb

Graeme Paterson takes a guitar club on every Monday . At the guitar club we have learned the g chord, d chord and c chord.  The guitar club is on between 2 o clock and 3 o clock in the afternoon. The guitar club will only be on for another 2 weeks.  On the last week we will perform with our guitars  in front of the full school In the   assembly.

This year our school team has reached the final stages in the annual netball tournaments. The finals will take place on Friday the 27th of February at 10am. Mrs Wilson has been taking the team for practices but the children who will attend on the day are still to be selected. Everyone is very excited to be going to the finals and are all looking forward to the day.

This term the bible quiz team are busy studying their passages for the finals. The finals will be held on Tuesday 31st of March at 7pm. The team members are Reiss, Catherine, Rebekah & Abbi. The passages are Luke 22-24 & Acts 1-3. We hope to win!