Dear Mrs Hagerty,
How unfair is it that the pupils of this school are clearly despondent about the lack of playground equipment that we have been provided with? Therefore,I am writing to you to contribute towards this issue.
I would like to see a wide variety of equipment added to the playground .For example bench’s,climbing, frames,football goals,basketball hoops etc.My personal opinion is that the equipment that I have just mentioned would occupy a wide variety of pupil because there is something for everyone.
Many fights have occured in the past because there is nothing to occupy pupils.This is one of the benefits that buying more equipment would have on our school.As a result,buying more equipment would surely improve our social skills .It goes without saying that it will also benefit our fitness and health while having fun at the same time.
Finally I hope that you take this letter into consideration and take an act on this issue urgently.
Yours Sincerely
Joseph McPake

Today is World Book Day and lots of children in the school have dressed up as characters from their favourite books! Here are some pictures from the children in Rooms 13 and 14 and a very special Dwarf family!

Today room 13 went to Tesco. We went to help St Patrick’s win the Tesco grant. If we win this grant we can spend it on playground equipment. We have no playground equipment so in my opinion this will stop the fights out in the playground. We want to get all the support we can to make our playground more enjoyable to play at playtimes.

Primary 6/7 have been learning about hair and eye colour in Spanish.

We have been creating mountain landscapes as part of our topic “The Giant of Thistle Mountain”.

Tesco has teamed up with greenspace scotland to launch its Bags of Help initiative across Scotland. The scheme will see three community groups and projects awarded grants of £12,000, £10,000 and £8,000 – all raised from the 5p bag charge.

St Patrick’s Primary School has been selected to receive a reward and it’s now up to the shoppers at Tesco to vote for the winners! We would like to improve our playground by adding play equipment for our children. Please vote for us to get the £12,000 grant!

Bags of Help offers community groups and projects in each of Tesco’s regions across the UK a share of revenue generated from the five pence charge levied on single-use carrier bags.

The public will now vote in store from 27 February until 6 March on who should receive the £12,000, £10,000 and £8,000 awards.

www.tesco.com/bagsofhelp

Today the children in primaries six and seven had a visit from Lynsey from St Andrew’s Hospice. She told us all about the Ambassador programme and how we could sign up to become ambassadors for the hospice. We are looking forward to carrying out lots of fundraising activities.

Room 13 won a competition to write a prayer to St Patrick. The prize was £50 to spend in any way they liked. The children all decided they would like to have a party with a delivery from Domino’s Pizza!

Everyone had lots of fun dancing and eating far too much pizza! Here are some pictures from our party.