A very big welcome to all of our new Primary one pupils, our new teachers and of course our returning pupils! We hope everyone enjoyed a fantastic summer holiday and are ready to go!

Primary 2 have been learning about local superheroes and the people who help us in our local community. So far we have learned about the Ambulance Service and the Fire Service. We have learned how these people help us and have investigated the uniforms they wear, the equipment they use, and their vehicles.

Today we had some special visitors… fire-fighters from Cumbernauld Fire Station! We were very lucky as we got to use some of their equipment and even got to sit inside the fire engine.

We are looking forward to learning about the Police Service next week.

 

Ravenswood enjoyed another visit from our new P1 children for next session. The turnout was fantastic and we are all loving having each happy new face working and playing in our school. As ever our great buddies were super. Miss Purdon and Mrs Simpson loved spending time with everyone who managed to come along. Miss Hawthorn snapped some photographs to tweet too. Remember to check out our work on our live twitter feed. (@RavenswoodPS)

Last term winners had a ball during their well deserved treat. Every Jupiter House member loved the inflatable slide and ball skills challenge. It was great to see the winners have so much fun, even the teachers joined in too. Super job!

Primary 2 have thoroughly enjoyed their week learning about the role of the bank and how to be super savers. We have been very busy making our own money boxes, creating a savings list, playing our money board games, designing our own bank notes and playing in our class bank. Phew…it really has been a busy week!

 

Day 1

We created a ‘money man’ to record our knowledge and feelings about money. Everyone contributed well to our super class discussion and was able to share something they knew about money. Playing our money board games proved to be so much fun as we had to keep our coins safe and ‘bank’ the money we made as we moved around the board.

Some of us made our own piggy money boxes to help us save our money, while others created a list of things we would like to buy with our pocket money. Our favourite activity was playing in the class bank. We had lots of fun depositing and withdrawing money, putting our money in cash bags, and opening bank accounts.

 

Day 2

We had a mission from our class superhero, Mr Fairness. Mr Fairness asked us to make new masks for some superheroes who had eaten too many Easter eggs! Through this activity Mr Fairness taught us about the role of Fairtrade and how important it is that farmers are given a fair price for their work. Primary 2 found this out the hard way as we had to make lots of masks (without taking breaks!) and were paid in counters for our work, which for some groups wasn’t always a fair price.

Day 3

Our trip to the bank finally arrived! We were so excited to visit the bank and find out more about how they keep our money safe. The lovely staff from RBS showed us the inside of a cash machine, and we were even allowed in the vault! We were amazed by bank and learned so much from our visit. At the bank we met Pigby, the RBS mascot. The infant department have now entered a competition to design a Pigby with the hope of winning an RBS piggy bank, wish us luck! Keep looking on the school blog for posts about our gorgeous Pigbys.

After visiting the bank we visited Tesco as Mr Fairness left us a shopping list. We needed to find Fairtrade and non-Fairtrade products and compare their prices. We found out that the Fairtrade products were more expensive as this helps farmers to get a fair price for their crops.

Day 4

By Thursday Primary 2 were money and Fairtrade experts. Using our expert knowledge we planned a ‘fair feast’ for Mr Fairness. We learned about budgeting, as we only had £5 to spend on delicious Fairtrade foods.

Mr Fairness asked us to design a Fairtrade carrier bag as he wanted to know who was buying Fairtade products so they could be rewarded. We came up with some excellent ideas and slogans for our carrier bags, we think Mr Fairness will find it difficult to choose just one!

Day 5

Our homework challenge this week was to design our own bank notes. Everyone put lots of effort into their designs, making sure that our notes had a value and a bank name written on them. It was very difficult to choose just one winner so we had two runner-up’s and two overall winners. Well done to everyone in Primary 2, your bank notes were amazing!

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Primary 4 and Primary 5 were fantastic as they performed a show with an extra special message for the school, parents, carers, family and friends. Both classes have been working extra hard and their efforts were well received by all. The staging, costumes, acting and singing were tremendous.

Here is a short clip showcasing the talents of our learners. Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate on this cold but beautifully sunny day. Happy Easter!

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Our buddies were so excited to welcome through the Ravenswood Primary doors our new P1’s for session 2015-16.  A morning of fun was planned by Miss Hawthorn, Miss Purdon and Mrs Simpson that included some new additions to Ravenswood….the little chicks.

After listening to all of the interesting information and after having a closer look at the little chicks, the buddies helped their new friends to decorate their very own chick. Some well deserved play was earned by all. It was such a fantastic day for going outside and playing on our pirate ship and with our playground squad games.

It was great to see so many boys and girls attend our transition day. We hope to see you all again soon for some more fun in the sun!

 

Pupils in Primary 6 enjoyed another visit to Ravenswood Marsh on Friday afternoon. Carrick joined us and helped the group to identify pond life at the marsh. We noticed that the tadpoles in our class tank have developed far quicker than those at the marsh. This is because our class tank has a stable light source and constant temperature. The marsh gets very cold, especially at night, so the difference was quite extreme. We used our collecting tubs and a white tray to collect some samples to investigate further under the microscope. Thank you Carrick for letting our class borrow an amazing microscope. It is fantastic being able to get such a super view of our collections.

In P2 we have been learning about symmetry. We can identify horizontal and vertical symmetry all around us. We went outside and spotted symmetrical objects in the environment. Then we were very creative and made our own symmetrical pictures and patterns using Numicon. If you ever need help understanding symmetry, P2 is the place to seek some advice.