Rochsolloch Primary School and Nursery ClassSlides from the Curriculum Evening can now be downloaded from the File Store.
P1 parents and carers, you may also be interested in last year’s P1 presentation from August 2015, which gives advice on how to support your child with Literacy and English.
Did you enjoy our Curriculum Evening last week?
If you’d like to learn more about North Lanarkshire’s Literacy approach, follow the link below:
http://www.ea.n-lanark.sch.uk/litbase/
Don’t forget to keep checking the website for our Curriculum Evening slides, which will be uploaded soon!
Meet Sid and Shanarri!
Sid and Shanarri are puppets who regularly visit our Nursery Class. Each group’s keyworker reads a story to their group, aided by Sid and Shanarri, which helps support our monthly SHANARRI focus.
Have a look at the pictures to see our boys and girls having fun learning alongside their new friends!
Today at our School Assembly, the pupils were introduced to our new SHANARRI focus of ‘Healthy,’ which we will be looking at in detail over the coming month.
Our pupils were treated to a ‘Handball Taster Session’ NL Leisure representatives Kevin and Russell. The children were taught about the sport of handball before some lucky pupils were given the chance to have a go!
There was an excited buzz in the gymhall as the teams competed to see who could complete the most passes. Even watching was exhausting!
Last night we held our Curriculum Evening for the 2016/17 session. In response to demand, the theme of the evening was Literacy and English.
Staff and pupils presented examples of resources and activities and were on hand to answer questions from our parents.
PowerPoint presentations used by Mrs Hill, Mrs Paterson and Miss Duncan/Mr Innes will be available to download from the website in the coming days.
We would like to thank our parents and carers very much for attending and our staff for working so hard to prepare for the evening. We would also like to thank our parents and carers for providing us with feedback from the event in order to help us improve!
Special thanks of course to our pupil volunteers, who did us all proud as always, and were the real stars of the show!
Don’t forget we are having a Curriculum Event this evening from 6.00pm-7.00pm, which is focusing on Literacy and English across the school.
We’d love to see you there!
At today’s Assembly, Millie and Kyle, our School Captain and Vice-Captain, held a press conference with our very own campus superhero, Mr Leckie!
Continuing with our theme of ‘Safe’, Mr Leckie was able to tell us all about how he helps to keep our school safe for us. Each class had prepared a question for Mr Leckie. Some of the questions included:
Mr Leckie explained to us how much he enjoys his job. Even though he has to work very hard, for long hours, he told us that the smiling faces of the pupils he gets to see every day makes it all worthwhile!
We think you’re a Safety Superstar Mr Leckie, thank you for coming to visit our Assembly!
In response to the recently published Education Act Scotland 2016, North Lanarkshire Council are keen to emphasise the need for schools and parents to work together effectively to enhance pupil progress and school improvement.
North Lanarkshire Council have requested that parents complete a survey based on Parental Engagement to help them inform improvements.
We would be extremely grateful if you would complete the survey by following the link:
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/NLparentssep2016
As part of a learning journey set in Africa, P2/3 have been learning about Fairtrade produce through their ‘Handa’s Surprise’ topic. As you can see from the gallery, the pupils have been making fruit kebabs with chocolate, after learning how and where cocoa is grown.
The class also wrote to Cadbury’s to ask them about their chocolate making process.
At Rochsolloch Primary School, we pride ourselves on using Outdoor Learning Experiences to encourage our pupils to develop a sense of connectedness with nature and to our local environment.
Our Nursery and P1 pupils were visited by ‘Zoo Lab’ as part of our Minibeasts transition topic, where they were able to learn about and handle a variety of creepy crawlies, including giant snails and snakes!
Our P1 classes also visited Brownsburn Local Nature Reserve, where they were taken on a guided nature walk by Jackie, our local Countryside Ranger.
Take a look at our zoo lab gallery!
Zoo Lab:
In keeping with the theme of SAFE, Primary 1 pupils were visited by Ross, everyone’s favourite Crossing Guard! Ross explained his job to the pupils and then happily answered all of their questions!
Ross carries our such an important job in our school community and prides himself on keeping us safe as we journey to and from school.
Thanks Ross…we all think you’re awesome!
Our newly-appointed Junior Road Safety Officers attended a conference recently with Mrs Booth, where they learned about the important of their new roles. The children were also given hints and tips on speaking in front of large groups of people, something that will come in very handy this year as they present to the pupils of our school.
These pupils will be helping to keep road safety in the minds of all of our pupils as we continue to work on keeping safe in our community.
If you’d like to learn more about the work of the Junior Road Safety Officers, you can visit http://www.jrso.com/ .
Each month, we focus on one of the ‘SHANARRI Indicators.’ This month, we have focused on ‘SAFE’ and our pupils have been learning a lot in class and at Assembly about keeping safe.
During some Pupil Consultation, our children asked for a visit from our local fire service. Mrs McCulloch organised this for our pupils and last week three terrific firefighters, Tony, Liz and Willie, came to speak to the whole school at Assembly, where they explained the finer details of their jobs, and also answered questions our classes had prepared for them.
The fire engine was parked in our school playground so that all of our pupils could have a closer look, with a few lucky classes getting a full tour!
We were delighted to welcome these special visitors to our school and Mrs McCulloch was over the moon to receive an e-mail from our visitors who praised our children’s behaviour and manners, while also saying that they were made to feel like celebrities while visiting RPS!
Thank you so much for paying us a visit…we’ll see you again soon!
Last week, we said a tearful goodbye to Mrs Somers who is has retired after forty years of working!
Mrs Somers has been a fantastic member of our staff team and is universally loved by staff and children alike.
Mrs Somers, we will miss your sunny disposition, your infectious laughter, your genuine personality, and the sweet tuneful sound of your guitar.
You have given your all for the young people at Rochsolloch Nursery Class, and for countless more children over the years. We would like to sincerely thank you, and wish you a happy retirement. Don’t miss us too much!
Several of our classes have been learning about Mapping and Coordinates during Numeracy and Maths lessons this term. P7 have extended their map reading skills by taking part in orienteering sessions around the school grounds.
The class have enjoyed their lessons so far and have clearly been able to see how what they learn in class can be useful in the real world!
Please note that the School newsletter for September can now be downloaded from the Newsletter page.
Over the next few days, our ‘Mud Kitchen Mood Board’ will be going up in the Nursery foyer. We are really keen to create a Mud Kitchen for our children to use during outdoor play but parents, grannys, grandads, we need your help! 
Do you remember how much fun it is playing in the dirt!? Do you have a few hours to spare? Can you help us source some of the equipment we need?
Read our latest Newsletter for full details or have a chat with a member of our Nursery team.
Please note that the Nursery newsletter for September can now be downloaded from the Newsletters Page.
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