Rochsolloch Primary School and Nursery ClassOur ‘We CAN Make a Difference’ appeal has resulted in a huge amount of donations. These will be passed on to the foodbank for Christmas – many thanks to everyone!
Take a look at the photographs of our collected food, organised by our School Captain and Vice-Captain.
On Wednesday and on Friday, we celebrated Loch Lomond winning the Term 1 house points competition with a House Treat, organised by our House Captains.
The pupils got together to make and decorate frosted biscuits, and, as you can see from the photos, they had an absolute blast! It is always nice to see our older and younger pupils collaborating together.
Well done Loch Lomond!
Congratulations to this term’s winners, Loch Ness, who will celebrate with a treat in the early part of 2017!
On Wednesday, we held our annual Christmas Service in the school. Each of our classes, and the School Choir performed a range of festive songs for the audience in our packed gym hall!
As our pupils get more and more used to performing on stage, the standard of performance just gets higher and higher and higher! There was a lovely mix of traditional and modern songs: some very lively and upbeat, others slower and more reflective.
Mr Hamilton did a great job leading the service for our pupils, staff and parents, and he was ably assisted by several excellent readers from across the school.
Each and every pupil on stage did themselves, their school and their families proud. It was a lovely way to cap off a busy and successful festive spell!
Congratulations to Tom and Katrina, who were winners in North Lanarkshire Council’s Christmas Card Competition. Their winning designs have been sent to dozens of schools and businesses across the authority!
Congratulations to the winner of our raffle, who was delighted to take home this enormous stuffed Pikachu! 
The Rochsolloch Primary School Choir were out in the local community again today, this time spreading Christmas cheer to the residents of Broomfield Gardens Sheltered Housing in Gartlea.
The children set themselves up in the Hobbies room and performed some festive tunes for the residents and staff, with many of them clapping, dancing along and even joining in with some of the singing!
Mr Innes would like to congratulate the children for doing such a wonderful job yet again, and he would also like to thank Mrs Morrison and Miss Kane for accompanying the children today. Our support staff and parent helpers play such an important role in ensuring our children get to take part in these wonderful experiences.
The Choir will now finish preparing to sing at the Christmas Service, before moving on to some new songs for the new year!
This morning our hall was filled to the brim with parents, grandparents, relatives and friends who had all come along to see the shining stars of Primary 1 as they presented: Lights, Camel, Action!
The children presented the traditional Christmas story in a very modern way, where each group of characters from the story performed a dance to help tell their part! We saw some lovely line-dancing, some terrific tango, some beautiful ballet, fabulous funk, delightful disco and heard some spectacular singing!
Watching the children on stage is always a privilege and for our P1 pupils, it shows just how far they have come since starting school. Their speaking, singing, dancing and overall confidence was terrific to see.
The whole performance was incredible, and I’m sure everyone who was lucky enough to be in the audience would agree: FAB – U – LOUS!!!
We would like to say a huge thank you to all of the staff who worked tirelessly to make this performance happen, and of course to the pupils of P2, P7 and the School Choir for their involvement in the show!
The performances from today and from yesterday’s dress rehearsal have been filmed and will soon be made into a DVD for our audience to relive the experience, or for those who were unable to come along on the day!
The Rochsolloch Primary School Choir were out in the local community today, performing a half hour set at Airdrie Tesco.
A crowd of parents, grandparents, friends of the school, and members of the public soon gathered and the audience were thoroughly entertained by a mixture of modern pop songs and Christmas songs.
Mr Innes, Miss Duncan and Mrs McLean were so proud of the way the children sang and represented our school in the local area. We’re already looking forward to next year!
Thank you so much to everyone who was able to come along and watch and help make this a memorable and special experience for our young singers!
The following post was written by the pupils of P5:
P5 and P5/6 went to the Gurdwara on Wednesday morning last week with Mrs Munoz and Miss Rangeley. The children went to the Gurdwara to learn about Sikhism. Mr Singh and Mrs Kaur came to Rochsolloch Primary to teach the school about their religion. We decided to go so that we could find out more! We also thought that since Mr Singh and Mrs Kaur travelled to see us, we should travel to see them!
When we arrived we had to take off our shoes, put on turbans and wash our hands. People do this in the Gurdwara as a sign of respect to god. We were taken upstairs and we were fortunate enough to hear some readings from the holy scriptures. We also learned a bit more about the ‘Five Ks’ of Sikhism and we had another shot of the musical instruments we got to play when Mr Singh and Mrs Kaur visited our class.
Our hosts were willing to share with us some traditional food including: spicy naan bread and mango juice, and our teachers were even given some vegetable pakora and chickpea curry!
We really enjoyed ourselves because we were made to feel very welcome and as you can see from the pictures we had a lot of fun! Thanks to Mrs Grimson and Mrs Lawrie for accompanying us on our trip!
At Rochsolloch Primary, we pride ourselves on bringing learning to life for our children. Our staff work hard to set learning in real life contexts, and to provide meaningful and engaging experiences for our pupils.
Take a look at some of the wonderful work that has been going on in P2/3 over the past couple of weeks! In the gallery you can see the children baking Christmas cakes as part of an enterprise project, which has filled our infant wing with a sweet festive smell this week! You can also see the children working on their Sound Energy Interdisciplinary Learning topic: investigating sound caused by vibrations of air particles and experimenting with un-pitched percussion instruments. Meanwhile, using pitched percussion, the children have also been learning to play Twinkle Twinkle and Jingle Bells on the Glockenspiel! Wow!
On Wednesday, P7 presented a terrific assembly, all about Electricity. The children have been studying the history of electricity in class with Miss Duncan, as well as taking part in several electricity based scientific experiments.
The assembly kicked off with a chilling rendition of a West End Musical hit before the pupils taught us all about what they have learned. The performance was eventually taken over by an eco-activist, who demanded that we think more carefully about the rate at which we use electricity.
“Enough is enough! Save our planet! Enough is enough! Save our Planet!”
As ever, our pupils made us very proud of them through the way they presented the immense amount of learning that has been taking place in their class. We all really enjoyed it boys and girls. Congratulations to the class and to Miss Duncan on a job well done!
There’s a real festive mood in the air at the moment here at Rochsolloch Primary! Our P1 Nativity rehearsals are in full swing, our school choir have been practising for their performance at the Christmas Fayre this weekend, and classes are beginning to work on their Christmas service performances.
On Monday, our pupils were treated to a marvellous pantomime, Dick Whittington, courtesy of M and M Productions.
http://www.magicoftheatre.com/
As you would expect, the children oohed and aahed as the performers entertained them with songs and action.
The Nursery Newsletter for December can now be downloaded from the Newsletters page.
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