Rochsolloch Primary School and Nursery ClassOver the past couple of weeks, our Nursery parents and children have been taking part in the ‘Big Chef, Little Chef’ project with Mrs Morrison.
The project involves parent and child cookery classes, where our family members work together as a team to create healthy recipes together.
The photos below show very clearly how much fun our chefs are having!
Last week, we held our long-awaited ‘Grand Opening’ of the Nursery Mud Kitchen. Therese Henry from North Lanarkshire Council and Mrs McLean, our Head Teacher had the honour of declaring the Mud Kitchen (Officially!) open for business!
Following the opening, there was a tea party with the children, including celebratory dancing! Our helpers were also sent home with mud mask favours as a token of our gratitude.
We would like to once again offer our sincere thanks to all adult helpers and staff who helped make this dream a reality!
We were visited today by a very special guest!
This month, our SHANARRI focus is ‘Achieving’ and to support our understanding of this concept, we were privileged to welcome Eilish McColgan to Rochsolloch Primary today. Eilish is a Scottish record holder and British Champion distance runner. She has also represented Scotland at 6 Commonwealth games, as well as Great Britain at 6 European Championships and 2 Olympic Games!
Eilish taught us a lot about hard work and dedication. She explained that although she loved running as a child, she didn’t win her first race until she was 18! Obviously her hard work paid off! Eilish encouraged our boys and girls to dream big and to never give up, which is a wonderfully positive message! Eilish also explained how taking part in sport was a great way to meet new people, and she showed us photos she had taken with two of the world’s most famous athletes: Usain Bolt and Mo Farah! Cool or what!?
We were delighted to welcome you into our school today Eilish, and we will be cheering for you at the next big competition!!!
On the 31st of October, we welcomed Marie-Clare from Chefs at Schools who took some of our classes for a cookery session, making ‘Spooky Healthy Treats.’
The pupils learned all about how to prepare food safely and hygienically as they made spooky-themed fruity treats. Yum yum!
Our children are often given the opportunity to prepare food as it is so important that we help them to develop this essential life skill!
We would like to thank Marie-Clare sincerely for providing our pupils with this terrific experience and we look forward to welcoming her back into school in the near future.
On Tuesday 25th of October, Primary 5 and Mrs Munoz visited Morrisons as part of our ‘Healthy’ focus month. The children had an absolute blast as they were given a magnificent tour by members of staff.
The pupils visited numerous departments of the store, including the fishmonger, cheese counter and bakery. The children were even given the chance to scan some items through the tills!
Following the visit, P5 wrote letters of thanks to the Morissons staff with Mr Innes. From reading the letters, it was very clear that the pupils very much enjoyed their visit, learning a great deal in the process!
The Nursery Newsletter for November can now be downloaded from the Newsletter page.
Please note that our Parent Council Newsletter for October is available to download from the Parent Council section of the website.
At last week’s assembly, we were very lucky to have a visit from Mr Singh and Mrs Kaur, who taught our whole school all about Sikhism, which is the world’s fifth largest religion.
The children learned about some of the main beliefs and practices of Sikhism. It is always fascinating to learn about a variety of cultures. Following the assembly, all of our P4-P7 pupils got class visits from Mr Singh and Mrs Kaur, who taught them more about the religion, answered questions, and showed off some turban wrapping skills. The children were also given the chance to try out some traditional Indian instruments.
Check out the gallery below showing our children enjoying their first learning adventure in our brand new Mud Kitchen! We are so excited to see the positive impact our Mud Kitchen will have on the learning of our boys and girls. As you can see, learning certainly is fun (if a little messy) in our Nursery!
After a great deal of hard work, we are delighted to announce that our Nursery mud kitchen is now complete!
The children can stop peering out of those windows now and can actually get out and explore…the messier the better!
We would like to offer our sincere thanks to everybody who has helped make this dream project a reality. It was a magnificent team effort and we could not be any happier with the results!
It has been a very productive few days over at the Nursery! The sun has been kind to our parent helpers and nursery staff who have been working tirelessly on our brand new mud kitchen!
Excellent progress is being made but there are lots of jobs still to do! Thankfully, we have a wonderful team, who are toiling away with smiles on their faces!
Our boys and girls can’t help but keep peering out of the windows to see just what’s going on! With the kitchen itself arriving tomorrow, the excitement won’t let up any time soon. Let’s hope the sun doesn’t let up either!
Please note that the latest Nursery Newsletter can now be downloaded from the Newsletter page.
Slides 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
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