Rochsolloch Primary School and Nursery ClassOn Tuesday, the boys and girls from our nursery class joined our P1s and P6s for a shared playtime as part of our transition programme!
The children enjoyed getting the chance to play in the school playground, and many of them had the opportunity to meet their buddies for next year! They also got a chance to get to know a few of our Rochsolloch teachers, so there will be plenty of friendly faces to greet them in August!
Last night marked the end of our Number Talks Family Learning Group. Following the hard work, our parents and children enjoyed some well-deserved treats!
Feedback from the group has been really positive, and we are delighted to hear that our children (and parents!) are feeling more confident in using lots of different strategies to solve calculations!
Every year, our Parent Council donate £200 to our P7 pupils as part of an annual enterprise project.
Our P7s are then charged with coming up with an idea for how to make that money grow. The profits they make fund an end-of-year treat, which the children choose themselves.
This year, the P7 pupils from Mr Flanigan and Miss Duncan’s classes decided to hold a sporty raffle. £1 buys five tickets, with the lucky winner winning the wonderful prize shown below:
In addition to the raffle, our P7 pupils are also making delicious fruit sundaes which are being sold as a healthy snack option for pupils throughout the school. Fruit sundaes cost 70p.
Every Thursday, Miss Clerkson and Miss Allan run an after-school netball club for P5-P7 pupils. The children have really developed their confidence and skills over the course of the year and have enjoyed some success at recent netball competitions.
Today, their practice session took an unexpected twist, when it was gatecrashed by a group of very competitive teachers!
The boys and girls in the team had been keen to pit their skills against the teachers, and everybody had a great time at this afternoon’s session!
The scoreboard might show that the teachers were very successful, but there may have been (more than) a little bit of cheating happening!
One of our parents, Gail Wilson, The Manager of Scotland’s Womens Volleyball team, came in to speak to our Sports Education Managers and Assistant Managers. She talked about her job, all the things and people that she was responsible for, what she liked about her job, as well as the bits that she didn’t like about her job! She showed the children how her team would go through the steps of shaking hands and exchanging gifts with the other countries they played against. Some of the children got small badges that would be part of this exchange. All of the children also got Scottish Volleyball wristbands. She will also be sending in 2 volleyballs signed by all of the Scottish Volleyball team that we can either raffle or use as prizes in our Sports Education!
Thank you Mrs Wilson – you were a fantastic help!
P7 have enjoyed visiting Brownsburn Local Nature Reserve as part of their Outdoor Learning this year. Yesterday, the class were joined by park ranger Kirsty Mooney, to make an important trip to the park.
Did you know that there are European Water Vole living just behind our school? Our responsible citizens have been playing their part in developing the environment to ensure the survival of this endangered species. The pupils achieved this through planting particular types of plant around the wetland area – these plants will help encourage the water voles to the area. They must be delicious!
As you can see from our gallery, it was tough work!
Our children have been learning about foods from around the world recently. One of our parents, Chef John, came in to teach the children about Italian food!
He made some delicious carbonara, garlic bread and pizza for our boys and girls to taste! The children were also involved in helping Chef John, and enjoyed discussing all of the different ingredients in the food.
On behalf of the girls and boys, we would like to thank Chef John for coming to visit. Thanks John!!!
P2 have been working very hard this term with Mrs Harper and Mrs Paterson, practising for their class assembly. The children looked absolutely terrific on stage dressed as a motley crew of Scottish pirates and mermaids! They shared a huge amount of class learning with their audience, and also displayed some of their fabulous topic work in the school dining hall.
P2, we especially enjoyed:
We would like to say a big well done to our pupils and teachers for working so hard to produce their performance for us today! Thank you also to our families and friends for joining us in such large numbers – you really help to make these events special!
This morning, P6/7 presented an excellent assembly, all about Japan!
The assembly started and ended with some perfectly spoken Japanese, and included a magnificent Japanese karaoke version of ‘Let It Go’! That’s definitely a Rochsolloch Primary School first!
The audience were transfixed on our performers as they shared with us some of the wonderful learning that has been taking place in the class in recent weeks. P6/7 have truly covered the whole curriculum through this topic, investigating everything from sport to natural disasters – even making some delicious sushi!
The way the children presented their complex spoken lines was absolutely tremendous. They did themselves proud!
Thank you so much to all of our parents, grandparents and friends who turned out to help make this a great experience for our children. Thank you also to Mr Flanigan and Miss Findlay to preparing the children so well for this wonderful showcase!
The minutes from March’s Parent Council Meeting are now available for download from the Parent Council page.
After school yesterday, we were joined by some parents and children for the first session of our After School Family Learning Club.
Mrs McCulloch, Miss Allan, Miss Duncan and Miss Findlay worked with our parents and pupils on ‘Number Talks’, which is a new numeracy initiative being taken forward in our school.
The pupils and their parents worked together on a variety of calculations, investigating and learning new ways of working with numbers.
We have seen a big improvement in the ability of our children to solve calculations using efficient strategies since introducing Number Talks in our classes across the school. Many of our pupils are now much more confident in their understanding of number and their ability to tackle difficult calculations using a variety of strategies.
Keep it up everyone!
It certainly was a busy day at Rochsolloch Primary School yesterday!
We were visited by Mark McGuinness, from Ecosse Boxing Club. Martin is a former Commonwealth boxing coach, and he joined us to share some of his expertise with our children.
After speaking to the whole school at assembly, Mark took some classes for individual sessions, where he taught the children about the sport and gave them a chance to try it out.
Check out the gallery below!
Our pupils and guests had a real treat at school this morning, as P4/5 and Mrs Rodman presented an incredible assembly, all about Vikings!
During the assembly the pupils shared a huge amount of knowledge and displayed wonderful skills, including:
All while really looking the part in some amazing costumes!
We would like to say a huge congratulations to P4/5 and Mr Rodman – we think it was one of the best assemblies we have ever had at Rochsolloch!
Thank you so much to our audience, parents and guests who came along – for your lovely comments and for supporting the children with their terrific costumes and super homework projects.
The Nursery Newsletter for May is now available to download from the Newsletter Page.
Yesterday, some of our P7 boys took part in the Airdrie Schools Cup football event, organised by Active Schools.
Our children enjoyed the experience, with every member of the squad getting plenty of game time! Following the event, medals were presented by some of the Airdrieonians football players – with one member of our team being particularly star-struck!
Look out for more about the event in the Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser.
Yesterday at assembly we were visited by Julie from Down’s Syndrome Scotland, who arrived to receive our large cheque of £298.10!
Julie also taught us more about the wonderful work of Down’s Syndrome Scotland, and thanked our school pupils for their amazing contribution!
Before leaving, our pupils treated Julie to a display of some of our Makaton sign language we have been learning – we think she was really impressed!
You will remember last term we took part in fundraising activities for Down’s Syndrome Scotland and Comic Relief.
Between our school classes and nursery classes, we managed to raise:
Thank you so much for helping us support these wonderful causes!
This morning, the pupils from P2/3 and Mrs Hill presented an excellent assembly all about Sound Energy.
The children shared a wealth of knowledge about sound, including: how sound is created through vibrations, Morse Code, and how our ears help us with balance as well as hearing.
We also got to see how the children have developed their musical skills during their topic through excellent demonstrations of glockenspiel playing and drumming.
We really enjoyed the performance P2/3, and the feedback from your audience was first class!
Great job children; great job Mrs Hill!
Today marked the end of an amazing week of fundraising at Rochsolloch Primary School!
Our school and nursery children came to school wearing red, to celebrate the wonderful work of the Comic Relief charity.
Grand totals for both Comic Relief and Down’s Syndrome Scotland will be announced next week, but early indications show that we have raised around £200 for Down’s Syndrome Scotland and over £400 for Comic Relief.
In addition to this money, we also managed to sell an unbelievable 300 red noses! Each nose sold provides Comic Relief with at least 60p towards the charity.
Don’t forget to tune in to Comic Relief TV tonight to find out about the wonderful worldwide projects that your generous donations will be supporting. Red noses are available at Sainsbury’s for anyone who wasn’t one of the ‘lucky few’ to pick one up this week!
We are so proud of your efforts children!!!
We have now successfully sold 180 red noses for Comic Relief!
Thank you so much for your support! The Pupil Council will continue to sell red noses at playtime on Thursday and Friday.
New photos have been added to the gallery below.
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