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P7 Outdoor Learning

As part of their topic on Scotland, P7 will be getting out into the great Scottish outdoors over the coming weeks, enjoying the Scottish weather and taking in the scenery.

This afternoon, the class worked in groups to create sun shelters using a limited selection of materials. Mr Innes was extremely impressed with the way the pupils collaborated and assigned roles to one another. Later in the term, the class will be building on this knowledge when they create ‘wild shelters’ in Brownsburn Local Nature Reserve – our favourite destination for outdoor learning!

Over the next four Tuesdays, our children will also be hiking, recording signs of animal life, and identifying and classifying insects and mini-beasts.

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P3/4 Titanic Assembly

Yesterday, P3/4 presented a terrific assembly, all about The Titanic.

The rain was so heavy that some of our guests may have needed a boat to get to the performance…but the hall was as busy as ever and the children did themselves proud as they wowed us with all of the knowledge they have built during their topic studies.

During the performance, we saw and heard about:

  • The five BIG QUESTIONS the class investigated
  • Some terrific folk dancing
  • Interesting information about the boat and its cabins
  • Two beautiful songs
  • Some absolutely incredible costumes
  • Confident speaking

We would like to say a huge well done to P3/4 and Miss Allan for presenting such an interesting and unique assembly! Thanks also to parents and carers for turning the children out so magnificently in their uniforms and costumes, and for helping the pupils with the wonderful homework projects they produced!

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Boxersize!

At Rochsolloch Primary School, we always aim to provide our children with two hours of high-quality physical education every week. During their time at school, our pupils learn that taking part in exercise has both physical and mental health benefits. Yesterday afternoon, our pupils from P4-P7 took part in a boxercise taster session, with the team from Bannan Fitness Club.

The children had a great time working up a sweat as they completed their routines using the gloves and pads, medicine balls and steppers. Boxersise is a really high-energy activity, so the pupils were testing their stamina as well as their strength!

Not content to let the pupils have all the fun, our staff team took part in a session of our own at the end of the school day, with most of use making use of muscles we’d forgotten we had!

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World of Work

P4/5 learned about the world of work today, when they were visited by Mrs McDonald, also known as Sophie’s Mum!

Mrs McDonald told the class all about what skills and qualities a person needs to be a good police officer. The children also learned about the different departments within the police service and about what the day to day job is like.

Finally the pupils were given a demonstration of some important police equipment before an arrest was made!

Thank you so much for visiting us Mrs McDonald, we really learned a lot!

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The Great Google Expedition

Today, all of our pupils from P1-P7 got the chance to take part in an amazing Google Expedition. Using virtual reality, our teachers guided our pupils through a variety of incredible locations linked to class studies, such as:

* The Great Barrier Reef

* The surface of the moon

* New York City

* The Great Wall of China

* Aurora Borealis

* Mount Everest

Our pupils absolutely loved this experience.  Here are some one sentence reviews from our P5 pupils:

“I thought it was a great experience and I thought it was absolutely amazing!” – Billy

“It felt so real!” – Archie and Robbie

“I loved it!” – Logan

“It was amazing having the chance to do that!” – Lucy

“It was good to have a different experience in school.” – Katie

“It felt like I was floating above The Great Wall of China!” – Max

 

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Rock On Rochsolloch!

Last night our pupils performed a wonderful rock concert in front of a jam-packed audience in New Wellwynd Church! Capping off the end of the Rookie Rockstars experience, our young rockers sang and danced their hearts out, amazing the crowd with their confidence and with the quality of their performance!

Take a look at the gallery and check out the fun our pupils had rocking out!

This really has been an amazing experience for our pupils, who have loved every minute of it.

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Talent Show!

As you may know, our School and House Captains and Vice-Captains have been working really hard over the past few weeks to organise and run a school talent show.

Our show was held in the assembly hall this morning, and it was definitely a big success! Our Captains and Vice-Captains did a great job of presenting the show and the talent on display was fantastic!

Our audience were wowed with some wonderful singing, dancing, music, poetry, gymnastics, art and even some impressions!

Check out the gallery below and have a look at our 13 marvellous acts, who all performed on stage this morning:

We would like to say a huge congratulations to everybody involved, with an extra special mention to our winners:

Robbie, in 3rd place, singing ‘We Will Rock You’, who has won 50 points for his house!

Alex, in 2nd place, who performed some live art with audience participation, earning 75 points for his house in the process.

Lucy and Amber, who sang beautifully and finished as joint winners…earning a whopping 100 points each for their houses!

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Digital Literacy Investment

As part of our School Improvement Plan, we have been looking to develop ‘Digital Literacy.’ With this in mind, we have invested in 24 brand new HP laptops, which will be used by all pupils in the school during the school year. In order to do this, we’ve combined some of our school budget with money raised by our Parent Council.

Take a look at these effective contributors from P5, who helped to ‘set-up’ and test our new laptops on Friday afternoon.

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Nursery Nativity – Professional Photographs!

On the 21st of December, both our AM and PM Nursery Class children performed a spectacular show: A Wriggly Nativity!

Everyone who came along would agree that the show was absolutely terrific. The children looked incredible in their costumes and sang their hearts out throughout the show!

After the show, our parents and guests enjoyed a mince pie and the relaxing notes of Mr Bees.  Check out our professional photographs in the gallery below.  We would again like to say a huge thank you to John Wilson Photography for providing us with such perfect snaps of our little stars in action!

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Community Police Visit

Today, Leanne and Connor from the Community Police popped in to the school for a visit. In the gallery, you can see P5 learning all about anti-social behaviour.  Leanne and Connor did a great job of explaining to our children what anti-social behaviour is and how they deal with it as part of their day to day jobs.

The pupils also got a chance to look at the protective equipment that is used by the police force and some unlucky pupils even found themselves in handcuffs!

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Scottish Assembly

As you will know, our pupils have recently been learning Scots poetry in class and at home as part of our annual Scottish Verse Speaking Competition. Today, we held our Scottish Assembly, where our pupils who had finished 1st, 2nd or 3rd in their class were presented with certificates in front of the whole school and invited guests.

Our competition winners performed their poems on stage to a jam-packed gym hall, and they were absolutely superb. Following the wonderful poetry recital, we were treated to a highland sword dance by two of our pupils, which was spectacular!

Congratulations to all of our winner, and to every pupil who competed in our Verse Speaking Competition – the standard of the performances was higher than ever!

Many thanks as well to all of our families who supported their children at home, taking the time to practice and get all of those tricky words just right!

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Princess Cinderella

This morning at assembly time, our pupils were met with a wonderful surprise!  Instead of our normal Wednesday assembly, the boys and girls from P1-P7 got together with the children from All Saints Primary to enjoy a magical, hilarious performance of Cinderella!

What a terrific way for our campus family to start the New Year together…

Oh yes it was!

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We CAN make a difference!

Our ‘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.
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Loch Lomond House Treat

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!

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Christmas Service

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!

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Choir in the Community: Part II

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!

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Lights, Camel…Action!

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!

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Choir in the Community

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!

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P5 and P5/6 Glasgow Gurdwara Visit

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!

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Hands-On Learning in P2/3

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!

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