It’s been quite a while since I’ve had the chance to blog about what is happening in our wonderful school. \u00a0It was lovely to see everyone back today after the October holiday and to find out what all of the children have been doing during the break. \u00a0It was great to have such lovely weather and I hope everyone had the chance to spend some time outdoors.<\/p>\n
Miss Tiffney is still unwell and won’t be back at work this week. \u00a0The children in P4\/5 are really missing her and send her get well wishes. \u00a0Mrs. Glen and Mrs. Scott will teach the class this week.<\/p>\n
I visited the nursery class this morning and as soon I walked into the playroom, one of the children invited me to share an ‘under the sea’ counting book with her. \u00a0It was great to take 10 minutes out of my day to sit in the library corner with her and share the story together. \u00a0It was very kind of her to ask me to join in.<\/p>\n
Primary 3 and 4\/5 have been very busy practising for their upcoming ‘Egyptian’ assembly which takes place a week on Friday at 9.30am. \u00a0I have had a wee sneak preview of some of the singing and dancing – I am sure all of the parents and guests will really enjoy it. \u00a0The children will be writing invitations in their taught writing lesson this week which will be sent home this week.<\/p>\n
After lunchtime, I worked with P1\/2 and P2 as they took their learning outdoors. \u00a0They were using playground chalk to draw pictures on the ground of everything they know about ‘autumn’ ahead of their new block of interdisciplinary learning. \u00a0There was lots of pictures of trees losing their leaves and of Hallowe’en costumes. \u00a0Mr. O’Donnell was busy writing down lots of comments the children were making onto paper leaves. \u00a0I wonder if these will be part of the children’s learning journey display?<\/p>\n
Today was the start of the new colour band system for school dinners, and I am delighted that it went so smoothly. \u00a0All of the children having a school dinner chose their meal in the morning and then came to the dinner hall wearing the correct colour band. \u00a0I was very pleased that the amount of leftover food was reduced and that the very last person to come to the counter still got exactly what he ordered.<\/p>\n
Please help continue to make this go smoothly by talking to your child about what they will choose each day. \u00a0You can see the menu here<\/a>\u00a0or sign up for email alerts<\/a> to have it sent directly to you every week.<\/p>\n Two important letters were sent home with the children today. \u00a0Pupils in P1-7 have received a letter about this term’s after-school clubs. \u00a0I am delighted to be able to offer P1-3 Fun Fitness, P1-3 Art and Crafts, P4-7 Football and P4-7 Cross Country. \u00a0Later on in the month, I hope to be able to offer a P2-4 dance club too.<\/p>\n The second letter was about the Nursery to P7 pantomime. \u00a0This year, the children will visit Hamilton Town House to see ‘Sleeping Beauty’. \u00a0Our wonderful Parent Council have contributed \u00a3500 towards the cost, which is simply amazing! \u00a0The school will provide a snack and a drink for the outing. \u00a0Please return the tear off slips and money for the pantomime as soon as possible to ensure your child’s place is secured.<\/p>\n I will be teaching Primary 5\/6 all day tomorrow and am looking forward to teaching them about information report writing, budgeting money in maths and some french revision too.<\/p>\n Remember that you can find out more about the life of the school on our Twitter page <\/a>too. \u00a0Why not follow us with a Twitter account of your own?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been quite a while since I’ve had the chance to blog about what is happening in our wonderful school. \u00a0It was lovely to see everyone back today after the October holiday and to find out what all of the children have been doing during the break. \u00a0It was great to have such lovely weather … Continue reading “Mr. Clark’s Blog – Monday 19th October 2015”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140126,93,15044,15046,15148,15149,140507],"tags":[30591,53512,1306,344,432],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-head-teachers-news","category-nursery","category-primary-12","category-primary-45","category-primary-56","category-primary-67","category-school-blog","tag-early-learning","tag-head-teachers-blog","tag-outdoor-learning","tag-pantomime","tag-staff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/staneprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/staneprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/staneprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/staneprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/staneprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/staneprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":941,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/staneprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/staneprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/staneprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/staneprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}