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Primary 1, Primary 2

Dogs Trust Visit Room 1 and 2

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Room 1 and 2 had a very exciting visit from Dogs Trust today! Alison from Dogs Trust visited our school today with her own special ‘classroom assistant’ called Alfie. Alfie lives at home with Alison and visits all the schools with her to teach all the boys and girls how to look after a dog.

Alison informed the children about all the fantasic work that the people at Dogs Trust do.

Children learned how to look after a dog: how to groom its hair, give it a bath, pick up its poop and also how to give our dog exercise.

Children learned what a microchip was and how it works. Alfie had a microchip and Hannah used Alison’s special device to check for Alfies chip. The device made a loud beep and showed lots of numbers. When these numbers are put into the computer, they exactly where the dog lives and who its owner is.

The children had a lovely morning with Alfie and were very sad when he had to go and visit another school, he did promise he would come back and visit again soon!

Primary 7

Election Fever

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It was great to see our senior pupils becoming involved in politics the day after the election. As I made my way around school on Friday I stumbled upon heated debates taking place between Labour candidates and SNP candidates in Pr.7, Room 16. It was evident from the quality of the conversations and interviews taking place that the children had shown a great interest in the recent election and could talk quite confidently about manifesto pledges. Impressive work indeed boys and girls. Politicians of the future!!

Whole School

The Week Ahead

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This week is a short week at school for our pupils as we have a Bank Holiday and an in-service day on Thursday. The school will be used for election purposes so staff only have access to certain parts of the building on that day. This week we have visits from Action for Safe Play who will run a mini play rangers programme for some of our senior pupils. Two of of senior pupils will attend an Eco Conference at Greenhill School on Tuesday morning along with Mrs.Chisholm. Our Pr.4 pupils will make two visits to the Church this week to prepare for their First Communion on Sunday.
As part of our self-evaluation process the pupils will complete a questionnaire this week that will let us know what they think of school and how we can continue to improve and make it better for all pupils. The staff are looking forward to seeing the collated results.

Whole School

First Friday Mass

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It was lovely to see the school community gather together for First Friday Mass last week. Father Kane spoke to the children about May being a special month of devotion to Our Lady and also spoke about our Primary 4 pupils who will receive their First Holy Communion in the coming weeks. Our next school service will take place at St.Augustine’s Church on Friday 5th June. We look forward to joining with the parish community at this service and seeing as many of our parents and grandparents coming to worship with us as a coummunity of faith.

Primary 1

Musical talent on show from Pr.1

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There was a lot of mystery taking place around strange events in Room 1 and 2 last week. Class pets Floppy and Spud went on a walkabout and were posted missing for a whole day! Wanted posters and search parties were sent out to find out their whereabouts. They eventually turned up in Mrs.Docherty’s office. They are really mischievous dogs who were up to no good so the boys and girls now know they will have to watch their pets really closely. Some of our Pr.1 pupils made their own delightful song with musical accompaniment to help find their pets! A creative bunch indeed!

Whole School

Whole School Assembly

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At our whole school assembly on Tuesday there were a number of awards given out that Mrs.Docherty found in the office. Children who attended the Speech and Drama Festival and the Music Board of the Royal Schools of Music exam received their awards and were clearly delighted. One of our pupils was delighted to share her with everyone the medal she received. What a group of talented children!!

Primary 1

Pr.1 Gymnastics!!

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Primary one have been learning great skills in gymnastics. They can travel safely along a bench and perform a pencil jump and a star jump. They also had great fun learning to do forward rolls and wanted to let you know how active they have been during their P.E. slots..

Primary 1

Pr.1 in the garden

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If you are passing the entrance to the school you will have noticed the great work that has been taking place in the school garden. The whole school is now taking part in maintaining school grounds and a timetable has been drawn up to ensure everyone is involved. This week our two Primary 1 classes were working as a team to address our targets of biodiversity, as part of this they tidied the garden by collecting sticks and stones from the ground. They put them into the wheelbarrow and then used biodiversity challenge cards to work as part of a team and make garden pictures. In teams they made pictures such as: a house, an animal, a car and a person, all from the collected sticks and stones.
Some children also worked with Mrs Chisholm to plant bean plants into the ground. They had been in our greenhouse over the holidays and are growing very tall.
Great work Primary 1!!!!

Whole School

The Week Ahead

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Our week ahead is a busy one as always at St.Augustine’s school.
MONDAY – Running Club Pr.5 – 3.00- 4.00 (Mrs.Robb). This week a letter will be issued to all Pr.5
pupils to invite more of our pupils to attend. Details will also feature in the
newsletter to raise awareness at whole school level of all our clubs. Permission letters
in regard of all clubs will be issued this week.
TUESDAY – Claudia Mendonca will visit the school to discuss parking concerns in light of work on
the school travel plan.
WEDNESDAY – Mrs.Cameron will be out of school to attend a training course and Mrs.Gilhooly will
cover the class in the morning.
Mrs.Docherty will meet with Ciaran Fagan from Parent Action for Safe Play in regard of
plans for activity clubs this session.
Gardening Club – 3.00 – 4.00 (Mrs.Chisholm)
John Muir Club – 3.00 – 4.00 ( Mrs.O’Neil)
PARENT COUNCIL MEETING – 6.30pm
P.T.A.MEETING – 7.30pm. New members are welcome.
THURSDAY – Badminton – Pr. 6 classes 1.20 – 3.00pm. Badminton afterschool club to commence 3.00pm
FRIDAY – Pupil Learning Communities first meetings.

Our Pr. 7 pupils have responded magnificently to our appeal for greater supervision within the dinner hall to ensure our school is an effective Eco school that recycles fully. The Pr.7 pupils are currently working on a rota basis which means that they would be required to work as a Lunchtime Eco Monitor only twice (two lunchtimes) in a whole term for a period of only 30 minutes. This would ensure that they still have adequate time to play during their lunch break.

The school is looking forward to returning to school on Monday to see the new flooring that has been fitted in the hall marked with appropriate floor markings that will facilitate its use as a gym hall with netball court and badminton court lines marked out for the use of all classes.

The school is awaiting confirmation in result of imminent building work that we hope will take place as soon as possible to address ongoing concerns in regard of the roof. Last week we had a visit to our school kitchen from North Lanarkshire to discuss a possible refurb. We will keep you posted in regard of the outcome of the meeting. As always our fingers are crossed.
The school has ordered a skip for this week that will enable us to begin clearing the school of old furniture as we spring clean the school. Several classes are being looked at with a view to equiping them with new furniture for the start of the new session in August.
Our monthly newsletter will be issued this week so please remember to check your child’s school bag as it will have important dates for your diary.