Our Pr.5 pupils from Room 12 were eager to share their gardening experience with you all. Mrs.McGlone and her band of merry helpers were busy planting and weeding in our school grounds last week. Our school grounds are really looking great just now thanks to the commitment and hard work of the classes and the gardening club who are making frequent visits to our school garden area. It is great to see that children are taking such a pride in our school.
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First Communion
Our first group of First Communicants celebrated their First Holy Communion on Sunday at the 10 and 12 o’clock Masses. Everyone agreed they did a marvellous job, looked wonderful and made their families, teacher and school feel extremely proud. Here are the pictures of the groups on the day. We can now look forward to the next group of pupils who will receive their First Holy Communion on Sunday. We continue to pray for the children and their families at this important time.
Dogs Trust Visit Room 1 and 2
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!
Pr.5 in the Garden
As part of Room 12’s Interdisciplinary work on Biodiversity they were out in the garden this week to do some weeding in our school garden and to plant sunflowers in our greenhouse. As you can see they chose a lovely day to work in the garden.
Election Fever
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!!
The Week Ahead
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.
First Friday Mass
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.
Musical talent on show from Pr.1
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 Assembly
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!!
Pr.1 Gymnastics!!
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..
