Our Enterprise Afterschool Club are now busy at work decorating their plant pots for selling at our Sunflower Tea.   They will be planting sunflower seeds in the pots next week.  Great work boys and girls!

The Pr.1 children of Room 3 have been getting to grips with a new maths resource called Numicon to aid them in their understanding of number and maths.  The boys and girls of Room 1 and 2 have also become proficient in using this new resource.

Room 3 and 4 were out in the lovely sunshine last week enjoying their ‘Daily Mile’ challenge.  Both classes have been walking, jogging or running their mile and have thoroughly enjoyed themselves.  As you can see they are very enthusisatic about keeping fit and healthy!

Primary 1 have made a magnificent job of caring for and learning about their butterflies. They followed the journey/life cycle of a butterfly beginning with tiny little caterpillars, then growing fat and making cocoons and finally emerging as beautiful butterlies.
Throughout their learning the children recorded all the changes with photographs, drawings and excellent sentences.
The children understood how important it was to play their part in nature by caring for living things. Today was exciting and a little bit sad as we released the butterflies into our garden. We will be looking out for them coming back and visiting our lovely school garden.  Mrs. Chisholm

What a lovely day everyone had for the first garden club of the year!
The children used their first day to familiarise themselves with where we are now with the garden.
They looked at what is currently growing in our greenhouse.
They investigated the new compost bin and discussed how our school could use it.
They also had a look around the shed and learned about tool safety.
Finally the children watered the plants and had a go using a garden tool.
The children will now help with future plans for our garden.
A great time had by all!

Today Primary 1 pupils had a special visit from Pets at Home Coatbridge store.  They brought some very special guests with them including a rabbit and two baby guinea pigs.  They told the children how to look after the animals and gave important tips about diet and exercise.  The children got to hold the animals and they were very friendly, soft and fluffy.  This term the boys and girls are going to learn about Pets and this visit is an ideal oportunity to begin this learning  journey.  Pets at Home are celebrating their 25th birthday so the children even got to have a birthday party for the animals.  Pets at Home brought along party hats, colouring sheets and magazines for the children to find out more about looking after pets.  The boys and girls had a lovely mornng and thank you Pets at Home for your support.

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An exciting and highly educational day was had by all with children completely enthused with their day.  Below is a slideshow that captures they day beautifully.

On Friday the school threw it’s doors open once again to parents and grandparents as we hosted a Daffodil Tea for Marie Curie, one of our Lenten Charities.  The hall was packed, with additional seating being laid on to accommodate all our visitors. The boys and girls, resplendent in yellow for the occasion entertained with a medley of poetry and song.  Many thanks to our wonderful violinists who also entertained and to our House Captains and Vice Captains who took charge of proceedings. They did a wonderful job and lead the event beautifully. Thank you to  all who attended and for your very generous donations. We hope you enjoyed the morning.

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These fabulous pictures from Room 3 capture the writing process and the activities that the pupils were involved in during Literacy Week.  You can see their storyboards that captured their ideas before the started their redraft.  Great work boys and girls and what exciting stories.

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