The boys and girls of Room 4 were busy today working on a variety of mathematical challenges in the activity area today. They were happy to share their learning with their peers. Great work boys and girls!!
Category Archives: Primary 2
Sunflower Tea
Our first Sunflower Tea was a great success with a fabulous turnout from parents. Today we raised the fantastic sum of over £320. This was a wonderful sum of money and we warmly thank the generosity of our parents and grandparents who joined us this morning. Our guests were entertained with a medley of music from our talented young musicians while they had their tea. We are delighted that we have so many pianists and violinists. It was also wonderful to be joined by some of our children who attend the Saturday Traditional Music Group who entertained by playing the penny whistle and the banjo!! Later on in the morning our lovely and enthusiastic Pr.1 – 3 pupils joined us to sing songs and recite some poetry. As a school we had raised money from our Daffodil Tea and Easter Bonnet Parade and this money joined the sum raised today. We were able to give Andy Flynn from St.Andrew’s Hospice a cheque that came to the grand total of £1,000. Andy informed us that the school has raised the staggering sum of over £15,000 for St.Andrew’s Hospice. Quite an achievement. Let’s hope we can continue the great tradition of supporting the Hospice.
Sports Day
Our sports day was a resounding success with everyone in the school taking part and joining in the spirit of the event. The weather was extremely kind to us all day as we basked in the sunshine between races. Many thanks to the army of mums and helpers who came along to help out on the day to make sure everything ran so smoothly. Many thanks also to our Sports Leaders from St.Ambrose who did a marvellous job stewarding the event. We were delighted that so many of our mums and dads took part in the final races, you really showed the wonderful community we have here at St.Augustine’s? I am quite sure your children were proud of you even if you didn’t win as it is all about the taking part!!
Almond Valley
Pupils from Pr.1 – 3 went off for a fun filled day at Almond Valley on Tuesday. Our prayers were answered as the sun shone to make it a wonderful day for everyone. Here a few pictures of the days events!
Focus on Food
Dorothy Anne Audrey, Focus on Food Curriculum Development Officer, came in to support our Health Week on Tuesday. She delivered small cooking workshops to our primary two children in our kitchen.
They learned about kitchen safety and how to handle small knives. They also made a delicious pasta salad. The smell was delicious and everyone wanted to taste their food. It’s a pity there wasn’t enough to go around as I was waiting patiently but they had eaten the lot!!!
A Visit from Peter of Glasgow Fruit Market
Peter from the Glasgow fruit market came to support our Health Week on Tuesday. He worked with our infant department. He explained the role of a market worker and we were shocked to hear he has been working since 3am and some others start work at 2am in the morning!
He brought along lots of fruit and vegetables from other countries. Everyone did their best to guess where they came from.
Peter brought grapes from Brazil, bananas from South America, Strawberries from Spain, melon from Chilli and lots more interesting fruit and veg like ginger and eggplant.
The children had a quiz with Peter and had to name fruit and vegetables beginning with different sounds! They also had to make a healthy lunchbox.
Peter talked about fruits that grow in warmer countries and stressed the importance of establishing lifelong healthy eating habits.
The children then had the lovely task of tasting the delicious fresh fruit from the market, some children chose to taste fruit that they had never tasted before.
It was a delightful visit enjoyed be all. We would love to welcome Peter back to school and hope he has a long lie soon after all those early mornings!
Health Week
Our Health Week is well underway with all children involved in a full programme of activities and visits. On Monday the school welcomed NLC Nutritionist Michelle McGuiness who did a considerable amount of work with Pr.1 – 5 pupils. Firstly she worked with Pr.4 and Pr.5 to give a 10 mins talk about health eating and healthy food. Children were then encouraged to create their own healthy menu of starter, main meal and dessert which was then collected to assist with a future menu planning meeting. In addition there were food tasters for the children. Our Pr.1 – 3 children were involved in going to a variety of stations around the school hall. As you can see there was plenty to keep everyone involved and hopefully the healthy food and healthy eating message got across to all.
Prayer service
Many thanks to all parents and grandparents who came along to celebrate with us at the service for Our Lady during the final week of May. Our Pr.1,2 and 3 pupils did a fine job in leading the prayer service and celebrating not only Mary, Mother of God but all mothers and grandmothers. This was the first time parents had been invited to the service and they very kindly thanked staff for the lovely invitation. It was lovely to see so many our our parents taking the time to come along and pray with us as a school community. We aim to continue involving our wider school community in joining us as often as possible as a community of faith and learning.
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!
Raising Money for Charity
The boys and girls of the Global Citizens Committee raised the staggering sum of £614.50 thanks to their fund raising work and the contribution made by the pupils of Room 3. The money will be sent to the San Juan Apostol School in Arequipa, Peru. Quite an achievement boys and girls.
