The Infant department set off on an exciting journey to the Science Centre today. In class they are sure to be writing about their experiences, what they learned and what was most memorable about the day. The pictures give a little clue to how successful the day was for everyone.
Category Archives: Primary 2/3
Daffodil Tea
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.
Pr. 1- 3 Literacy Assembly
As promised we have pictures that capture the Literacy Assembly that took place on Friday. Parents were informed of the week long activities that took place across the school and also got a chance to listen to some authors and illustrators who shared their stories. All budding authors of the future. At the end of the assembly parents and grandparents got the opportunity to read the wonderful stories that were on display around the hall. A fabulous week!!
Literacy Week in Room 6
Here are some photos of the children in Room 6 enjoying Literacy Week activities. The pupils created a story board for their very own Fairytale. Having explored the key features of Traditional Tales, they were given the choice of retelling a favourite one in their own words or creating an imaginative storyline. They worked wth partners to asess, proof read and check each others’ work. They watched Francesca Simon, the author of the Horrid Henry stories, on line and listened to her inspiration, ideas and how she works closely with her illustrator -Tony Ross to create a first draft, then a second before it is sent to the publishers. The class then redrafted and illustrated their stories. Next it was time to design a front cover and think about a brief “blurb” for the back. When they were happy with their work it was sent to the publishers i.e. the Classroom Assistants! Who busily and carefully put the books together. The children are now looking forward to sharing them with their audience.
Also during the week the pupils Pair Read, went on a Word Scavenger Hunt, took part in the School Readathon in their PJs, listened to a Storyteller and watched a DVD of Matilda by Roald Dahl. They were heard saying they “had the best time ever”.
We are looking forward to dressing as story characters and presenting with school friends at the Literacy Assembly to round off a fab week. Truly inspiring!
Enterprise Committe News
The Pr.1 – 3 Enterprise Committee were hard at work at their committee meeting on Friday formulating plans for fundraising activities during Lent. Pupil entrepreneurial skills were out in force as pupil worked with partners to develop their ideas. Here are a few picture of the discussions taking place and the action plans being drawn up.
Committee News
The P1-3 Eco Committee had their first meeting of the new year on Friday. Cara, the Chairperson, took us through our agenda.
She firstly reminded us of our 2 new targets Biodiversity and Water. All other targets are on-going ( litter, Health, Waste Energy and School Grounds).
Here are some up and coming events and activities for our new targets.
Water –
Classroom lessons will take place to help children understand the importance of water in our daily lives.
Science Centre visits have been organised for the theme of water.
Science investigations on the theme of water will take place within classrooms where the pupils will be involved in planning, recording, reporting back and making conclusions.
World Water Day will be celebrated in our school – 22nd March 2016.
Biodiversity –
Garden Day – following our previous years very successful event we are again going to start of our school grounds/garden with an exciting garden day. Date – beginning March/more information to follow. We have always been so fortunate to have a team of volunteers to help us on this day and will again be grateful if you could give a couple of hours to help us with our garden work. Please contact school when our date is confirmed.
Garden Club- Mrs Chisholm will run her very popular garden club afterschool on Wednesdays for P1-3. This will start the week after Garden Day, early March. Date to follow. Children will receive a letter about club. Please return quickly if your child is interested.
Health Committee News
The P1-3 HWB Committee opened up our new kitchen yesterday at our first meeting since the kitchen has been ready to use. We discussed health & safety and hygiene before we split inot two groups to begin our tasks. The first group made healthy cucumber and cheese wraps in the kitchen area and the other group designed ‘Welcome Posters’ to be displayed in and around our kitchen area. These posters are to advertise and promote our new kitchen. We then swapped over so that both groups got to experience both activities.
The aim was to carry this message back to our teachers and peers in order to share this good news and encourage all classes to use our Healthy Kitchen area. We ar very grateful to our PTA for working so hard to support the school and fund this great asset. Our chairperson Adam, recorded the minutes of our meeting in our HWB Committee folder which is available on our display board.
Room 6 News
The boys and girls of Room 6 were highly creative today as they designed and made their own ear muffs. A handy thing to make in this cold and chilly weather. Hopefully the boys and girls will do a fashion show for us next week at our assembly.
Infant Party Time
The pupils of Pr.1,2 and3 enjoyed their party this afternoon. They even had a visit from a very special visitor who came along with presents for everyone!! Look at our slide show with highlights of the afternoon!!
Badger the Mystical Mutt
The boys and girls of Pr 1 -4 had a visit from author Laura Jackson and her friend Badger! They had an entertaining morning listening to stories about Badger from his collection of books. The school bought several sets of books for classes which Laura signed for the school. Some lucky children also received their own signed copies.
