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.
Category Archives: Primary 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!!
First Reconciliation
Our Pr.3 pupils have been busy preparing for the Sacrament of First Reconciliation. Tomorow evening they will attend a service at 7.00pm in St. Augustine’s Church to receive this Sacrament. All children are requested to dress in full school uniform. We keep all pupils and their families in our prayers.
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 8 Enterprising Challenge
The boys and girls of Room 8 have been busy at home planning, designing and creating their own board games. They presented them to their classmates and then played the games with the pupils of Room 3. Fantastic work boys and girls!!!
Advertising at it’s best!!
The whole school has been involved in making items for our Christmas Fair and excitement is mounting everyday. Here we have a picture of the Santa company as they shared their posters for their expertly made Santa’s. They have even included ingredients to check in case of allergies. They have thought of everything!!! Well done boys and girls!
Summerlee Heritage Museum
The pupils of Room 8 and Room 9 had a workshop this week courtesy of Summerlee Heritage Museum as part of their studies on Scotland. They looked at the are of weaving and making tartan and as you can see from the pictures had a very informative and entertaining afternoon.
