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.
The wonderful boys and girls of Room 7 have been extremely busy both in class and at home as they worked upon their project about Coatbridge. In the picture gallery below you will see a few snapshots of their recent visit to Summerlee and the wonderful 3D models they constructed to replicate Coatbridge landmarks. Well done boys and girls you really have excelled. Now we have to find somewhere to display this wonderful work so that the school community can see your masterpieces!!
As part of the children’s Interdisciplinary Learning about Coatbridge the boys and girls of Room 6 and 7 visited Summerlee Heritage Museum on Wednesday. Teachers reported that the children enjoyed a highly informative and entertaining visit to the museum that brought to life their class studies. Some brave children even visited the mine!!
In Room 6, the Primary 3/2 children were very lucky to receive a visit from a parent expert who gave a wonderful presentation to the pupils on Town Planning as part of their class IDL theme on “My Town Coatbridge”. A big thank you to Mr Ward for sharing his knowledge and expertise! This has made learning much more enjoyable and meaningful for the pupils. Room 6 will be visiting Summerlee Heritage Centre in November for a workshop based around this theme alongside pupils from Room 7, 8 and 9. This will be a great opportunity to get outdoors into our local area and put learning into a real-life context.
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.
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!!
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!
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!
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.
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.
