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 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.