Classes this week were incredibly busy as they set off on a species hunt around school grounds. Children worked in teams and discussed what they had found and learned about habitats and food chains. Our Eco week was a fabulous success with children reporting that they enjoyed the varied activities. Many thanks to the teachers who worked so hard to make the week such a success.

Our Eco activities have been very extensive this week with lots of work taking place around promoting biodiversity within our school and ensuring our pupils know more about their local environment. Please check out our picture gallery the shows our children in the outdoor classroom.

Our Eco warriors were busy at work yesterday creating a bug mansion for a wide array of creatures. It will no doubt become a great asset to the school as children will be able to explore and find out about the creatures we share our school grounds with every day. As you can see the activity had everyone involved and working together to create a fine bug mansion. Great work boys and girls!! Oh and we better not forget the teachers and parent helpers who came along to give a hand on the day.

St Augustine’s are looking forward to a 2 Day Event to Launch our Biodiversity work. Lots of fun activities are planned to help children with their learning.
Pupils will be learning how living things depend on each other and also how they can play their part in caring for nature.

Create a Habitat – P1-3 will be making a Wormery, this will help the children understand what job worms do and how important they are in a garden. P4-7 will be making a Bug Mansion which will attract beneficial insects and other creatures into our garden, helping our fruit, veg and flowers to grow.

Nature Trail – Children will do some orienteering here when they have to find and explore habitats on given photographs. P1-3 will mark their findings on a hunt sheet. P4-7 will mark their finding on a birds eye view map of our school.

Species Hunt – Children will use magnifying glasses, bug catchers and our school easi scope to explore living things. They will also be learning where these living things are on a food chain.

Gardening – Thanks to our parent helpers we hope to take our gardening to the next level, this year we are going to grow a wide variety of plants, fruit and vegetables. Children will enjoy weeding planting, digging and learning how to care for plants. We will soon have our very own greenhouse and garden shed all of which will help us on our Seed to Plate and Grow Your Own Journey.
Lots to look forward to!
Look out for photos of all activities this week.

Cogratulations to Mrs.Allison and the Global Citizens for the fantastic Movie Night in aid of our Lenten Charities. It raised the outstanding sum of £600. Marvellous!

Please look out for the school newsletter which will be issued at the beginning of the week. It has important information and features school news that informs you of the community life of the school.
This week it is ECO/HEALTH WEEK at St.Augustine’s. There is an action packed week of activities planned for all classes. We hope our children take home our strong Eco message to look after our environment.
Please continue to make the effort during Lent to attend daily Mass at 8.30am. It is great to see so many of our families and young people each morning.
Our after school clubs continue to go from strength to strength. Many thanks to all staff and parents who run these clubs for the benefit of our pupils.
Our Parent Council and P.T.A. will meet on Wednesday evening at 6.00pm. All welcome.
North Lanarkshire Learning Festival takes place on Thursday and Friday of this week with a special invitation extended to all parents to attend the Parent Conference on Thursday evening at Motherwell Civic.
Please encourage your children to start thinking about their egg design for the Egg Challenge (Pr.4 – 7) on Wednesday of next week. Prizes to be awarded for the winners in each class.

Thanks to Mrs.Allison and her Global Citizens the whole school enjoyed a Movie Night on Friday evening to raise money for charity. The school hall was packed with children dressed in onesies settling down for the evening to watch a movie with their friends. We look forward to pupil feedback to see how we could further improve this type of event for the future. Many thanks to the many parents who came along to help supervise on the night. Their support and help was much appreciated.

Well done to all the marvellous pupils who received the first of our Pupil of the Week Awards. Children were recognised for a variety of achievements across the curriculum and also for demonstrating kindness to others. Keep up the great work boys and girls!