Our budding authors from P4 and P7 met earlier this week to share the novels they wrote during Literacy Week. They got to read each others stories, ask questions about characters and plots and then peer assessed each others work. Wonderful discussions took place and our visiting inspectors commented on the quality and quantity of our writing. Well done boys and girls.
Category Archives: Whole School
STEM in P7 – Marble Run
Primary 7 have been learning about kinetic energy and gravity and have been designing their own marble runs with the hope we can make a marble run for 30 seconds. As you will see from the attached pictures we have some very creative individuals. Apparently the sparkles are to slow the marble down but i’m not convinced ! We will let you know our findings.
STEM in P6/7 – Dancing Raisins
Primary 6/7 was a hive of activity today when the children carried out an experiment on carbon dioxide. We made predictions on what we thought would happen and learned how carbon dioxide makes raisins dance!
Daffodil Tea
Our annual Daffodil Tea in aid of Marie Curie will take place tomorrow (Tues.) at 10.30am. The Easter Bonnet parade that involves Pr.1 – 3 pupils will take place at 11.15am. We look forward to welcoming parents and grandparents.
Collated Returns from Parents
As highlighted in a previous post all parents were consulted in regard of the running of the school and priorities for next session. Many thanks for your very positive comments and action points for the school to address for next session. Below is the link to the collated responses.
Lunch Menu
What’s on This Week?
This week we welcome HM Inspectors to our wonderful school. We are confident they will be impressed with our success learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens and effective contributors. Our children are proud of their school and it’s achievements and will be more than happy to share this news and their views with the inspection team as they go around the school this week visiting classes and meeting everyone.
| Monday | Mrs. Docherty and Mrs. Elliott to present to HMI 9.00am. Class visits planned to commence 10.30
Forces talk to Pr. 6 classes lead by pilot Mr. Hardsquare from United Arab Emirates – pm. |
| Tuesday | DAFFODIL TEA – 10.30am. Parents invited. All donations and proceeds from the raffle will go to Marie Curie. Marie Curie representative will be present to accept cheque. This event is lead by our Pr. 7 pupils
Pr. 1 – 3 Easter Bonnet Parade and also sharing of books made during Literacy Week – 11.15am. Mr. O’Dowd to return to work from paternity leave. |
| Wednesday | End of Term Mass – 10am
EGG DECORATING Competition – Pr. 4 – 7. Pupils to work on decorating their egg(s) in the morning. Judging and results in the afternoon. |
| Thursday | End of Term Good to be Green Treat – School hall will be set up with inflatable assault course as end of term treat. Many thanks to our great PTA who kindly agreed to pay for this treat
School closes at 2.30pm |
| Friday | Good Friday
SCHOOL CLOSED |
Parents Evening
Many thanks to everyone who came along to our Parents evening last week. We hope you left feeling well informed about your child/children’s progress in learning and their application to work. A huge thank you for your contribution to our ongoing school improvement with the completion and return of our school questionnaires. Our pupils have also been busy over the last few weeks completing questionnaires and surveys to help us identify school priorities for next session. Mrs.Elliott has collated all responses and will publish the outcome of our survey. Many thanks to everyone for your very positive feedback and kind words that acknowledged the great work taking place in the school and also for taking the time to identify what we could do better to further improve our school.
Please note that Mr.O’Dowd will carry out his Parents evening when we return after the spring break.
Raising Awareness for Down’s Syndrome
Primary 7 were learning about Down’s syndrome this week and decided to wear odd socks to raise awareness around our school community. Well done boys and girls!
P7 Author Visit at Coatbridge Library
Primary 7 went to Coatbridge Library today to meet the author Alex Nye.
Alex is a teacher and also a previous winner of the Scottish Children’s Book Award and during this session shared her own stories to inspire our class in their own writing.
