Today was a pretty action packed day as the children enjoyed a mini olympics in the school hall and some classes had visits from Boots Pharmacy.
Pr. 1 Visit St.Augustine’s Church
Many thanks to Father Kane and Sister Eileen for their time and patience on Friday as they took the Pr.1 children on a walk around the church and discussed all the features of the church, visited the sacristy, learned all about the different vestments and said a few prayers.
The Week Ahead
This week is Health Week with a packed timetable for the whole school. All of the timetabled slots for P.E. have been filled with visiting specialists who will be delivering taster sessions such as Tae Kwon Do and basketball. Vikki Sadler our active sports co-ordinator will be running a mini olympics for our Pr.1 – 3 pupils. Visiting specialists will work with a variety of classes across the school and include Scotmid, Specsavers, Heartstart training, Dogs Trust, Action for Safe Play, NL I Can Cook. Pupils from St.Ambrose will also be supporting and leading some of this weeks activities. Many of our visitors will start the beginning of our focus on Heartstart across the school and the development of our Focus on Food programme. Please remind children to bring their P.E kit to school everyday. Many thanks to Miss Ross for her great work in organising such a packed week of activities and learning opportunities.
| Monday | Mr. O’Dowd – paternity leave, Mr.Clarke to cover class
Monitoring programme to continue – Mrs.Docherty and Mrs.Elliott Staff Meeting – VSadler to introduce herself PFFA – Parish Liaison – 7 – 9.00pm |
| Tuesday | Monitoring programme to continue – Mrs.Docherty and Mrs.Elliott
CROSS COUNTRY |
| Wednesday | Visit by Moira Cummings – HMI Inspector – 10.00am.
Monitoring programme to continue – Mrs.Docherty and Mrs.Elliott Lynsey – St.Andrew’s Hospice – workshops – Pr.4 – 7 NETBALL – Afterschool club |
| Thursday | Monitoring programme to continue – Mrs.Docherty and Mrs.Elliott
Miss Watt and Mrs Thomson – Supporting Children with Literacy Difficulties – Pr.4 – 7 Mrs.Docherty – Meeting – Speech and Language Therapists – Scottish Attainment Challenge – 1.30pm Developing Young Workforce – Session 2 – Townhead Community Centre – Mrs.Docherty – 3.45- 5.15pm BADMINTON afterschool club |
| Friday | Mrs.Elliott – out all day – ADHD training
First Friday Mass – Pr.1 Welcome Mass Tea in school afterwards for Pr.1 parents BASKETBALL |
Lunch Menu
Business Partnership Signing
On Friday the St.Andrew’s Hospice committee members signed a business partnership with St.Andrew’s Hospice. Lysney Morrison from the Hospice was there to look over the proceedings and to discuss with members how they could work together in the coming months.
Friday Assembly
Our Friday assembly updated the school community in regard of the variety of activities that the school community have been involved with since the start of term. Our Pupil Voice Groups gave an update in regard of their plans for the months ahead with the new Chairperson and Vice Chairperson of each committee addressing the assembly. Lynsey Morrison from St.Andrew’s Hospice spoke to the school about the work of the Hospice and congratulated the school for raising over £16,400 over the past years. Quite an astonishing sum of money. This was the first assembly presented by our new group of Captains and Vice Captains and this did a fantastic job. Very polished and professional indeed. Well done to everyone!
Macmillan Tea and Coffee Morning
Congratulations to Mrs. Allison’s wonderful group of Pr.7 pupils who lead, organised and managed a very successful morning. The children did a wonderful job of presenting a powerpoint about the role of Macmillan nurses and also presented a very entertaining sketch that gave our talented pupils an opportunity to show off their drama skills. The variety of cakes on display was a great testament to the very talented bakers we have at St.Augustine’s. Mary Berry eat your heart out! The morning raised the astonishing sum of £510.67. A huge big thank you to everyone for your support on the day and for the mouthwatering cakes.
Macmillan Tea and Coffee Morning
The school plays host to a coffee/tea morning on Friday at 10 o’clock. One of our Pr.7 classes have taken on the responsibility of organising this event and are even planning to do some baking. Donations of cakes on the day would be greatly appreciated. Our young musicians have gladly accepted a booking to perform whilst you have your tea/coffee and cake. We hope you can join us.
Woodlands Workout
Today primary 1/2 had lots of fun in the garden doing a Woodlands Workout.
We started by warming up our bodies with lots of games relating to bugs and the outdoors. We then got to work using our checklists and clipboards to investigate our very own school Bug Hotel. We saw several bugs, such as; flies, woodlice, spiders, snails and wasps to name a few. Our bugs are enjoying living in their hotel.
We then investigated the woodland area for signs of Autumn, our sticky strips collected, leaves, bark, feathers etc. there are lots of signs already!
After that we used our plastic cups to make Yucky Cocktails with mud and leaves and other items from the garden, we mixed it all up with our sticks. it was very messy!
A very exciting morning outside in the garden.
Wednesday Award Winners
