St Kevin's Primary and Nursery

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The pupils in Primary 4/5 thoroughly enjoyed their trip to Glasgow’s Transport museum.  They visited the Tall Ship and took part in an education workshop as part of their ‘Titanic’ topic.    They experienced life working on a ship and also had the opportunity to look at artifacts from the Titanic.

Hello from Primary 6/7,

Happy St Patrick’s Day! sona Lá Fhéile Pádraig!

This week the children have been learning about healthy eating and have been working in cooperative learning groups to create posters on he Eatwell Guide. We understand that a healthy diet consists of certain qualities of each food group; fruit and vegetables, proteins, dairy, oils and carbohydrates. They will then be presenting these back to their peers practicing their talking and listening skills.

Miss Jackson and Primary 6/7

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This week Primary 5/6 enjoyed presenting our group findings about healthy eating to the rest of the class . Each group member took responsibility for different parts of the presentation . At the  end of each talk we discussed what each group did well and suggested ways we could further improve our presentation skills .

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This week in Primary Three our amazing artists put all of their work from our artist study of Georgia O’Keeffe together for a wonderful wall display.

They cut out their oil pastel leaves with jagged scissors to create a textured look, and placed them underneath their painted flowers.

As you can see we have created a beautiful garden that we think Georgia O’Keeffe herself would be proud of!

We also had a birthday celebration for a lovely classmate who was kind enough to bring in a giant cake for us all to share! There was even enough left for all the teachers to enjoy!

We finished our week today with some St. Patrick’s Day fun.

We learned all about who St. Patrick was and why he is the patron saint of Ireland. We also looked at some St. Patrick’s Day traditions from around the world, and finished up by creating our own leprechaun masks!

What a creative week we have had!

Miss McFadyen and Primary Three

Hello from Primary two

This week the children have had lots of fun working alongside our Active Play Coordinators exploring circuit activities and jumping games.

Hello from Primary 6/7,

This week has been a very literacy orientated week in P6/7. we have been introduced to our new novels: Jammy Dodgers on the Run, The Wings of Ruksh and Matilda. We have enjoyed starting to read our new novels and carrying out work using our comprehension strategies.

We also met the school librarian from St Ambrose who paid us a visit to talk about the reading scheme they have implemented in the high school and how closely the English department work with the library to encourage all children to be avid readers. It was very interesting and she was able to show us a range of texts that will be available to read including interesting fiction stories to graphic novels.

To carry on our literacy theme, on Tuesday, we were lucky enough to be visited by a successful author, Matt Oldfield. He came in to talk to us about his recent publications and the children had an opportunity to ask a variety of questions such as;

What inspired you to become an author?

How long does it take you to write a book?

Does your love of football help you in writing your books?

What is your favourite author and book?

The children (especially the boys) also enjoyed quizzing Matt on his knowledge of football. The children could see they were a fantastic set of books and ones in which they were very keen to read.

This week our Primary 7 children have been finalising some of the work within their Pope Francis Faith Award journal. The children have all worked very hard and the P7 children can almost see the finish line in sight. It is a fantastic award to achieve on their transition to high school.

Miss Jackson and Primary 6/7

Primary 5/6 have enjoyed a very busy week . As part of our numeracy lessons we have  enjoyed using a variety of active maths games to reinforce  our understanding of fractions and decimals .

We have started learning about the properties of different types of 2D shapes . We can now successfully discuss circles using vocabulary such as radius , circumference and diameter .

We thoroughly enjoyed practising our Spanish speaking skills while learning about animals with Daniel this week .

Next week Primary 5 will begin our swimming and dry sports block at Time Capsule . All children will need to remember to bring swimwear , a towel and goggles if required. £1 is also required to use the lockers at the sports centre .

The pupils in Primary 4/5 have been continuing their topic of ‘The Water Cycle ‘ this week.  This week they have been looking at lots of different things including ‘herbivores, carnivores and omnivores’ and ‘producers, consumers and decomposers’. They have been discussing the processes involved, reinforcing their knowledge of The Water Cycle, whereby the process is ongoing.  Additionally, they have been working together in pairs investigating different animals and what they eat using the iPads.

What a busy time we have had in Primary Three this week!

Our week started off with a super surprise – we found out that author Matt Oldfield had read our letters and was so impressed that he wanted to come in and meet us!

We had a fantastic morning with Matt where he answered all of our questions, read some chapters from his books and even signed our copies! We are so grateful that he took the time to come in and spend time with us.

We also continued on with our Plants in Animals topic through the subject of Art. We have begun an artist study on Georgia O’Keeffe, who we know is the most successful female still life painter. We enjoyed looking at and discussing her flower work, and were amazed to learn that she didn’t even like flowers! We were so inspired that we decided to paint our own flowers – focusing on the different shapes and colours we could see when looking at them close up.

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As you can see we had fantastic results! We can’t wait to add these flowers to our wall display which will feature other works inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe.

Thursday night was a very special occasion for some of our classmates. It was their Reconciliation where they received their second sacrament. All of the children present did an outstanding job, and all of their classmates are so proud of them. We had a party this afternoon to celebrate!

We can’t wait to see what next week has in store for us!

Miss McFadyen and Primary Three