St Kevin's Primary and Nursery

Hello from Primary two

The children of Primary two really enjoyed their recent visit to Stirling Castle. They explored the Regional Museum, Great Hall, Chapel Royal, and the Castle Kitchens.

A great day was had by all.

We would also like to thank the parent helpers who came along.

Our Igloo was finally completed after many, many hours of work by the staff especially Miss Fallon. Unfortunately, we perhaps did not think about the scale of the build and the igloo collapsed. We would like to thank everyone for the contributions of the milk cartons and next time perhaps we should build something a little smaller! All of the milk cartons are being recycled. We have kept a few back and we are hoping to arrange a visit to Viridor to have these recycled too.

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This week our Primary Three athletes have enjoyed further developing their hockey skills.

We have been learning how to use what we have learned in previous weeks to play mini hockey games. As you can see we have all become very good at controlling and moving the ball with our sticks, and are becoming more confident in passing, tackling and defending.

We are also learning the importance of being team players, and know that it’s more important to try our best than to win every game.

In our topic lessons, this week we focused on animal habitats and classification.

We started by looking at where animals live and what kind of weather they need to survive. We then took part in a fun matching activity where we had to match the animals to their habitat.

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We finished the week by exploring animal classification, and learned about the differences and similarities between mammals, birds, amphibians, fish, reptiles and insects.

We are looking forward to moving on to food chains next week.

Miss McFadyen and Primary Three

We were very lucky this week to begin a block of hockey skills training with some young sports leaders from St Ambrose High School . Over the next six weeks we will continue to develop a variety of different hockey skills while having fun at the same time !

This week the focus was on holding the hockey stick correctly and using it to successfully push the ball to a partner . We all had a very enjoyable morning.

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During numeracy lessons this week the focus of our number talks was on addition and subtraction . We looked at lots of different ways we could achieve a successful answer . We are all becoming very confident explaining our workings to the rest of our peers .

Hello from Primary 6/7

This week we started a new topic in maths, measure. We have been learning how to convert simple units of measure and we are getting much more confident with it.

Within language we have been carrying out a non-fiction block where we have been using non-fiction books to carry out the different comprehension strategies and create pieces of non-fiction texts of our own. We have linked this to our topic and have been using books about Planet Earth to do this. We have so far learned about volcanoes and natural disasters, animal habitats, tectonic plates, food webs and evolution. We have enjoyed using different forms of media including books, Internet and videos to give us this information.

We have been entered into an art competition. This competition asks us to design a poster for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival which is the largest arts festival in the world. This is a celebration of all of the arts and our posters have to envisage this. We have enjoyed using the design brief to come up with our own ideas and here are some of the works in progress from our talented artists.

Throughout this school year we have been carrying out work in the hopes of being awarded our Pope Francis Faith Award. For our Primary 7s this journey is coming towards the end and all work will be submitted to the diocese at the end of May. The children have been working hard and many have been playing a part within their church community in order to receive their parish commendation.

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend

Miss Jackson and Primary 6/7

Primary 4/5 would like to welcome our new pupil to our class.

The boys and girls have been enjoying hockey with Uddingston hockey coaches.  They have been learning lots of skills and rules within game-like situations.  They have become quite competitive and are working very well within a team.