St Kevin's Primary and Nursery

The children in Primary 4/5 have been busy at work this week designing Christmas cards for MSP Fulton MacGregor and his Coatbridge and Chyston constituency.  They have been looking at landmarks in and around the Coatbridge and Chryston areas and have also considered other religions and cultures within their themed cards.

Primary 5/6 have enjoyed actively learning about time . We have been using ICT games to help develop  skills to enable us to successfully tell the time using  the 12 and 24 hour clock . Primary 5 worked with their shoulder partner to practise telling the time to the nearest minute while Primary 6 were using their knowledge of time to calculate time intervals.

As part of our Advent preparation we have been learning about acts of kindness. We reflected on our own lives and wrote an advent promise which we displayed on our class altar .

Hello from Primary 6/7

This week we have set up and began to collect food and toiletries for our community food bank. As it is the season of Advent which is a time for giving and charity, the children who are working towards their Pope Francis Faith Award have set up this food bank. Each day the children will go around the classes collecting any kind donations. All donations big and small are welcomed, we understand it is an expensive time of year but as they say, every little helps! Many thanks to the parents who have already contributed!

Some of the food we have already collected this week!

The food and other items we are looking for are jarred and tinned foods, adult toiletries, baby items, long life milk etc.

This week we have began to look at Scots poets. We have started to learn about the poet, Charles Murray who wrote the famous poem, ‘The Whistle’ in scots language.

We worked with a partner to read he poem and pick out the words or phrases we weren’t sure of, we then used a Scots language dictionary to find out the meanings of these words and translate the poem.

We have been going full steam ahead, preparing for our school show as we know dress rehearsal is looming. The children have been working very hard and it’s looking great, I’m sure all you parents will agree when you see it for yourselves!

Miss Jackson and Primary 6/7

This week our Primary Three artists took part in their last lesson about The Scottish Colourists.

The focus this week was on Portraiture, and we enjoyed exploring and discussing the features of portraits made by each artist. We then decided to create our own using paint, of the person who sits across from us. We had a great time mixing the paint to create different colours and enjoyed experimenting with thick and thin brush strokes, just like The Scottish Colourists did.
We were particularly inspired by J.D. Fergusson, and decided to copy his style of colourful patterned backgrounds.

We finished off our week today by taking part in a local Christmas Card Competition. We decided that we wanted our cards to reach out to everyone who lives in the area, and so we looked up how to say Merry Christmas in 15 languages!

We are definitely beginning to feel very festive and can’t wait to see what other Christmas activities are in store for us!

Miss McFadyen and Primary Three

Primary 5/6 enjoyed welcoming Mrs Miller from the Scottish Parliament to St Kevins . We thoroughly enjoyed sharing our knowledge while taking part in a very interactive workshop . The session involved us using interactive clicker pads which were great fun to use.

We enjoyed taking part in a mock election . Each group had to elect a leader and create an exciting manifesto to share . After listening to each party leaders election promises everyone had to decide who they would like to vote for by completing an official ballot paper . The atmosphere was very tense while we were waiting for the election results and there was lots of cheering when the winning team was announced .

My favourite part of the afternoon was taking part in the debate on the motion ‘ Should the school week be over four days ‘ Sophie P6

‘I really enjoyed being part of the Animal Welfare party during the mock election ‘ Leah P6

Wednesday was St Andrews day celebrations and great fun was had by all !

We all enjoyed country dancing , playing with playground games from the past such as a whip and peerie and peever . We had some Irn Bru and shortbread too .

In  the afternoon we used our creative skills to design some wonderful kilts and finished off our very successful day with a beautiful whole school prayer service .

Hello from Primary 6/7

This week has been jam packed with fun activities and workshops, we have all had a great week!

On Wednesday, we celebrated St Andrew’s day as a school with lots of fun sponsored activities. We took part in traditional Scottish dancing, food tasting (some yummy shortbread and tablet), we created an acrostic poem, we designed our own tartan and made traditional Scottish kilts and we also took part in a quiz about our patron saint. We ended the day with a beautiful service. We all had a fantastic day as you can see.

On Thursday a representative visited us from Scottish Parliament where we learned about Scottish politics and the role of the parliament in our country. It was a very engaging and interactive workshop where the pupils played the role of candidates in an election and took part in an election campaign as well as debating on whether a bill should be passed and working cooperatively in our parties. It was great fun and most pupils were raving about this when we left our workshop! Many thanks to Mrs Martin who visited us from the Scottish Parliament outreach programme!

It is the run up to Christmas and we have been busy preparing for our school show. This time is always incredibly busy in St Kevins so we hope everyone has an enjoyable and relaxing weekend.

Miss Jackson and Primary 6/7

The pupils in Primary 4/5 have thoroughly enjoyed their schools St. Andrew’s celebrations.  They enjoyed our food tasting activity and particularly showed skill in Scottish dancing.