St. Lucy's Primary, LCSC and Nursery Class

Visitors to our school may have noticed that number snakes, letter caterpillars and many more activities and games have been painted in our playgrounds.  Thanks to the Parent Council we now have lots of fun games to play at playtime and our teachers can also use these to provide outdoor learning opportunities.  Doesn’t our playground look great?

During the first term, a team of volunteers from Cummings, a local business, came in to help us tidy up our school garden.  They cleaned up the fish pond, did lots of weeding repotted our plants and and planted lots of bulbs, including fruit and vegetables.  We can’t wait to use our garden now, and are especially looking forward to having our packed lunches out there when the better weather comes.  We might even be able to sample some of our produce!

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From Primary 4 we now use a card system to pay for our lunch as the school lunches are now “cash-fee”.  We top-up our cards using the machine in the dining room or our parents can do it online.  It took a bit of getting used to but we enjoy using the machine and it works well at lunch time reducing the queues.

– Kiera, Curtis, Jamie, Jason and Luke (Website Committee members)

On Friday 7th October we held a coffee morning in our school hall in aid of the McMillan Cancer Charity which was organised by our Charity committee.  Parents, Grandparent and members of our local community were all invited along to enjoys cakes and a cuppa.  £616.72 was raised at the coffee morning through donations, a raffle, cake auction and cake and candy for pupil afterwards.  This was more than double what we raised last year.  Thank you for your hard work in baking such wonderful cakes and for coming along to enjoy them.

On Mondays the children in P.6 attended a training course at lunchtime.  Stuart, the active schools co-ordinator came in to teach us playground games in the gym hall.  We are now using what we learned to teach the P.1’s and 2’s in the playground.  The P.6’s have improved their leadership skills and the younger pupil have learned lots of new running, chasing and action games which they thoroughly enjoy.  “Poison”, “Shark Attack”, “Queenie” and “Freeze Dodge” are some of our favourites.

On Sunday 22nd May, ten of our Primary 4’s made their First Holy Communion.  Mass was celebrated at St. Lucy’s Parish Church by Father Campbell.  On the 5th June,  some of the other children will also receive the sacrament of Communion.  The children have worked very hard in class to prepare for this very special occasion.

The pupils of P6 have been designing ballot booths in their co-operative learning groups. They examined real ballot booths. They used metre sticks to measure them which helped design their own drawings. The pupils are going to use cardboard boxes to make a correctly scaled booth of their own.