St. Lucy's Primary, LCSC and Nursery Class

One of the winning entries – Meiling Hunter P7

Some more creative entries.

St Lucy’s celebrated Halloween in style this year! Our wonderful nursery and infant pupils put on a fantastic Halloween Parade – the costumes this year were the best yet!! Our senior pupils raised the bar this year with their ‘design a vegetable’ competition entries…well done to all those who entered.  As if all that wasn’t enough the week was rounded of with our Halloween Disco organised by our wonderful Parent Council! Thanks to everyone who helped make this years’ celebrations spookily splendid!!!

The children and staff from St. Lucy’s Gardening Club took part in a sponsored walk on Sunday 29th October to help raise funds for a new greenhouse.  We all met at the church and our walk took us to the Glen, through Cumbernauld House and then back to the church where everyone enjoyed a much needed drink, cup of tea and biscuits.  Some of us decided to try out our Halloween costumes.  A fun day was had by all.  So far we have raised over £800 with lots more still to be added to the total – watch this space for a final total!!

This morning we held a charity coffee morning in aid of MacMillan cancer charity.  Children baked or bought cakes to sell to Parents and Grandparents who were invited along to our school hall.  The children in Primary 7 helped out by serving the hot drinks and selling the baked goods.  Fun was had by all and we raised over £200.  The children also got to eat any cakes that were leftover which made the day even more fun!

Our annual celebration of Scots poetry was celebrated on 27th January this year to comemorate the birth of Robert Burns, the famous Scottish poet.  As always, the children practised very hard to learn a Scottish poem.  Then the infant and nursery classes sang a Scottish song, some other classes recited their poem as a whole class and finally, from P.3 to P.7 three children from each class were chosen to recite their poem on Stage in front of the Judges who chose a winner from each class.  Everyone also participated in an Art competition, illustrating their class’s poem.  Again a winner was chosen from each class.  All of the winners and runners up were awarded a certificate during our Monday morning assembly.  In addition, the children were allowed to come to school wearing blue or tartan.  We thoroughly enjoyed our day and especially the irn bru and shortbread!

On Friday 27th January we celebrated our achievements through the “Pride of St. Lucy’s” Awards.  During the course of the year the children work hard to follow the 3R’s – Respect for yourself, Respect for others and Responsibility for your actions to earn Pride of St. Lucy’s stickers for their chart.  At the end of each term these are counted and the child or children who have earned the most stickers is awarded a medal at our special assembly.  Parents of these children are also invited to celebrate this special achievement and also enjoy a celebratory cup of tea and biscuits with their children afterwards.   Well done to all our winners!

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.