St. Lucy's Primary, LCSC and Nursery Class

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.

In Literacy the children have been studying diary extracts and producing their own diary entries. They have been reading “The Railway Children” and “The Last Wolf.” In Numeracy the children have been introduced to the new concept of algebra. P5 are learning about how your eye works, in particular how the optic nerve works and enjoying investigating optical illusions.

The pupils of P7 have been thinking about alternative energy. They learned about how windturbines work and produce energy. The children are learning about the difference between renewable energy such as solar, wind and hydro powered enery and non-renewable energy such as coal, nuclear energy and fossil fuels. The class visited CMS Windows Factory to learn more about energy and the materials used in windows.