This week began Fairtrade Fortnight. Our Fairtrade Focus Group will be selling Fairtrade bananas all week. They cost 30p and all proceeds will go to SCIAF.
Dates to Remember
Just a wee reminder of dates that are coming up over the next month:
- Wednesday, 8th March – Meeting for Parents/Carers of children making their First Holy Communion. St Michael’s School at 6.30 pm.
- Wednesday, 15th March – Information meeting and arrangements for Parents/Carers about Kilbowie and York. The meetings will be help in separate rooms. St Michael’s School at 6.30 pm.
- Tuesday, 21st and 28th March – Sacrament of First Reconciliation, in St Michael’s Church at 6.00 pm.
- Friday, 24th March – Mother’s Day coffee Morning
- Thursday 30th March – Parent’s Evening . Please ensure you have responded to the email asking your preferred slot. Appointment times will be given out in the near future.
Scottish Wars of Independence Art Day
Primary 4/3 enjoyed a full day of artwork for their Interdisciplinary topic on the Wars of Independence!
All the children had a choice of making a sword, castle or shield! It was a fabulous day where
children could use any paints, colours, and materials they wished.
Wallace and Bruce
As part of our ‘Wallace and Bruce’ topic, Primary 4 and Primary 4/3 have been learning why castles were so important back in the 13th century.
We became very interested in castles and researched and discussed the different parts.
We designed our own castles last week, and this week we made our designs a reality with cereal boxes and cardboard tubes.
We had a fantastic time, and enjoyed helping one another to complete them.
Super stars.
Our super stars this week for kindness and super learning. Well done.
World Book Day
Today was World Book Day and we were thinking of our favourite books and authors. Michael Morpurgo is an author who excites and inspires is to read more. We are very lucky to have lots of his novels in school and we have the opportunity to read them as part of our learning,
Primary 2 Romans
Primary 2 learned about the different people they could have been and jobs they could have had in the Roman Empire!
Nursery football
We had super fun at football training this morning with Clyde FC. We were learning to follow directions and control a football. We were super strikers and scored some great goals.
Primary 3/2
We are building the Antonine Wall which had a stone base and was finished off with turf. Watch this space for the finished product.
Primary 5 Science Investigation
Primary 5 have been investigating water hardness and softness. We found that we have soft water in our taps, the water has between 0mg/L CaCO3 and 50mg/L of CaCO3.
We also investigated the Mpemba Effect. Our results have shown that in most cases the cold water froze faster than the warm water.
However one result showed that the warm water froze faster, this is because of a variation in liquid amounts.
We concluded that in science experiments you can get lots of different results, our predictions are not always correct. Mpemba noticed in 1963 that warm water froze faster than cold water, however many scientists argue with this conclusion. The question whether warm water or cold water freezes first is still being debated today.
