Inchinnan Primary pupils were mentioned in Monday’s edition of the Paisley Daily Express this week!
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Podcast Club
The Podcast Club are pleased to introduce the first ever Inchinnan Primary Podcast!
On this months episode we discuss all things Inchinnan as well as Valentines Day. The gang will also be finding out ‘What’s in the Box!’ and also what Mrs McGlynn’s favourite pizza topping is. Mmm, sounds tasty right?
Tune in, relax and get ready for this extremely informative and funny podcast. We have worked really hard making this and hope you will enjoy listening!
A podcast is an episodic series of digital audio or video files which a user can download and listen to.
Fairtrade Coffee Event
The Fairtrade Committee had a real busy day preparing for the Fairtrade Coffee Afternoon on Thursday 8th March. The members of the committee spent a morning making cakes for the event.
We are excited to be making cakes!
Councillor Michelle Campbell came to Inchinnan Primary and gave the committee a helping hand on the day and it was a great success.
We made nearly 80 cakes
James and Kiara from the committee were welcoming the parents to our Coffee Afternoon!
This week is the start of our 90kg Rice Challenge Stall. Our committee have two weeks to sell 90 bags of rice. If we sell all the bags, the money raised sends a Malawian Child to High School for a year.
We sold 24 bags already at our coffee afternoon. What a great start!
A raffle to win Fairtrade Goodies was on sale at the coffee afternoon and over the next couple of days too. It will be drawn in a week.
It was a very busy afternoon.
Thank you to all who supported the school to raise awareness of Fairtrade and a big thank you also for the donations of home baking.
It is very much appreciated.
‘Singing to Learn, Learning to Sing’ Event
On Thursday 8th March, 15 of our Primary 5/6 pupils attended The Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow to represent Renfrewshire Schools at a ‘Big Sing’ event. The singing event was organised by the Music Education Partnership Group to launch a new resource that will be available to all Primary and Early Years Establishments through GLOW. The partnership group have been involved in developing A National Framework for Singing – Singing to Learn, Learning to Sing.
The launch took the form of a ‘Big Sing’ and was led by Christopher Bell. The children had to prepare 4 songs to sing on the day. They sang beautifully together and we were so proud to represent our Local Authority of Renfrewshire to promote this new resource.
Fairtrade Workshop
Four members of our committee spent the day with Rainbow Turtle in Paisley. They met two coffee producers from the Mzuzu Coffee Planters Co-operative.
They learned about the 10 principles of Fairtrade, completed tasks with other children from other school, learned about Malawi and deepened their knowledge of Fairtrade and how it can promote human values.
An interesting fact of the day – The coffee plant that grows in Malawi originated from The Royal Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
Making Maths Count
This week our Cluster Mathematics and Numeracy Teacher Mrs. Smith led a parental engagement workshop on the Government Initiative ‘Making Maths Count’. She demonstrated ‘Thinking Boards’ and problem solving strategies to parents and guardians, talking through examples of how to complete written calculations.
She spoke about the importance of Mathematical and Numeracy vocabulary as well as involving parents in games to promote this.
The event ended with the launch of our new Parent Prompt Books.
Active Schools – Basketball (Athlete Visit)
The children who attend the Afterschool Basketball Club received a special guest visit in the form of Team Scotland, Glasgow Rocks and BasketballPaisley athlete Chris Cleary on Wednesday 7th February. Chris delivered top quality coaching and challenged the children to work on their dribbling, passing and shooting skills at an action-packed session. The children had a fantastic time, working hard and displaying some great skills.
Chris also hosted a ‘Question and Answer’ session of which he talked of his journey as a local athlete through to Commonwealth 2018 athlete. Questions included “How tall are you?”, “Can you slam dunk it?” to “Who was your idol growing up?”. Chris obliged in answering, as well as inspiring the children to ‘be the best that you can be’ through effort, always learning and accepting that mistakes happen.
February 2018 Update
At today’s meeting the group looked at a Powerpoint which explained about the upcoming Malawi Farmers 90kg Rice Challenge which will begin in the school on the 5th March during Fairtrade Fortnight. We discussed promotion, recipes, ideas and allocated jobs to ensure it will be a success. A letter / leaflet will be designed by the younger members and given out to pupils detailing information about the Rice Challenge and our upcoming Coffee Afternoon which will take place on Thursday 8th March at 1.45p.m.
In addition, Renfrewshire has been most fortunate this year in that two coffee producers from Malawi are in Scotland for a short visit. Three members of our team have been invited to the Rainbow Turtle Fairtrade Event in Paisley on 5th March to meet the producers and learn more about the part we play in Fairtrade.
February 2018
We undertook a travel survey of our local area and counted the number of cars, bikes, buses and pedestrians. We found that cars are by far the most popular method of travel, followed by pedestrians.
Litter and waste have organised and are due to announce their new inter-class recycling challenge. Pupils will be asked as a class to start recycling paper and plastic. The winning class will receive a very special award!
