The joiners are currently replacing the wood in our garden benches ready to use after the Easter holidays when the sun is shining.
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Cycle Friendly Primary School Award
The school has currently registered for the Cycle Friendly School Award from Cycling Scotland to work towards becoming Cycle Friendly. Cycling Scotland is a recognised Scottish Charity.
Renfrewshire Council Bikeability Coordinator meets with schools to carry out the award assessments. They assess our cycle facilities and discuss what we are currently doing to encourage cycling as well as helping us to further embed cycling in our school.
Bikeability Scotland is organised and delivered at our school by trained instructors. It can support the culture, ethos and environment of our school contributing to active travel and the independence, confidence and health of our pupils.
It also promotes active lifestyle and active and sustainable travel choices, as part of the Eco-Schools initiative.
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Volunteers required….
Bikeability.scot are looking for parents, grandparents and other adult volunteers to help deliver cycle training in schools. Volunteers will work with our school staff to deliver Bikeability Scotland level 2 – a modern version of the cycle proficiency course.
The training is great fun and very rewarding.
How?
To volunteer, you’ll attend Cycling Scotland’s one day training course. This course if SCQF-accredited, with one point at level 5 awarded to all successful participants. The course is free! After that, you’ll deliver training to pupils for approximately one hour each week for 6 – 8 weeks.
Click the link below for more details or contact school for a flyer.
Health Committee Update 18-19
Health Committee led by Fraser Buchan, Active School’s Coordinator.
During February’s meeting the Health Committee agreed to run a ‘Highland Games’ event. It will be a whole school event on Thursday 9th May 2019. A timetable of activities such as Javelin, Shot Putt, Archery and Tug of War will be made up.
A quiz will also be issued that week to all the classes with House Points awarded.
School Grounds Committee 18-19
The School Grounds Citizenship group this year is led by Mrs Hamill.
So far they have looked at ways of making our playground brighter.
Their first project was to paint old tyres and then put in some plants for crazy hair! We hope to make the area outside the infant entrance brighter.
Library Committee Update
At our last committee meeting we talked about our plans for World Book Week and organising the author Shirley Husband to visit our school.
The Book Week was a great success. Shirley Husband came and the whole school enjoyed a storytelling session about the McCoo! She picked the winners for our Art Competition too. It was a very busy week and the committee worked hard along with Mrs Johnstone to ensure all the children had fun as well as stories for pleasure!
The children took part in quizzes, art competitions, sharing a story session as well as dressing up as their favourite character.
Water and Energy 18-19
The Water and Energy Committee Staff lead this year is Mr. Montgomery.
At our February monthly meeting our group started preparations for our Assembly Presentation.
Litter and Waste Committee 18-19
Litter and Waste Committee have been busy this term. They organised a whole school Litter Pick of our local community. Schools and community groups play a vital role in keeping our towns, villages and countryside clean and tidy.
The Committee staff lead is Rev. Ann Knox.
Renfrewshire Community Clean Up provided the school with
*waste bags
*litter pickers
*high vis vests
- gloves
They even removed all the litter after it had been collected.
All our pupils were responsible citizens and took an active part in helping our local environment. Well done everyone!
Our Assembly for that week focused on Spring Clean and the children learned about the damage and consequence of litter dropping in our country. They watched story video clips as well as poems about litter.
Digital Leaders Action Plan 2018 -2019
Here is the Digital Leaders Action Plan for this term.
The committee have been discussing what they what to achieve this year.
Digital Leaders Genius Bar
Our Digital Leaders Committee have been very busy providing a 1 -1 training session with our younger members of our school. During Friday lunch times they have a drop in clinic for pupils to attend and develop their ICT skills using the IPADs. They are doing a great job.
Apple Store Visit
The committee visited the Apple Store at Braehead for some training on Monday 18th March. The children had a fantastic experience learning about new Apps as well as some of the functions of the IPAD. Our trainers Marta and Ryan were very impressed with our children
