Congratulations to all of our pupils who received this special sacrament this evening.  We know how hard they have been working in preparation for this and how well supported they have been by their families, our staff and St Margaret’s Parish.

 

Did you catch our P4/5 pupils and class on STV news today?

Following on from celebrating Renfrewshire’s HMIe Inspection progress report last week which was launched in our campus, some of the captured footage was used by STV today to discuss the Scottish curriculum.

As always, our pupils were a credit to our school community. Here are a few screenshots just in case you missed it:

Primary 4/5 had great fun today at woods, exploring, creating and creating descriptions of the forest to use in an upcoming piece of literacy. The children also learned about looking for hazards and being safe, in teams searching for hazards and marking these for their classmates, to ensure everyone’s safety.

The class thoroughly enjoyed making dens that their ‘potential’ characters could have lived in, and exploring what would be their characters home. Climbing, sliding, creating, being safe: all in a day’s work for our explorers.

Don’t forget tonight is our 3rd How Good is My Learning of the session. The event will be held in the Dining Hall tonight and we’re looking forward to seeing you.

Tonight our House Captains will be asking you to complete our Annual Parent Survey. Your views are really important to us and help us to identify our strengths and also what we need to work on.

You can access it at the link below:

We will also have iPads in the hall tonight and QR codes available if you would prefer to complete it on your own device. If you would prefer a paper copy or any help to complete this, please let us know and we’ll arrange it.

Well done to all our lucky Raffle winners today. There are still a few prizes to be collected:

Bowen Therapy Gift Voucher – Caitlin Ellis

Marshall’s Gift Voucher – Caitlin Ellis

£5 Peacocks Voucher – Patricia Torrance

£10 Peacocks Voucher – Vincent Torrance

McDonald’s Linwood Voucher – Ellie Gorman

Johnstone Print Centre Voucher – Ellie Gorman

Domino’s Pizza Voucher – Elizabeth McWilliams

Christmas Tea Hamper – Jakub Swistak

Luxury Hamper – Ryan Haigh

Please contact the school office to arrange collection of your prize. Once again thank you to everyone who supported the raffle and the school fayre today – this is an important fundraiser for our school community and your support is greatly appreciated.

A huge thank you also goes to all our raffle prize donors whose generosity and commitment to their local community sets a great example to us all.

Don’t forget to pop along to our Christmas Fayre this afternoon at 1.30pm.

We have lots of fun games, tombolas and activities with loads of prizes to be won. We also have our hand-crafted ornaments from each child in the school as well as tea, coffee, home-baking and hot dogs for sale.

We’ll end the day as always with our grand raffle – there is still plenty of time to buy a few more lucky tickets.

On Thursday 29th November, we will be hosting the second Sharing the Learning Day this session.

This time we are working with our partners in Adult Learning to share more about Family Learning and why this is so central to our school approach.

On the day you can expect familiar faces from school and the Pizza Club as well as lots of fun activities to get involved in. The event starts at 2pm until 5pm – you can drop in at any point and stay for as long as you like.

If you can make it along at 2pm, you can head along to collect your child from their classroom and go with them to the hall where the event is being hosted. If you can’t make it until after 3pm, don’t worry as there will be plenty of Scottish themed activities going on in the classes.

Click the picture below for more details:

We are looking forward to seeing you there – please feel free to add to the Scottish theme by wearing tartan on the day.

Book Week Scotland is almost coming to an end, but don’t forget to continue the fun at home before it ends on Sunday!

At St David’s we have had a fun filled week of activities, visitors and trips.

We would like to say a massive thank you to the following for coming along this week and helping us celebrate Book Week Scotland;

• Bryse, our lollipop man
• The Fire service
• Rosaleen & Alf at St Vincent de Paul
• Emma, Renfrewshire’s Primary outreach librarian
• Bookbug
• The community Police

We would also like to say a huge thank you to Starbucks Johnstone for allowing us to come down for Hot chocolate and a story to be read from your Manager, Graham. Primary 4/5 really enjoyed this experience and have been talking about it throughout the week.

Another thank you goes to Cochrane Care home, for having Primary 1 and our House and Vice Captains for a Bookbug session, that was led by Anne – Thank you, Anne!

Here is our feedback from throughout the week!

“I liked reading when the bell rang” – Caitlin P1

“I loved getting our present from BookBug”- Hope P1

“I Liked getting to meet the real BookBug” – Sophie P1

“I like singing all the songs when we went to the nursing home” – Calum P1

“My favourite part of the week was when the fire brigade came in and we got a picture with the fire engine” – Alfie P2

“I Liked having Bryse come in, he was funny, he taught us the alphabet backwards” – Eilidh P2

“I liked when the Big BookBug came in” – Sean P2

“I liked getting toast and biscuits the bedtime reading buddy” – Leo P2

“I wish we could wear pyjamas every day, I’ve loved it” – Zoey P2

“I liked getting to wear our pyjamas and getting to read books” – Hannah P3

“Its helped us to learn how to read” – Jakub P3

“I liked reading with our buddy and our teddies” – Lily-Anne P3

“I liked learning about Fiction and Non Fiction”- Stephen P3

“I liked reading under the blanket’s it was cosy and fun” – Josh P3

“I liked taking part in Book Week Scotland because we got to hear other people read, it was really nice” – Emma P4/5

“I liked having Emma (Outreach librarian) come in on Wednesday. I liked the books she read us and then  we voted for our favourite” – Libby P4/5

“My favourite part was going to Starbucks! We got hot chocolate and the manager, Graham read to us” – Riley P4/5

“I loved how people took time out to come to our school and support Book Week Scotland” – Sienna P4/5

“I liked when the bell rang every day and we just  stopped what we were doing and read for 15 minutes” – Mirren P6/7

“I enjoyed going along and listening to Mrs Mackenzie read Paddington” – Tia P6/7

“I loved going to the care home with Primary 1 and doing BookBug. Everyone was singing songs and joining in and a lady called Liz had said at the end Thank you so much for coming today and Merry Christmas” – Mya P6/7

“I loved singing with John from Primary 1”  – Kayla P6/7

“I’ve enjoyed doing bedtime stories with Primary 1 and 2” – Ryan P6/7

 

Thank you for a very successful Book Week Scotland, until next year!

Happy reading!

 

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Primary 4/5 celebrated day 2 of Scottish Book Week with a trip to the newly opened Starbucks in Johnstone! They were treated to hot chocolates and Graeme, the store manager, read them an excerpt from ‘Horrid Henry’s Author Visit’ by author Francesca Simon. As you can see from the photos, the children were delighted with their treat, and were very grateful to Graeme and his staff for accommodating them!

Stay tuned for more Book Week Scotland updates throughout the week!

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