Wow St. Fergus Pupil Council are super impressed with our current total on our Strava app for our virtual Pilgrimage to Rome. It has almost doubled in less than a week and we have had more St. Fergus families join! We are now at 746.4KM!!!!! What a great total to be at so far!! Well done everyone! We now have 1,223.6KM left to go. Do you think we will make it before the end of Lent?
Thankyou to all our families for your participation. If you haven’t joined yet there is information on our School website on how to join and you can download a Sponsorship form via our School Website or from the School office.
The St. Fergus Pupil Council are very impressed with our current total on our Strava app for our virtual Pilgrimage to Rome. We are now at 394.56KM!!!!! What a great total to be at so far!! Well done everyone! Thankyou for your participation. If you haven’t joined yet there is information on our School website on how to join and you can download a Sponsorship form via our School Website or from the School office.
Thank-you and well done to everyone who has signed up to the Strava app to help with our Sponsored Virtual Pilgrimage to Rome! So far we have covered 62.54km of the journey since Friday! This is a great effort well done everyone! It is not to late to sign up you can join at any time to start tracking your miles of walking, cycling or running! You can download the sponsorship form below or alternatively pop into the school to get a copy of the sponsorship form. Please remember to track your activity wether it be a walk or run as a run and cycling as a cycle so that it shows up on our leaderboard!
The St. Fergus Pupil council have decided to hold a sponsored Virtual Pilgrimage to Rome. The distance from our school to St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome is about 1224 miles (1970 km)! This will be a sponsored pilgrimage to help us with our almsgiving during Lent, the sponsorship form is attached below. We are looking for all our St.Fergus families to get involved by running, walking or cycling and tracking the miles you do each day/week on our Strava page. This will take place for the remainder of Lent with the aim of reaching Rome and giving alms to alleviate the suffering of the poor. Our chosen charities this year are Missio and Who cares? Scotland. There is a link posted below for our video explaining how you can download the Strava app and how to use this along with some written instructions.
Instructions:
Visit your devices app store and download the Strava app
Create an account using either your email, Facebook, google account or Apple ID
Create your profile adding your name, date of birth and gender
Click ‘maybe later’ when asked to start your free trial (you do not need to have a free trial or pay for the app to use it)
click ‘get started’
Go to explore on the top toolbar > clubs > search St.Fergus Primary> request to join
Start uploading your activity using either the record button at the bottom of the app to track your walk/run/cycle or you can import activity from a Fitbit/ Apple watch. This is all included in the Facebook Video:
Here is a link to our sponsorship form which you can download or visit the school office for a paper copy of this form. Sponsorship money can be paid via ParentPay:
We are also looking to collect large loose parts for outdoor play. This kind of play can be used from primary 1 to primary 7. We are hopeful that’s some parents through their line of work may be able to donate these items to our school or may have family members or friends who could do so.
We are looking for
• Tyres
• Bricks
• Pallets
• Plastic crates
• Wooden cable reels
• Larges pieces of fabric and tarpaulin
• Ropes
• Plastic pipes and guttering
• Tree stumps and logs
• Cones
• Buckets
• Wheel barrows
Any donations can be left at the school gate and Scot will bring them into the school grounds.
Thank You
Mrs Gray & Mrs Ellis
We are going to be introducing loose parts play into our learning in St Fergus’. Loose parts play has been used for many years with amazing results. It is encouraged throughout the primary curriculum for indoor and outdoor learning opportunities.
It is a chance for children to
Play freely with friends
Investigate
Discover
Explore
Create
Use lots of trial and error to learn for themselves
Learn to make their own judgements about adventure play and recognise safe limits.
To do this we need to collect loose parts. The list of possible loose parts is endless but can include:
Boxes – various sizes, materials and shapes
Feathers
Shells
Pine Cones
Stones and Pebbles
Tubes – various sizes, materials and shapes
Baskets
Funnels
Sieves
Beads
Ribbons
Bottle Lids
Old Keys
Glass Jars
Corks
Nuts/Bolts/Washers
Scarves/Fabrics
Hoses/Pipes/Gutters
Pegs
Buttons
Small wheel from old toys
Old cars or toys that move
Metal baking trays or cup cake tins
Wooden and metal utensils
Pots/Pans
Small gardening tools
Watering cans
If you have any of these things at home that you would be willing to donate to the school we would love to have them. Please only donate things that you already have at home and are no longer used.
A box will be left just outside the school gate for items to be left. Scot will bring the box into school for the items to be quarantined and cleaned before use.
The pupil Council had a meeting this morning to review what we have already done and what we want to do this year. We are looking at the How Good is Our School document and want to hear from each class on what they think about the relationships in our school. We are going to look at the teaching and learning in our school and have a chat with each class about how our school promotes good learning and how we give good quality feedback. We are also looking at updating our school house reward system to link in with our current behaviour policy.
The pupil Council are beginning to organise some fundraising events for this year with the first charity we are fundraising for being MISSIO.
This year the pupil council have been working hard to revamp our house point system. We have decided instead of a weekly extra play on a Friday afternoon we would rather have a larger treat at the end of each month. In November St Mirin had collected the most house points and they received the first house reward of 2018.
We had juice and haribo at half time, playing games with Mrs Patterson was hard work.
Mrs Fulton helped us with some amazing Christmas crafts.
I had to concentrate really hard – Ula
I like playing with Kyle – Ross
Points are now being collected for our December reward which will take place in January 2019.
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