Category Archives: School Blog

Pupil Council Sponsored Virtual Pilgrimage to Rome

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:

  1. Visit your devices app store and download the Strava app
  2. Create an account using either your email, Facebook, google account or Apple ID
  3. Create your profile adding your name, date of birth and gender
  4. 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)
  5. click ‘get started’
  6. Go to explore on the top toolbar > clubs > search St.Fergus Primary> request to join
  7. 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:

Active Schools Social Media Information

We are encouraging all St. Fergus’ families to follow Renfrewshire Leisure Sports Services social media platforms. Together we aim to support all of our young people and families to remain active during this challenging time. Sport Services will be posting resources, local campaigns, virtual sport/physical activity sessions and lots more on our social media channels below. Please like/follow the platforms to help us get Renfrewshire families, more active, more often.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RLSportsServices

Twitter: @RLSportServices

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rlsportservices/

YouTube : https://youtube.com/channel/UCMkJUF4KR3MIzxVwvdqINeg

Keeping Digital Safe over Christmas.

This Christmas many of our pupils will be finding new phones and tablets  in their Christmas stockings, lucky them! However as they get started viewing videos,  chatting to friends and live stream gaming, it is important for us to remember to keep them protected.

https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/articles/parents-guide-being-social-online/

This year CEOP has created a series of videos to help parents keep their children safe. These short clips can be the starting points for chats about how we behave online outside of school.

Take a look at the Parents Activity Packs for some great ways to get started.

https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/Support-tools/home-activity-worksheets/

 

Christmas Craft Catalogue.

 

There is no Christmas Fayre this year, but the children have still been working hard to create fantastic Christmas crafts.

You can have a look at some of the crafts available by clicking on the link below that will take you to our online Christmas craft catalogue.

To buy a your child’s craft click on the option and send £1 into school. This will be collected by the pupil council.

Happy browsing!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSct94q_ddXEy02FsKU-H9E77BjbNoYOxH4tvg6y7ZTbo2zRcA/viewform?usp=sf_link

St Fergus’ Support’s Logan’s Food Drive

Today we gave our donation to Logan’s Dad who is organising food for those who struggle over the festive season.  This is what they managed to gather last year!!!

This year the pupil council and Logan’s friends wanted to help. Today Logan and some of our pupil council handed over St. Fergus’ donations.

We will keep you posted on how the Food Drive goes!!

Our Annual Christmas Card Competition

Well done to all the children for taking part in our school Christmas Card Competition,

Today we announced the winners at our assembly.

Well done to :

Olivia ~ Primary 1

Diana ~Primary 1/2

Ula ~ Primary 3

Amelia~ Primary 4

Milosz ~Primary 5

Emily ~ Primary 6

Jaime ~ Primary 7

Click on the picture below 👇to see the  winning designs.

🎬Welcome to our Virtual Nativity and Christmas Concert 🎄

Today we would like to introduce our Annual Nativity .

Keep tuned for our updates each day!

Scene 1- The Christmas Market 🎄

Scene 2- Roman Soldiers 🦸

Scene 3 – Mary and Joseph Travel to Bethlehem 🐫

Primary 1/2 presents ~Away in a Manger

Scene 4 – The Shepherds and Angels 👼

Scene 5- The Journey of the three Kings 👑👑👑

Scene 6 –  An Unexpected Visitor 🤱

Scene 7- The Jigsaw Comes Together 💛🖤

The Grand Finale by Primary 5 and Father John

Merry Christmas and a happy new year from us all!