A huge thank you to @StuartReidBooks for a fantastic assembly this morning! Stuart told us all about his journey to become an author and about his books. It was a fun, engaging and motivating assembly. What a way to end the week!
I’d also like to thank the Reading Rangers for inviting Stuart to Wallace Primary. The group wrote an email to Stuart and helped organise the event. Well done everyone!
#readingrocks
Congratulations to the Fair Trade Committee who organised a great Fair Trade Coffee Afternoon. Pupils and their parents/carers enjoyed some tea, coffee, fruit juice, biscuits, bananas and pancakes – all Fairtrade of course! It also gave parents/carers the opportunity to look at the fair trade work that children have been completing in their classes during Fair Trade fortnight. The coffee afternoon was so well supported that we had to bring in more tables! Thank you to everyone who came along and to the pupils in the Fair Trade Committee who worked so hard to organise this event.
All classes were given a Fair Trade Challenge at the beginning of Fair Trade Fortnight. Classes submitted their display boards today. See below for the results.
Nursery & Primary 1
Nursery and Primary 1 pupils were given the Fair Trade logo to research. The found the logo on items at home and brought them to school to share with their friends. Nursery children completed some Fair Trade art work. Primary 1 pupils shared their thoughts on the logo.
Primary 2
Primary 2 pupils researched Fair Trade chocolate. They found out that chocolate is made from cocoa beans.
Primary 3
Primary 3 followed the story of ‘Pablo the Super-Banana’. They looked at the journey of a banana and made Fair Trade banana posters too.
Primary 4
Primary 4 pupils learned about Fair Trade coffee. They found out that some coffee beans are grown in Malawi.
Primary 5
Primary 5 researched tea production. They were able to find ten different countries around the world that grow tea.
Primary 6
Primary 6 learned about cotton. They looked at how clothes are made from the cotton plant. They even did their own cotton printing!
Primary 7
Primary 7 researched Fair Trade sugar. They found out that sugar cane is grown in Malawi and Mauritius. Pupils looked at how sugar cane is made in to refined sugar and used in lots of our foods. They made their own lemonade and cake using Fair Trade sugar, both were delicious!
Well done to everyone for making such a huge effort to complete their Fair Trade challenge this Fair Trade Fortnight.
The Fairtrade Committee have been working very hard delivering assemblies and organising events. Their efforts have been recognised and have helped to renew our Fairtrade School status! We are a FairActive School! The Committee will now begin to work towards FairAchiever Status.
Everyone gathered in the school hall this morning to be given their Fair Trade challenge. Each year group was given an item to investigate during Fairtrade Fortnight. Children’s work will be ondisplay at our Fairtrade Coffee Afternoon next week.
The Challenge
Nursery & Primary 1 – Fairtrade Logo
Primary 2 – chocolate
Primary 3 – bananas
Primary 4 – coffee
Primary 5 – tea
Primary 6 – cotton
Primary 7 – sugar
You may have read on our Twitter feed or been told by the children that last week we were delighted to announce we were one of the winning schools for Renfrewshire for Book Week Scotland. The staff and pupils worked so hard to make the week a success and we are delighted to have our hard work recognised.
School will close tomorrow at 2.30pm and reopen at 9am on Thursday 4th January.
We wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a lovely holiday with family and friends.
Change of menu for 4th January
Option 1 – Chicken Curry
Option 2 – Turkey Meatballs in tomato sauce with roast potatoes
Option 3 – Baked Potato
After this we will move to the new menu which was issued.
What a fantastic week we had during #BookWeekScot @AttainRen !
On Monday, we had a Book Week Event. There were so many things going on – a Literacy presentation for parents, a Reading Cafe for children, book quizzes, recommendation stalls and much more! There were leaflets with information about Literacy in the Nursery-P1, P1-P3 and P4-7. These will soon be available to download on our website. We had a lot of positive feedback from the Event. Click below to read some of the lovely comments.
Pupil Evaluations from the event and Parent Evaluations from the event.
Throughout the week we had lots going on. P4-7 and P1-3 wrote books! Each stage wrote one chapter then passed it on. The finished products are amazing! Classes also created a reading display and transformed their libraries into cosy reading areas.
Thank you to everyone who came to our Event on Monday and to all staff and pupils for their hard work during Book Week. We can’t wait for Book Week 2018!
