Primaries 3 and 5 had a great afternoon opening their Read, Write and Count bags. They read ‘Gigantosauras’ together, designed their own dinosaurs and had lots of fun playing games of snap and adding.
“This is great fun!” Christian and Matthew
“Creating the dinosaur was fun!” Rebecca and Taylor
“It was fun being a buddy” Caleb
“I really enjoyed playing games with the Primary 5s” Logan
Primary 1 went on their first ever school cinema trip on the 17th November. P1 watched one of their favourite movies…’FROZEN’! All of Primary 1 enjoyed it and they would like to go there again next year as well.
Dear Pupil
We asked you to complete this questionnaire in June. Here are your thoughts and feelings about school. Most of the results were positive. The largest percentage of ‘No’s’ regarded bullying within school and how teachers dealt with this.
As a result of this concern I will discuss this further with the pupil council and we will focus on these issues during Health and Wellbeing topics and school assemblies. I have shown your teachers the results and they are keen that you are confident that bullying will be dealt with and taken very seriously.
We hope that you know how well you are doing by the comments on your jotter and with chatting to your teacher. Your parents have also had a chat with your teacher recently and it’s good to share this information at home.
We do take an interest in your life in and out of school. Don’t forget to let me know about any outside achievements that we can celebrate together at assembly.
Almost all of you were positive about school and that’s great. We want West Primary School to be a place that you feel safe and happy. We also want you to be interested in learning and to experience support and challenge when needed.
Don’t forget our aims and values:
Educational Supportive Caring Friendly Inclusive
| All About Me | Yes | Sometimes | No |
| I am happy at school. | 60% | 36% | 4% |
| I enjoy learning at school. | 69% | 30% | 1% |
| The work I do in class is just right for me. | 63% | 32% | 5% |
| I feel safe and cared for in school. | 68% | 25% | 6% |
| Our School | Yes | Sometimes | No |
| I think West is a good school. | 72% | 24% | 4% |
| My class is a fun and exciting place to learn. | 67% | 27% | 5% |
| The adults in the school take an interest in the things I do. | 63% | 29% | 8% |
| I am spoken to nicely by the adults in school. | 77% | 19% | 4% |
| The Staff | Yes | Sometimes | No |
| Staff let me know how well I am doing. | 62% | 29% | 9% |
| Staff encourage me to do the best I can. | 74% | 18% | 8% |
| Staff make sure that pupils behave well. | 68% | 27% | 5% |
| Staff are good at dealing with bullying behaviour. | 61% | 28% | 14% |
This week in the Assessment and Development Class we are focusing on the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’.
We read and discussed the story before sequencing the story pictures. We all enjoyed discussing and categorising the lotto cards before playing a game of lotto! The playdough boards are also great fun!
Week 2 on dinner menu
Monday, 21 November
P5 Lunchtime Multisport Club
Minecraft Club (3pm-4pm)
Tuesday, 22 November
P7 Curling Trip
Wednesday, 23 November
P2 Cinema Trip (am)
P5 Lunchtime Multisport Club
CHS Boys Football (4pm-5.45pm)
Thursday, 24 November
P2a to Scotland Street Museum (am)
Friday, 25 November
Bring a bottle for Christmas Fayre Tombola
P5 Vikingar Trip
P2 & P3 Parent Visit – Scottish Book Week (2.30pm-3pm)
Every morning for the past few months we have been running a Breakfast Club from 8.15am in the main hall. Click on the PDF link below to find out more information and contact the school office if you would like your child to attend.
Today the Assessment and Development Class went out on a trip to the Odeon at Braehead (Soar) with primary one.
We all had a FANTASTIC time! We loved the movie and really enjoyed joining in with some of the songs too!
This week in the Assessment and Development Class we have been enjoying the story of ‘Sleeping Beauty’. We have all worked hard to sequence the story, play pairs games and work with the play-dough boards to make a spinning wheel as well as the great big forest around the castle!
We would like to invite parents/guardians to a Reading Session on Friday 25 November as part of Book Week Scotland. During this week there will be a big focus on reading in school and the children in Primary 2 and Primary 3 will be gifted with a READ, WRITE and COUNT pack.
The aim of this pack is to give parents ideas and materials to use to support their children’s learning outside the classroom. At this session, we hope to share the pack and more ideas regarding reading.
The children will be introduced to the pack by older children within the school and will have a chance to read the books and play the games before taking them home.
We look forward to seeing you on Friday 25 November at 2.30pm.
