We have been watching our caterpillars grow and reading the story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. We enjoyed listening to the story on the SMARTBOARD and we have been trying hard to sequence the story. One day we tried some of the foods that the caterpillar ate. We enjoyed some of the fruit!
We have been looking after our caterpillars. They have enjoyed eating all of the food in the cup and when they got big they climbed to the top of the cup and formed chrysalides. We waited for a few days and moved the chrysalides to the butterfly habitat.
Click here for the dinner menu weeks 3 & 4
Monday 23rd May
P6 Dodgeball (lunchtime)
P5-7 Girls’ Football (3-4pm)
P1 School Olympics (3-4pm)
Tuesday 24th May
P5 Dodgeball (lunchtime)
P3 School Olympics (3-4pm)
P3&4 Arts and Crafts Club (3-4pm)
Wednesday 25th May
P7 UWS Science Event
P4 Trip to Castle Semple
P2 School Olympics (3-4pm)
Thursday 26th May
Inserivce Day (pupils do not attend)
Friday 27th May
Holiday
Dear Parent/ Carer
Time is passing so quickly and we find ourselves at the beginning of the final term. As the days lengthen we will hopefully find the weather improving and our pupils will get the opportunity to spend time outdoors.
Lynn Ferguson
Headteacher
Our Primary 7 pupils continue to make links with Castlehead. They recently had sports input from senior pupils before spending time at Castlehead as part of the Sky Sports event.
Several of them took part in the trials for the School of Football at Castlehead and we wish them success with this. Pupils and staff really enjoyed the Lockerbie Trip and Activity week events, which took place during the week beginning 25th April. Many thanks to Mrs O’Boyle, Mrs Park, Miss Gibson and Mr Carson for organising and accompanying this trip and to Mrs R Campbell for activities week.
Friends of the West (FOTW)
Thank you to the parents who are part of this group, for all their hard work and support. They have been campaigning for improvements to our school building and this has paid off as pupil toilets will be refurbished during the summer holiday period. The next meeting will take place on Monday 16th May at 6.00pm in the staffroom and new members are very welcome.
Charity Involvement
Many thanks for your support of Comic Relief as we raised £455 for this very worthwhile cause. Thanks to all staff and pupils who helped to make this day so successful, especially Mrs Park, Mrs Milligan, Miss Wilson and Newton House Captains Morven McEwan and Ben Anderson for organising this event.
School Winners
Our House football tournament organised by Mrs Park was a huge success with lots of skill and enthusiasm on show. Primary 1 – 5 played for fun whilst Primary 6 and 7 held competitive games. Well done to Maxwellton who won both the girls’ and the boys’ tournaments.
Our annual carers’ competition, sponsored by The Cooperative Funeral Parlour, gave us the usual headache of picking winners. The reasons given as to why carers were special made us both smile and teary. Ailidh Lawrie P3 was third, Brooke McLardie P2 was second and the overall winners were William and Anna Matthews very well done to all of them.
Every year primary 6 take part in an Easter Bonnet competition with their efforts paraded at the beginning of the Easter service. This year the standard was particularly high and judging was very difficult. The results were; 1st place Kaiden Barr P6a, Byron Carden P6b, 2nd place Elise Hendry P6a, Kirstie Pringle P6b and 3rd place Ashley Clark P6a, Jacob Todd P6b.
Many thanks for your donations of Easter eggs which made a great display at the Easter service. These were distributed by The Cooperative Funeral Parlour to local children and elderly residents.
Primary 6 pupils learned a great deal from their visit to the “Safe Kids” events. They faced various scenarios and had to think about keeping safe and making good choices, skills we hope will stay with them for some time.
The Primary 5 trip to the Tall Ships has become an integral part of the Titanic topic. This year’s trip went very well with pupils showing a great deal of knowledge and behaving to West Standard.
Our Pupil Profiles are given a high priority here in school and almost all were returned signed, by the deadline. Pupils will be using them to review their year during the week beginning 6th June and we hope that they can see progress on their targets.
Our gym hall is looking like a great place to learn with the addition of learning boards. These help pupils and staff to focus on the key skills and significant aspects of PE. Let’s hope they inspire some sporting talent of the future.
We continue to work on our current school improvement plan. Staff have been developing our social studies and science topics to ensure breadth, progress and challenge as well as the development of skills for learning, life and work.
Our World of Work and Money Week took place during the week beginning 22nd February. Pupils participated in many work and money related activities and when surveyed found the input from visitors really interesting and would like more of this next year. Thanks to all staff for their hard work leading up to and during this week. Particular thanks go to Mrs Wiszniewski for organising the week.
Pupils from the running club took part in the Renfrewshire Schools Cross Country race. Mrs Milligan and Miss Wilson give up their lunchtime to train pupils and they were delighted with the attitude and effort that all pupils put in on the day.
World Book Week was as popular as ever and we had pupils dressed up as characters and designing front covers and new book characters. Developing a love of reading for pleasure will play a major part in developing their literacy skills.
Reminders to Parents
Reminders to Pupils
Upcoming Events
Click here for the dinner menu weeks 3 & 4
Monday 16th May
P6 Dodgeball (lunchtime)
P1 School Olympics (3-4pm)
P5-7 Girls’ Football (3-4pm)
Tuesday 17th May
P5 Dodgeball (lunchtime)
P3 School Olympics (3-4pm)
P3&4 Arts and Crafts Club (3-4pm)
P7 Basketball Club (3-4pm)
Wednesday 18th May
P2 School Olympics (3-4pm)
Thursday 19th May
P7 Castlehead Induction day
P5b visit to West College Scotland
Friday 20th May
P7 Castlehead Induction day
P4 visit to Castle Semple
P4 Dodgeball (lunchtime)
In our dance studio, Right 2 Dance have been coming in to do dancing taster sessions with the pupils.
When it was the turn of Primary 6, we learned a small dance that the leaders made up then we made up an ending with a partner.
It was great fun thank you Right 2 Dance.
Before the Spring holidays, the Primary 2 classes held an Eid Festival as part of their Eid topic. They got to try lots of different types of food such as: sauce, spicy onions, pitta bread, pakora, vegetable pakora and lots of different dips. After they had tried all of the different types of food, they did some traditional Eid dancing. The P2s were excellent at it!
Next they painted some Hindi tattoos and they thought it was very fun! The Primary 2s had lots of beautiful clothes on for the festival. They all had lots and lots of fun and they hope to do something like that again!
Our new P4 topic is Minibeasts . So far, we have talked about invertebrates and vertebrates . We have done a bit of work designing posters for the classroom wall for vertebrates . Everybody had stunning ideas . The amphibians were the hardest to draw!
Look out for more information and pictures from our topic soon!
Recently P4 have been making factories about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Have a look at them below!
P4a winner – Joe Dyer
P4b winner – Aimee McNab
P4c winner – Matthew Barron
P4a runner up – Matthew McGowan
P4b runner up – Xanthe Thomson
P4c runner ups – Grieg Ritchie and Millie Scarf
P4a 3rd place – Jayden Canaven and Caleb Proven
P4b 3rd place – Emily Todd
P4c 3rd place – Qasim Quyam
This week we were really excited as a special parcel was delivered to the class! 5 caterpillars have joined us in the class!!
We will be watching the caterpillars eat all the food they have in their special cup and then in 7 to 14 days they will climb to the top of the cup and attach themselves to the paper lid. We are hoping to see them change into beautiful butterflies!
The caterpillars are on our minibeast table and have started crawling about their cup and eating their special food. We will keep you updated on their progress!
We are all looking forward to returning to the Assessment and Development Class on Tuesday to see if the caterpillars have been eating their food and have grown!
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