On Friday we rehearsed for the showcase. Ten people took part, they were: Lauren, Robbie, Louis, Pippa, Brogan, Alexandra, Aimee, Rebecca, Saif and Erin. Lauren was the incredible ringmaster. The other five told the fascinating information and the final four showed posters and the popcorn cones.

Last week Mrs Donnelly came and talked about her job. Her job was a midwife. The skills you need are to be kind, confident and have compassion. You have to go university for 5 years.

She has to go to a pregnant mum at anytime. She doesn’t get paid enough for her hard work!

Last Wednesday, Lindsay Littleson came and talked about being an author. She has take part in a lot of  story contests.  She once was second in a Cosmopolitan short story contest and then stopped writing for 30 years! She also has a little short story in a Mumsnet book . She tried for The Kelpies Prize 2014 and WON! Her book is called “The Mixed Up Summer of Lily McLean”.  She has also been short listed for The Great War Children’s Book Competition. We really enjoyed the visit and we gave her a special West Primary Pen.

Professor Ehsan Mesbahi works at the University of the West of Scotland. He is the vice principal. His old subject was engineering and he used to sail on cargo ships and different kinds of ships. He helps solve problems and cures to diseases like cancer. He has lived in lots of different places like Liverpool, Newcastle, Japan, China, Portugal and many more! It was really exciting to hear about it. It was a really good experience!

“Safekids” is an experiential learning event which is taking place, this year, at St Mirren Park. This scheme is based on the fact that children learn by doing and being involved in first hand “lifelike” emergency situations, and is an ideal way to gain experience that they will remember and be able to apply in future life.

There are a number of agencies involved in the production of this event and pupils from P6 have the opportunity to take part on Thursday 10 March 9am – 12.15pm. Children should wear school uniform as usual. They will return to school for lunch.

Primary 3 have been making frozen berry yogurt in class, when we got to taste it, we all thought it was delicious.

To make the Frozen Berry Yoghurt you need these ingredients:

• Natural or Greek yoghurt
• Honey
• Frozen berries – Blueberries, strawberries and raspberries

You mix all the ingredients together in a blender until you get a nice creamy mixture and then put it in the freezer  for one hour or overnight. Take it out of the freezer and enjoy!

We learned a song about the Frozen Berry Yoghurt for our presentation on Friday. Mrs Moore, Mrs Campbell and Mrs New taught us the song, All of our teachers were impressed with our singing. The whole class really enjoyed it.

Last week, as part of the World of Work Week,  a lady called Anna came in to talk to us about her job. She was from Portugal. We had to guess what her job was by asking her questions – we managed to guess her job straight away! Her job is about making sure boats don’t sink  and she’s also in charge of the design of boats. She needs to do a lot of calculations. We really enjoyed her visit!

On Friday the whole school came together to celebrate World of Work Week. We talked about the Life Skills that we will need and a little bit about the people that came into school this week.

Four Primary 7s spoke about their time on a work placement. They showed us pictures and talked about their experience.

Every year group gave a presentation on the healthy snack they plan to make and sell as part of our Enterprise work. All the presentations were excellent and we look forward to trying the healthy snacks!

Thursday 3^rd of March is World Book Day and as part of our literacy programme we would like to invite parents or carers to join us for a visit to the school library, where you can enjoy reading a story with your child. The times for these visits are as follows:

AM session 11am-11.30am                PM session 2.15pm-2.45pm

Your child can also come to nursery dressed as their favourite story character on this day.

We look forward to seeing you on this day.

On Tuesday 15 and Wednesday 16 March the photographer from Tempest is coming to the school to take photographs for all the Primary classes.

P1 and P7 will have class, individual and family photographs taken and P 2 – 6 will have individual and family photographs taken. If you would like a family photograph please send a letter to your older child’s class teacher.

I would ask that the children wear a white shirt and school tie on these days if at all possible.