“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.

Dinner Menu Weeks 3 & 4

Monday 29th February

P7 Sky Sports Event at Castlehead HS
P4 Lunchtime Tennis Club
P1 Multisports Club (3-4pm)
P5-7 Girls’ Football Club (3-4.15pm)

Tuesday 1st March

P3&4 Arts and Crafts Club (3-4pm)
P7 Basketball club (3-4pm)

Wednesday 2nd March

P5 Lunchtime Boys’ Sport Club

Thursday 3rd March

P7 Netball Club (3-4pm)

Friday 4th March

Nursery Coffee Morning

The Language Unit morning class listened carefully and followed instructions to make candles.

We followed the verbal instructions to position the wick.

Next we carefully melted the wax.

Then we added lemon scent to our melted wax.  We poured the melted wax into our prepared pots and left them  to ‘cure’.

Look at our beautiful scented candles.

The whole school had a great time playing and/or supporting their Houses in our annual competition. Games took place throughout the day organised by Mrs Park and the House Captains.

Well done to everyone who took part and for supporting your House with such enthusiasm!

This weeks sound of the week is –

We have enjoyed sorting lots of objects! Do they start with /r/?

Our songs/rhymes of the week are –

We have enjoyed singing the songs and this week we even made Incy Winy Spider!