We had some great ideas in our Star Wars Day. Here are some of the pictures. Well done everyone -it looks like you have had a lot of fun! We’ll give those Sith a run for their mony!
Here are some of your fantastic videos (we think some of the mums and dads enjoyed this task too!)
Brilliant work everyone!
Today is Star Wars Day – here are some ideas you might like to try out – you will of course have your own creative thoughts!
In each of the pictures there are some ‘odd ones out’ – characters that shouldn’t be there or maybe they’re from anothr film! Bonus points for naming them and saying why they are the odd one out.
Picture 1
Mr Hardy and his ‘friends’ are getting ready for Star Wars Day. Can you spot the odd one out? Comment if you spot them and bonus points for working out who they are and where they are from!
Answer – at the top left of the laptop – that’s Charon – The Devil’s Boatman from Clash of the Titans (the original film).
Picture 2 – These are the droids you’re looking for!
Luke is buying some droids from the Jawas. He needs them for helping out on Uncle Ben’s Farm – which ones would you pick? Can you design a droid that would help you? What would they do? What is their name? R2-D2 can fix starships, C3-PO can speak lots of different languages. Who shouldn’t be here though? – they’re not from Tattoine!
Answer – back right that’s VINCENT from The Black Hole and front right – that’s Daggit from Battlestar Galactica (the original series)
Picture 3 – Look out bounty hunters!
The Emperor and Darth Vader have hired this collection of mean bounty hunters to track down our heroes. Can you create a bounty hunter? What do they look like? What weapons do they use? What is their spaceship called and what does it look like? Boba Fett is my favourite – his ship is called….(bonus points from the answer!) Can you spot the two ‘bogus’ bounty hunters?
Answers – Third from right – that’s Princess Leia in her Boushh disguise and lurking at the back – that big red robot – it’s Maximillian from The Black Hole! Bobba Fett’s ship was called Slave 1.
Photograph 4 – Party at the Palace!
The guys from the Mos Eisley canteen are visiting Jabba the Hutt’s Palace for a party. Sy Snootles has just released a new single! They come from all over the universe. Can you design a new alien species? Draw a picture and create a factfile. What planet do they come from? How are they adapted to life on this planet? What languages do they speak? How tall do they grow? You could add in lots of your own details. Bib Fortuna has spotted someone that does not belong here – can you?
Answer – lurking at the back – looking at lot like Emporer Ming from Flash Gordon – is Kelek, an evil sorcerer from Advanced Dungeons and Dragons!
You can upload any of your pictures into Teams and we’ll share some on here. Remember – may the force be with you!
What a busy week it has been – Holmston and the other Cluster staff worked at the Forehill Hub this week looking after children of Key Workers. Every Cluster is responsible for running one of the hub schools across the authority.
Staff have also been very busy with the online learning, reviewing the work of the school and starting to plan and make arrangements for our return and next session. However, we still do not know when this will happen or what it will look like.
We are also starting to plan for our new P1 intake – which will be very different this year and we are developing a webpage to help new parents find out about Holmston.
In the meantime – remember Monday and Friday next week are public holidays so no new work will go up onto Teams on these days. However, Monday is Star Wars Day – Mr Hardy and his ‘friends’ are getting ready for this. Can you spot the odd one out? Comment if you spot them and bonus points for working out who they are and where they are from!
Remember to upload any Star Wars themed photos into your Teams – there are house points available for your creative entries!
Friday is also VE Day – we’d like to see any pictures of you celebrating too!
As always, take care, keep safe and if we can help in anyway please contact us via the school email.
Have a great long weekend.
This has just been sent out from Nrich – a great Maths site:
We’re really enjoying hearing from students who have been working on the tasks from our latest primary and secondary Maths at Home features. Don’t forget you can share your students’ thinking on Twitter.
If you’ve not already seen it, you may also like to take a look at our Maths Fair resources which include a variety of our favourite hands-on tasks your students can try offline, on their own or with family members.
One of our pupils, Katie has made it through to the Talent Lockdown for Musical Theatre Final. Please click on a link and vote for her!
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https://www.instagram.com/tv/B_jz2_Ilxho/?igshid=1h4w5lk3ux82r
Next Monday is Star Wars Day – so the challenge for next Monday is to get creative with the theme of Star Wars – you could cook, act, sing, re-create images from the films – use the force of your imagination! We look forward to seeing your photos and videos. House Points for creative entries!
There is a grant being offered by One Parent Families Scotland which can assist families on low incomes who are under intense financial pressure due to the coronavirus and are struggling.
OPFS Coronavirus has an emergency Energy Fund that can provide a one off payment of £50 to single parent families in Scotland who need help with energy bills.
https://opfs.org.uk/coronavirus-emergency-energy-fund/
Please contact us if you think you qualify.
We bid a fond farewell to Miss Lynch today and wish her all the best in her new job.
And we are very please to announce that baby Liam was born on Thursday. Miss Bell and Liam are both well and are safely back at home. We can’t wait to meet him.
We hope you have had a great week. Have a relaxing weekend and look after each other – we’ll be back again on Monday.
We would also like to say ‘Ramadan Mubarak’ to all our families celebrating.
One of our parents has very kindly volunteered to help us to bring some hope and brightness to the staff and patients at the Hospital.
The hospital has asked for children to create some artwork to be displayed in the corridors and doors of the hospital.
If you would like to take part follow the instructions below.
I hope you are all settling into a routine of some description and if you need any support please get in contact with us.
Please make sure you are accessing Teams as pupils now can get a log in for Education City. The details for this are in the Class Teams sites. We will be contacting families that have not logged on next week to see how we can support you to do this.
The website list has been updated with some new links. Please have a browse through some of the sites. These include virtual museums, resources for different subjects and links to YouTube channels for yoga, card game ideas and multiplication songs.
We will be starting an Accelerated Reader Challenge during May for the P4 to P7s. Links to the quiz pages and book finder can also be found in the useful website section. Here you can also find instructions for joining the librarby to borrow ebooks and a link to the free audiobook version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Even if you are facing challenges completing any of the online work try to share a book with your child or encourage them to read as often as they can. Please contact us if you need any passwords or usernames.
Stay safe!
Welcome back! We all hope you had a good break over Easter with the lovely weather that we have been having. It looks like we will be continuing with our virtual school life for a while longer. All the teachers have been busy preparing for this week back and have uploaded work into Teams. This week will be Miss Lynch’s last week and Mrs Davies and Mrs Bate will take care of the P2 Team site in the meantime. We would like to thank Miss Lynch for all her hard work and we wish her well for the future.
We fully appreciate how challenging learning and working from home can be so please make sure that you look after yourselves and do not put additional pressure on your families at the difficult time. Do what works for your situation. When we get back, we have an excellent team of staff that will fill in any gaps in learning – this is what they are fantatstic at doing. Try to keep reading, share books, cook or do PE with Joe. I have now mastered the art of Tik-Tok!
The BBC have started a series of programmes that can be accessed online or through the red button on your remote to support learning – not only do they have over 200 teachers delivering lessons but the presenters also include Brian Cox teaching key science topics and Manchester City footballer, Sergio Aguero teaching Spanish.
We would like all our pupils to be on Teams so if you haven’t been on yet please try to do this. If you need any help please email into the Holmston mail account.
We will keep you updated regularly so please check back and follow us on Twitter for further ideas.
What a term it has been but we have made it to the Easter break! I would like you thank all the staff. They have worked so hard to learn new skills and suppport each other to ensure that the learning continues at home. They are an amazing team. Thank you for your patience and co-operation too at this very challenging time. I know the holidays this year will be different but there are lots of links on the home learning section of the website and work on the teams sites to help you keep occupied. Emails will still be monitored over the holiday period although teachers will not be uploading new material onto teams during this time.
As we missed our Spring Serice here are a couple of our Easter songs you can join in with.
Spring Chicken Song
The Chocolate Song
…and we are missing our friends from Southcraig too!
You Will Be Found – Southcraig Choir #wecanchangetheworld!
We all hope you have a safe break – try not to eat too much chocolate – and we will be back in touch soon.
Why not try some of these maths challenges to keep you going!
What a fantastic way to start Tuesday – due to the hard work of our Fairtrade committee and the committment of Mrs Bate and Miss Johnston. We have achieved the FairActive award which builds on our FairAware award from last year. Thank you if you also helped by coming along to our recent coffee afternoon.
Good Morning everyone. I hope that you are settling into a routine and adjusting to this new way of life! If you haven’t logged onto glow yet please do and join in with your class on Teams and say ‘Hi’ Parents please can you email into school with your child’s name so that we can continue to improve our communication systems – unfortunately the text messaging only allows 121 characters – that’s why they are short!
We will be trying to contact you all over the coming weeks so if you have recently changed your phone number – please let the school know by emailing us at Holmston.mail@south-ayrshire.gov.uk.
If we can do anything to further support you or if you have any ideas – please let us know. Remember to follow us on twitter too.
Home Learning
Teachers are setting home learning tasks on GLOW teams and there is work on the website. These are proposed tasks only and we encourage parents to use their judgement. Teachers follow the Curriculum for Excellence and South Ayrshire Curriculum Frameworks so the tasks set will be appropriate for the age of your child and will guide you around the concepts covered. Every child is different and works in a different way. Teachers constantly change and adapt the task to suit the needs of the child. A daily routine might look like this but this is only a suggestion:
| Before 9.00am | Wake Up | Get Up, have breakfast, brush your teeth, make your bed |
| 9.00am – 10.00am | Exercise | Join Joe Wicks @ 9am, Cosmic Yoga, go outside and play
Oti Mabuse – dance class |
| 10.00am – 10.20am | Snack | |
| 10.20am – 11.00am | Learning Time | Complete some tasks set by your teacher |
| 11.00am – 11.20am | Break | |
| 11.20am – 12.00am | Creative Time | Lego, drawing, mindfulness colouring, crafting, singing, music, cooking/ baking together. Add your own ideas!
Youtube:Daily draw with the Little Art School (live at 11). |
| 12.00pm – 1.00pm | Lunch | |
| 1.00pm – 1.20pm | Reading | Read a book or magazine. Log on and listen to an audio book. If you have Readingwise or Accelerated reader log on. |
| 1.20pm – 2.00pm | Chill time | |
| 2.00pm – 2.45pm | Learning Time | Complete some tasks set by your teacher |
Well we have reached the end of a very unusual week – well done to all the parents and pupils, hopefully you have settled into a bit of a routine. Please don’t try to do all of the tasks that the teachers have set in a short space of time. Do what you think you can manage and don’t worry about trying to complete everything. This is very new territory that we are in and it will take a little bit of time to get used to! We will keep updating the website and the Teams pages. Please also follow us on Twitter. We will hopefully get to contact you all over the coming week just to check you are all fine.
The staff are amazing and have worked really hard behind the scenes to learn new ICT skills and provide learning opportunities – a big thank-you goes out to them. They are an incedible team.
Please get in touch through holmston.mail@south-ayrshire.gov.uk if you need to ask anything.
Have a safe and enjoyable weekend.
If your child is entitled to free school meals and you would like a packed lunch delivered daily to your doorstep from next week, could you please email holmston.mail@south-ayrshire.gov.uk today and provide your child’s name and stage. Free school meals will be delivered by a central team. We will pass on your address that we have on the system.
Please also see post below about accessing free school meals from Grammar Primary for this week.
Due to a very limited uptake, Holmston will no longer be hub school from tomorrow for free school meals. If pupils are entitled to free school meals they can get a packed lunch from Grammar Primary. Moving forward, options are being considered for a home delivery system. Families eligible for this will be contacted shortly. If you have any questions, please email the school.
Holmston.Mail@south-ayrshire.gov.uk
From tomorrow the Council will be moving to centrally preparing and distributing free school meals from specific primary schools. A list of all the primary schools is also available on the Council and website. Parents of primary, secondary and special school children who currently receive a free meal at school should go to their nearest primary school on the list, between 12:00pm and 2:00pm, where a nutritional meal will be available for you to collect for each of your eligible children. Holmston is a hub school.
A number of organisations have worked together to develop a short document with information about having conversations with children and young people about COVID-19, and resources to help explain and support anxiety around this.
