This week we had two super performances involving all our children in the school. On Monday our Primary 1-3 children entertained our grandparents and ‘senior friends’ with an outstanding performance of ‘Whoops a Daisy Angel’. The audience enjoyed a cup of tea and a mince pie while our Primary 3 narrators brought the house down with their comic additions. The audience was full of praise for our youngsters and rightly so. The performance was then repeated for parents on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon.
On Wednesday evening the school hall was packed for our Senior School Carol Concert. The boys and girls sang beautifully and were ably assisted by the audience. As in previous years we had a voluntary collection for our business partners St. Andrew’s Hospice.
My thanks to all staff for their hard work over the past few weeks to enable these events to take place. The teaching staff for their direction and the support staff for the invaluable role they play at this time and throughout the whole year.
St. Andrew’s House enjoyed a cinema experience on Friday afternoon as a reward for being the winning house this term. The competition begins again next term as Mrs McCart has now ‘banked’ the totals for terms 1 and 2.
Friday was also Christmas Jumper day for Mary’s Meals. This was organised by Primary 4 who are studying the work of Mary’s Meals this term. The raffle will be drawn next week.
Our nursery week started with a very successful visit to the soft play at Burnbank Centre. Great fun was had by all and lots of physical energy was used up.
The children are getting very excited as Christmas gets closer. We have been exploring the meaning of Christmas through our play.
In the literacy area letters have been finished to Santa and the children have had the opportunity to look at and listen to lots of different Christmas stories.
In the maths area we have continued to match shapes to make Santa’s and trees.
On the CleverTouch board children have been following Christmas activities and using paint programme to make Christmas pictures .
In the snack area the children have been deciding the menus for next week snack particular interest was shown when it came to picking the party food.
Throughout the session the children have been busy practising their songs for our Nativity show and look forward to welcoming you along on Wednesday 17th Dec at 11am and 3pm.
Next week sees our parties for all children. We look forward to the children enjoying these events with their peers. My thanks to the parents who provide and organise these events for all our children.
On Thursday our school choir will entertain shoppers at Sainsbury’s and then residents at Aberglen Care Home. Let’s hope the weather will be kind to us.
One of the highlights of our year will take place on Friday at 11am. Staff and pupils will join together for our Candlelight Carol Service, reflecting on the true meaning of Christmas
We finish school on Friday at 2.30pm – please remember change of time.
May I take this opportunity to wish everyone a happy and holy Christmas and a peaceful new year. Thank you for reading my last blog of 2014.
Mrs Hendry
Head Teacher
