After three weeks of working on our Smoothie Challenge, in business teams of four or five, we finally found out the winners. They were Ryan Shaw, Ellie McDougall, Adam Clair and Emma Russell from business team ‘The Funky Fruit Gang’. Their winning smoothie was callled the ‘Sweet Tooth’. All groups worked very hard and it was a close competition. A big well done to all children in P3/4.
Monthly Archives: June 2012
Waving our Olympic Flags
At last the sun shone and allowed us to get outdoors and celebrate the opening of our health week. As usual, the children did us proud and responded to the House Captain’s challenge of dressing as an Olympic athlete and making a flag to represent the country the athlete is from. Mr Marsters officially opened the ceremony and the upper school received photos of Steve Cram, Steve Ovett and Seb Coe.
Wall Art
The Art After School Club have finally completed their challenge to brighten up the Nursery outdoor area. The designed and painted a range of flowers and here they are showing off their colourful wall. This was the last after art club for this session and both Mrs Snaddon and Mrs Aitken would like to say a very big thank you to all the children for their commitment and contribution to make the club a huge success.
Travel Safely Group
Today was the final meeting of the Travel Safely Group. We reflected on our achievements over the course of this year. We identified a set of aims, made an action plan and gave out questionnaires for people to complete on how they travel to school. The results have been displayed on our T.S.G. Board in school and we have started to make leaflets to remind people on how to stay safe.
We also identified our next steps. We would like to make improvements to our wall display and also to make more information leaflets.
Science Club!
Children were randomly selected to go to the Glasgow Science Centre to take part in a science exhibit. Children were asked to do a short presentation of what they had being doing in their club and then took part in 3 min science and engineering challenges, run by STEM. Children were able to take part in lots of activities during the day and watch a 3D movie in the Imax cinema. There was an award ceremony at the end. Children had a fantastic time and have asked for Science Club to continue next year so watch this space.
Fruit Smoothie Challenge.
The business teams.
Fruit Smoothie Challenge!
P3/4 has undertaken a challenge this week, to create a business which would produce and promote a fruit smoothie. Children have formed business teams and designed a logo for their business. Each busines has started to research different fruit combinations for their smoothie. Children will be issued tasks to complete from now until the end of term and will be secretly graded on the quality of their work and their success in meeting their learning intentions. The winning team will make their fruit smoothie for the P7 Leaver’s assesmbly.
Homework will be to research food products, packaging and advertising to help complete challenges. We will continue to keep you updated. Please check the blog for regular up dates.
What a star – Gala Races
Ryan displays his extensive range of trophies awarded at the local gala day at the weekend. Ryan won the flat race, 3-legged race, half lap, full lap, 7-8 years boys championship, overall boy champion and overall champion. What an effective contributor to his community and what a fabulous achievement! A potential future Olympic star in the making! Well done, Ryan!
Triathlon Event
Primary 5, 6 and 7 children participated in the West Lothian Schools’ Triathlon Event held at Armadale Academy. They were challenged in all three events, swimming, cycling and running. The children were enthusiastic and encouraged each other to the finishing line. Well done boys and girls!
Active Schools Charter – Bronze Award
Glenn Marsters, our Active School’s Co-ordinator presents Mr McDermott with our Bronze Award for Active Schools Charter. This is in recognition of all the sporting opportunities that are available to children within the school community, staff training to develop their own and children’s skills further and also raising awareness of this provision. A huge thank you to all our community who support these events!
