Yesterday we took part in a Judo session from Junior Judo.
We had to wear a Judo jacket and belt.
We practised some of the Judo moves. These were breakfall, throwing each other onto our backs and side turning and falling.
” I enjoyed all of the Judo session” – Jason
” My favourite part was when I managed to get Scott onto his back” – Sophie.
” My favourite part was doing the breakfalls with a partner” – Elise.
We all really enjoyed it and some of us are going to try and go to a club.
On the Tuesday before the holidays P6/5 attended a cross-country event with other pupils across the cluster. Our very own Euian came second overall. He brought in his medal to show us.
Monday 11th April
2.20 Assembly (everyone welcome to come along)
See newsletter in school bags:)
Tuesday 12th April
P6 and P7 NSPCC Workshop
Junior Road Safety Officers plus pupil representatives from Bailey Avenue to Civic Centre where they will present to full council about road safety around our school.
No Netball after school today
6.30pm Community Council Meeting
Wednesday 13th April
P3/4 Roots of Empathy (baby Allie will be with the class)
3.15 – 4.15 Football After School Club
Thursday 14th April
Nursery parents meeting in Community Lounge
Credit Union – Mrs Gordon will be in school
3.15 – 4.15 Challenge After School Club
5.15 – 4.15 Dance After School Club
Friday 15th April
P7s Futsal
Upcoming date for parents…
Monday 18th April at 6pm – Curriculum event for parents Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenting
We have had a very busy term since Christmas. We thought long and hard about our top 3 highlights
Our first highlight of term 3 is when we learnt all about Sikhism – what they believe, where they worship and how their life is different from ours. The highlight was when we visited the Gurdwara.
Our second highlight is when we learnt about fractions, decimals and percentages. We found this very tricky but persevered with them and we are finding them easier. We are continue to learn and use percentages next term.
Our final highlight is the Basketball and cross country cluster events. We worked very hard to build up our skills before we went and followed the rules and played fair. Euian came second overall in the boys cross country event and will represent the school later on in the year.
We’re looking forward to term 4.
Minutes of Travel Action Group M
Introduction from the Junior road safety officers Emma, Taylor, Angeline, Emma
Attending:
Mr George Paul (Councillor)
Miss Shona Redmond (Parent Council)
Miss Alison Benson (Junior Road Safety co-ordinator)
Apologies: Mrs Kathy Gibson (Headteacher)
The meeting was held in upper school wing as the children went through their power point for the Civic Centre which they will attend on Tuesday 12th April at 9-30am.
Mr Paul advised the children to wear high viz vests to the Civic Centre .
Mr Paul also invited the children and staff who were going to the Civic Centre to the café for juice and cake which he will kindly pay for.
We have to take two children from Baillie Avenue to represent the school.
The children were advised to say their names before they speak their part of the power point.
The children have to have their own paper work for each of their speeches.
Emma’s speech has now been added to the power point and she will rehearse it before we go.
The meeting went well and Mr Paul and Miss Redmond gave the children lots of feedback regarding their speaking .
Thank you
Miss Benson.
eeting Thursday 17th March
Monday 21st March
Tuesday 22nd March
Wednesday 23rd March
Thursday 24th March
Friday 25th March – Sunday 10th April Easter Holiday
School reopens on Monday 11th April
Today, P7 came to teach us all about debating.
We found out that we have to use persuasive language to get our points across and different phrases when we are debating. We learnt that we have to be polite rather than argue with the opposition.
We had 2 different debates.
We debated that the school day should be longer. This was in the news yesterday so we found it a relevant topic to debate and talk about. The “agree” team found it difficult to think of reasons why but did a fantastic job to try and persuade Miss Cooke to agree with them.
Our second debate was that jobs are paid what they are worth. We had lots of different points and opinions and felt that this debate could have gone on for a while.
Miss Cooke and Miss Wickerson were very proud with how we debated.
We are going to get together next week to continue to work on our debating skills.
Yesterday P6/5 went to Glasgow to visit the Gurdwara.
A Gurdwara is the Sikh place of worship. We looked at the building and discussed how it was different to a church and a mosque.
” The building is symmetrical” – James
” The Gurdwara has domes on the top to make it easy to recognise” – Adam
When we went inside, we had to remove our shoes and wash our hands. This is a sign of respect and keeps the Gurdwara clean and tidy.
We also had to wear headscarves so that our hair was out of our faces. All Sikhs wear headscarves in the Gurdwara.
Once we were ready, we had a talk about the history of Sikhism from Manjit. She told us what Sikhs believe about God and why they have the Khalsa. We learnt that there have been 10 Gurus during the history of Sikhism.
” Guru means teacher and Sikh means learner” – Carla
” The khalsa is known as God’s army and have the 5ks as symbols to recognise them” – Jason
Then we went into the auditorium. This is where Sikhs come and pray and listen to the teachings from the Guru Granith Sahib. It was very quiet and peaceful.
” Sikhs put the Guru Granith Sahib to bed at night as it is respected like one of the family” – Scott
” The fan was really jewelled” – Morgan
Before we headed back to the bus, we were invited to the Langar hall to have try some pakora, curry and Indian tea.
” I really loved the pakora” – Emma D
” I tried the Indian tea, it was quite spicy” – Miss Cooke
We had a fantastic time at the Gurdwara. It was an experience that some of us will never forget.
On Monday, Primary 5, 6 and 7 took part in an internet safety workshop.
We had a discussion about why we need to keep safe and what we can do to keep safe online. We found that most of us are safe when we use the internet.
We learnt what cyber bullying is. Cyber bullying is when people call you names, are mean and do things online that they shouldn’t. We talked about whether people online are our friends if we have never met them.
We worked together to produce a play which showed all the things about cyber bullying and being safe online. We performed this to the whole school.
We really enjoyed taking part in the workshops as we learnt a lot from it.
Monday 14th March
Tuesday 15th March
Wednesday 16th March
Thursday 17th March
Friday 18th March
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