Reminder: All afterschool clubs are now finished.

Dear Parents/Carers,

Just a quick reminder to let you know that there is still time to buy your tickets for the ‘Pies, Peas and Bingo’ night being held on the 14th March at Blackburn Bowling Club at 7pm.  The Parent Council have organised this fun event along with a disco to help raise funds for the school and upcoming events.  Tickets cost £2 for admission and are available to purchase from the school office.  Bingo books and sheets and raffle tickets will be available to purchase on the night.  We look forward to seeing you all there.

P2 were very lucky to have a lady from a museum come in to speak to us about toys in the past.  We learned about how toys have changed over time and some of us were lucky enough to have a go at playing with some of the toys.

To celebrate World Book Day we thought about what our favourite book was – we decided it was Jumblebum and so we displayed our very own Jumblebum on our classroom door!

We have also been going bananas this week learning all about Fairtrade – we are going to stick with Foncho to make sure farmers get a better deal!

We are very excited about our assembly next Friday and will be very busy next week practising our lines!  We hope to see you after assembly next week to play some games in our classrooms.

The children in the Language Centre had great fun making pancakes on Shrove Tuesday for snack.  They loved the story of Mr Wolf’s Pancake.  Poor Mr Wolf didn’t know how to make pancakes so he asked various nursery rhyme characters to help him, however, they were very unhelpful.  Ella predicted the ending ‘Mr Wolf is mad – he is going to eat all of the people up!’ and guess what he did (plus the pancakes)!  Lots of the children made pancakes when they got home and the next day Lochlann and Andrew shared their experiences.  Andrew told us ‘My pancakes were different because they were thick ones and they didn’t taste the same’.  When we discussed Lent and giving up a temptation for 40 days Lochlann said ‘I couldn’t give up chocolate biscuits for 40 days – no way!’

Please note this week we have a Thursday afternoon assembly!

Thursday 6th March at 2.45pm

Primary 1F will be leading our Assembly this week.  The afternoon nursery children will be attending our assembly. 

Everyone welcome

As part of our People Who Help Us topic we have been learning how medical staff help people with asthma as three people in Mrs Hare’s class have this condition.  We learnt WHO has asthma, WHEN people get an asthma attack (the triggers) and WHAT HAPPENS.  Now we feel better able to support people with asthma.  Thank you to Lochlann and Reece who was able to share with us their experiences of having asthma.

Mrs Hare’s class have been learning about the food journey Foncho’s Fairtrade bananas make from Columbia to Britain and why he is happy to be paid a fair price for them.  The children each wrote a part of the story and enjoy eating Fairtrade bananas at snack time.

As you will be aware, there was a whole school photograph taken on Tuesday 4^th February to celebrate the school’s forthcoming 50^th Anniversary. 

You should now have received a copy of the order form for this with included a small sample image.  However, as the image is very small it is difficult to imagine what the actual photograph will look like, so a full sized version is available for you to view at Mrs Strachan’s office.  Please feel free to pop in and have a closer look to help you decide if you would like to purchase a copy of this special commemorative photograph.

All completed order forms and payments should be handed into the office by Friday 7^th March 2014.

In P2R we have been discussing what fun we had during masterclasses and here are some things that we all enjoyed;

• learning about and making the flags of different countries
• making animal pictures from hand prints
• taking part in a variety of activities
• taking part in arts and crafts activities
• cooking and tasting food from different cultures

We all had a fantastic time and look forward to taking part in future masterclasses.