Thank you for your donations today for Jak’s Den. The pupils love Dress Down Day and it helps raise awareness of the need to help others.
Primary 1
Isla: We wrote a story about the magic hat. I can write mat and rat by myself.
Sorley: We looked at some old toys. I got to bring my mums toy record player to school.
Lewis: We sorted old and new toys.
Anastasia. We were throwing and catching. I got the beanbag through the hoop.
P6’s Weekly Update
This week’s update comes from Hallie, Katie C and Lauren:
- We learnt how to make movies on iMovie using the iPads and posted the movies on the school blog.
- We were learning badminton with Mrs McConville. We tried to set our high scores and we played a game at the end.
- I think we have been doing well as a class in Big Maths Beat That because we always have some people beating their high scores.
- This week we have been learning basketball with Ms Pender. Some of us did street basketball, which is a fast moving game. You have to pass the ball three times then you can dribble and shoot. The other groups have been doing line ball and practising their shooting.
- Katie C, Mya, Ewen, Matthew and Logan went to a Cross Country competition. First, we walked around the course and everyone was hoping they wouldn’t have to go first! The boys went first and Ewen came 4th, Matthew came 7th and Logan came 16th. Then the girls raced and Katie C came 4th and Mya fell but got up and kept going to come 17th.
Mrs Cullum and P6
PSFA – IF NOT YOU? THEN WHO?
The PSFA (Parent’s Staff and Friends Association) is a small group of parents who meet when required to plan and share out tasks to organise fun events which your children enjoy. This included the Christmas Fayre, the Discos at Halloween and Summer and the P7 Prom among others.
The money raised supports your children in a variety of ways including funding licenses for educational software and subsidising all school trips.
Over the last few years membership has dwindled to a very small 3 or 4 who have continued to work hard to support your children. Currently the PSFA cannot continue to organise the same events, nor plan any new ones, without your help. Please come along to our PSFA AGM on Wednesday 5 October at 4:15 in the dining hall and see how, with even a small amount of time, you can support the experiences of all of our children.
Without more members the PSFA will not be able to continue as it has previously. IF NOT YOU? THEN WHO?
PSFA Team
and Steven Eagleson
Shelter Building from a wet P3
P3 braved the windy and wet weather today to visit Almondell & Calderwood Country Park. They showed excellent problem solving, teamwork, learning of new skills and confidence.
Children worked in groups to build their own shelter then the shelters were tested to see whether they met the agreed criteria.
They remembered that one of their rights is to have a safe shelter.
The shelters were so good that we considered camping for the night but we had forgotten our sleeping bags.
Well done P3!
Friday 7 October 11am – Families Learning Together – Session 1
Next Friday is our first Families Learning Together – Sharing Learning session. This is for pupils in P2 to P7. Anyone from home is welcome to come along and share the pupil’s learning. Please ensure the reply slip is completed and returned so we know who is coming – for security. The invite below is downloadable from the link – has been emailed – and is in each child’s bag.
If necessary – a simple note to the class teacher on whom to expect will be sufficient. We look forward to seeing you then and are all very excited at building on our programme of developing home engagement with learning.
Steven Eagleson
Click here to download a copy to print: flt-invite-reply-slip
P6 have been learning to make iMovies
Mr Eagleson and P6 have been making some of the movies mentioned in this month’s newsletter.
We all learned to use the app iMovie together and shared ideas and tips to make them. The stories are silly because the learning was about the skills we used to make them, not the content.
We co-operated, problem solved and used a variety of skills for learning, life and work. Check out our work below.
The movie below was made by Lewis, Miai, Mathew, Freya and Jed.
https://vimeo.com/184579088
The movie below was made by Ula, Katy R, Hallie and Ewen.
https://vimeo.com/184584131
The movie below was made by Katie C, Ella, Jasmin, Georgie and Lauren.
https://vimeo.com/184584537
The movie below was made by Daniel, Jay and Edward.
https://vimeo.com/184588265
The movie below was made by Sean, Euan, Logan and Aidan.
https://vimeo.com/184588398
The movie below was made by Katie D, Jessica, Oskar, Mya and Iona.
https://vimeo.com/184589433
Kingswood P7 Camp Powerpoint
I hope that those that were able to attend the P7 Camp Information presentation found the information useful. For those that could not attend please find a copy of the presentation below.
Click the blue link: 2016-09-22-p7-camp-presentation-kingswood
Remember that to secure a place we need a deposit by Monday.
P 2 / 3 Language Focus
Olivia P was helping us to learn some Polish words to describe our feelings. We drew pictures showing our feelings and some of the pictures had the feelings in English and some of the pictures had the feelings in Polish. We played a feelings matching game. We showed P3 how to play our game. P3 showed us how to play their game. The P3 matching game showed pictures of animals and their names were in Spanish.
September Newsletter
The September newsletter is now available. This is available from the newsletter section of this blog (Click here). The newsletter has been emailed and, for those that have requested it, a copy is in your child’s bag.
Please ensure we have an up-to-date email address for communication.
Steven Eagleson
