Category Archives: Whole School Events

P1 M’ s really busy week !

           

Thanks to everyone who came along to our Christmas Fair last week.  We still have some personalised items left , so please come along and have a look.

 

           

We have been very busy practising for our Nativity Concert and in between times doing lots of creative activities.    Here we are designing and making dresses for our dolls.

          

Here we are painting our Christmas movie poster for the hall.  You will spot it at the Nativity concert !

 

At Play Dough After School Club P1M and P1S made some amazing creations.   What great imaginations we have !

 

Christmas activities in full swing in P1M !

To link in with Book Week Scotland  P1M decorated wooden spoons to resemble book characters.

We had some great ideas – the witch from Room on the Broom,  the caterpillar from The Hungry Caterpillar,  a skeleton from Funnybones , Anna and Elsa from Frozen and Harry Potter !

 

The Christmas Workshop was in full swing, and our busy elves were  working hard to make sure that our crafts were all finished for the Christmas Fayre on Saturday 2nd December in our school hall.

Come along and buy one of your little ones crafts, they had so much fun making them.

                

                                          

We also practised really hard for our Nativity show  – It’s a Baby !   There were songs to learn and lots of things to remember , but we were just amazing – as usual !  Don’t forget to get your tickets !

Have a great weekend everyone.

This week in Primary 7 …

We have been learning about division this week in Maths. We can recognise that division is the opposite of multiplication and understand division is splitting a number into equal groups. We have been applying this knowledge when completing 3 digit number divided by 2 digit number calculations.  Division is tricky however we are finding strategies to help us before moving on to long division.

In literacy we have been working on our questioning skills for our reciprocal reading, creating quizzes on our non-fiction texts and quizzing our classmates. We have been completing our information report using evidence found online using our digital skills to help us. Our next steps will be to identify the sources of evidence and reference these in our work.

We have been getting into the Christmas spirit early this week by creating our Christmas crafts for the Christmas fayre next week. Keep an eye open for our handy Christmas baubles, they’re sure to sell out fast. We have enjoyed singing along to Christmas songs and can’t wait for more festivities.

Scottish Book Week in P1 M.

P1 M had a brilliant time with their Buddies in P7  who were excellent in showing the P1’s how to play number games on laptops.  P7 were super when explaining the games and P1 had such a great time they are looking forward to meeting up again.

 

This week was Book  Week Scotland and P1 M received a free Book Bug Bag with books and pencils from The Scottish Book Trust.  Mums , Dad’s and Carers were invited into school to enjoy reading some of the books and join in with activities about the books.

The children then enjoyed hot chocolate and biscuits.  Thank you to the Scottish Book Trust for the wonderful gifts.

 

 

 

Some pupils in P1 M and P1S  joined in with Playdough Club .  They had great fun creating their own playdough, mixing it up , and talking about the colours, texture and the smell.

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Have a great weekend !

Primary 5 this week…

Wow what another busy week we have had in Primary 5!

We have started our subtraction in numeracy and everyone has been putting in so much effort with our new topic! Keep it up!!

In writing, we were researching our own topic for our Information Reports using our class technology and will be writing our reports on Monday!

It was Book Week and we had lots of activities relating to this. We made book character wooden spoons and we may have contacted a couple of famous people to show them off to them!! Everyone did so well with this activity and all the spoons looked amazing!!!

It was also Catholic Education Week – ‘Pilgrims of Faith.’ Everyone researched a Saint they were interested in, some of the Saints were St Margaret, St Ninian, St John Ogilvie and St Bernadette. Everyone completed some great research and it was amazing to hear their different reasons for who they chose to look into. We then spent some time reading about St Margaret as the 16th of November is her Feast Day. We learned some very interesting facts!

Thanks for another amazing week P5!! Have a great weekend 🙂

An Update From Primary 7

What a quick week it’s been on Primary 7, although time does fly when you’re having fun…

 

This week in maths we have been consolidating our learning topic of multiplying a 3, 4 and even 5 digit number by a 2 digit number. We have been working well through our Math No Problem books and are looking forward to moving onto division next week.

 

In literacy, we have been gathering evidence to include in our own information report about animals, endangered, living or extinct which ties in nicely with our topic which we have partnered with 5 Sister Zoo where we are discussing various animals.

This week is anti-bullying week which made for some interesting discussions around relationships and safety. We looked at some agree or disagree situations where we were able to discuss our emotions and regulation strategies.

 

For world book day we created our favourite book characters on wooden spoons. Take a look at our work.

What a great week for Primary 7. It is a pleasure to teach everyone in this class. Keep up the good work.

P6 have had a busy week

Primary 6 who have had a busy week! After our author in the hall visit, we continued our Book Week by making  Book character wooden spoons – the ideas and creativity of which were fantastic. We also continued with our Talk Money activities following our visit from the Credit Union and found out all about how to spend digital money safely online. We then designed posters to show our learning.
In other work we have been learning about Numeracy in Graphs and have been talking about the Classroom in French. We’ve started our new writing topic – Information Reports – and will soon be writing a report about our topic – The Solar System. Well done P6.

Catholic Education Week 2023

Catholic Education Week 2023

Today marks the beginning of Catholic Education Week.  It starts each year on the Feast of St. Margaret of Scotland (this week – 16th November) until the Feast of St. Andrew (30th November).

The Catholic Church in Scotland encourages schools, parishes and other agencies to work closely together in order to celebrate the successes of Catholic education particularly during one week each year.  Catholic Education Week highlights the significance of education, not only for our children, but for society as a whole.

This year the theme for Catholic Education Week is “Pilgrims of Faith” and children across the whole school will explore this in different ways.  They will be introduced to the Catholic understanding of saints and how they continue to influence our lives as models of holiness.  They will discuss examples of saints and how they could be preserved as role models in our journey to draw closer to God.  They will identify ways we can be followers of Jesus in our daily lives.  Children will also focus on the meaning of “pilgrim” and “faith” and learn that a pilgrimage is a journey to a holy place and a person who makes that journey is a pilgrim.  To have faith means to have belief and trust in God and faith is a gift from God.

CATHOLIC EDUCATION WEEK PRAYER
Jesus our Teacher,
in your love for us,
help us to develop our own talents
so that we may become like you
and lead lives of goodness.
Bless all learners
and all teachers.
May our Catholic schools continue to serve our families,
our communities and our country.
Help us, through our learning,
to believe in you
and to celebrate the life of your Church.
Help us to grow in holiness
as we grow in friendship with you
and try to become saints.
We make this prayer
in the name of Jesus, our Lord. Amen