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Primary 5 Weekly News

Another busy week! Here are some of our comments:

Chloe: This week we focused on the Global Goals and one group in our class made up a song.

Rebecca: We were thinking about the Global Goals and we were given the choice to either make a poster, a drama or a song about 3 of the goals. We worked in groups.

Grace: This week we completed some activities for the Rights of the Child. My group did two things, we made a poster and a piece of drama it was such fun!

Thomas: Yesterday we had to vote for our new House Captains.

Beth, Lorena and Toni: Today we found out who the new House Captains and Vice Captains are going to be. We voted yesterday and the results were announced by Mrs Purdie during assembly. The Glasserton Captain is Erin and our Vice is Kalvin.

Joseph: Galloway’s Captains are Emily and Amera.

Bea: The House Captains for Whithorn are Mia and Ben.

Rachel M: This week we voted for our new House Captains and Emma and Erin won for Calder.

Vanessa: This week we started writing about our highlights of Health Week.

Chi-Chi: On Wednesday we described our Health Week in our Writing lesson. I wrote about Boot Camp, Cheerleading and Yoga because they were my favourite activities.

Maxx: This week we had Miss Ford for R.E.

Isla: This week for Maths we did height and weight and I found it pretty easy.

Max K: This week some people got their personal passwords for AAL and got to bring in their own devices. I was the first one to get a password!

Matt: We all watched the rehearsal for the Glee show. It was really good.

Have a great weekend! Primary 5 and Mrs Reeves.

P4/5 Weekly News

Here are some of our highlights of the week;

Louise – In PE this week we were practising races for the sports day and playing some new games. The game we played was a bit like dodgeball however was a bit more tricky. We also played with the parachute.

Abi – This week we started the ‘BYOD – bring your own device’ in our class. We used our own devices to do research for our topic and for the global goals. We also used our devices to play sumdog and some other maths games.

Krystian – In IDL this week we learned about food chains. We learned that plants and grass are called producers because they produce their own food and animals and humans are called consumers because they eat plants and other animals.

Marcella – The class got to present their project about endangered animals. Some children did power points and some children created factfiles, poems and even created animal habitats using junk materials. We all learned lots of new facts about some endangered animals.

Lewis – In reading this week we read non-fiction passage about Rhinos and answered questions about the text.

Lukasz – In Maths we have been learning about area. We have been looking at the area of a shape using cm2. On Friday we did our big maths and clic tests.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend

P4/5 and Mrs W

Global Goal 6 – Clean Water and Sanitation

Message from UN Ambassador’s:

There are many easy ways to join in.
*Take a Global Goals Selfie and help to spread awareness.
*Like and follow along at the Global Goals Facebook page.
*Follow along on the Global Goals Instagram feed.
*Follow the @UN and the @TheGlobalGoals on Twitter and search for the #Globalgoods and #SustainableDevelopment hashtags

Help our kids become the generation that changed the world: ending poverty, reversing climate change, and promising girls get educated. Talk to your kids about the #GlobalGoals with this fun guide: http://cdn.globalgoals.org/2015/09/Global-Goals-Parent-Guide.pdf
#TellEveryone

Nursery News

What a great health week we have had in nursery. We enjoyed all sorts of activities and had healthy snacks.

We started off the week with trips to the park and learning some football skills. On Tuesday morning our AM children had their visit to Almondell country park where they went on a Gruffalo walk, listened for sounds of nature, made pictures from natural resources and enjoyed the park. Both sessions loved expressing themselves in the dancing and yoga activities. On Thursday the children were encouraged to bring their scooter to nursery and had great fun ‘zooming’ up and down the playground . It was great to see so many parents and carers join us for the daily mile and also the Fun run. A big thank you to Mr McCurdy for arranging such a brilliant week and also to the parents and carers who helped us on our trip and activities. We couldn’t have managed these without your support. All the children had super fun as did the nursery staff.

Transition events continued this week with the preschoolers joining the Primary 1 pupils for the daily mile and a measuring activity.

PEEP classes with Mrs Beattie have started again with both groups learning sign language for the hello and goodbye song and being introduced to “The old woman who swallowed a fly.” Group 1 were also counting bubbles and trying to see how fast they could pop them. Group 2 were asked to draw round their hand and their parent/career’s hand and find words about their feelings.

Transition next week will be the Moving up mornings on Tuesday 6th and Wednesday 7th. Arrangements for both these days have been outlined in a letter given out on Thursday / Friday. If you have not received your letter please see a member of the nursery team.

There will also be menu options available on Monday for the preschoolers to choose what they would like to eat the following week at the lunchtime experience. Please note the choices depend on which particular day your child is going. These details were also included in the same letter. If you have any questions about any of these events please ask any member of the nursery team who will be happy to help you. We would also like to ask if anyone has the talking book at home as we are unable to locate it and some children have still to get the opportunity to take this home.

Our AM children will share their favourite Health week highlights this week.

Lucy” I liked the bus”

Christopher ” I liked the fun run”

Anna ” I liked the healthy food”

Celine” I like running the best”

Isabelle” I like the dancing”

Blake” I liked being outside with my friends”

Annabelle” I liked dancing n the playground”

We would also like to invite parents and carers to a drop in session on Wednesday 7th at 11.15 am to discuss ways in which we as a nursery can improve to make your children’s learning experiences better. This will be held in the P7 classroom and you will get the opportunity to chat to staff and other parents over a cup of tea. Children who come along will be able to watch Trolls on the smartboard! We would love as many as possible to come along.

Just a little heads up on some dates. Nursery sports day will be held on Wednesday 14th June at 10.00 am and 2 pm weather permitting. Nursery graduations for preschoolers only will be on Thursday 29th June at 10.00 am and 3.15pm.

For more photographs of our Health week please check out our Nursery parents Facebook page.

Have a lovely weekend.

The Nursery team.

Bag packing for Malawi

Today a group of the UN Ambassador’s went to St Margaret’s to help pack some suitcases for Malawi. This was a humbling experience as we saw many of the items which were being sent, things we all take for granted. Everyone worked really well together and checked that their cases were the right weight. The allowance was 23kg per case-not easy to achieve! Thanks to the St Margaret’s team for allowing us to help with this project, we are looking forward to hearing all the stories on their return.

Primary 5’s Health Week Highlights!

What a fantastic Health Week we have had! Here are some of our comments:

Charlie: This week has been packed full of different activities.

Bea: We have taken part in lots of fun activities such as Sports, Outdoor Adventures, Cooking and having fun!

Brandon: Health Week has been great! Mrs Reeves helped us to chop, peel and grate vegetables and to cook pasta. We also played Capture the Flag with P6. In Judo, Cole and Vanessa showed us some different moves.

Cole B: Judo was the best activity.

Vanessa: I enjoyed doing the Judo because one of my Judo coaches was there and I knew what to do!

Preston: Sadly, we lost the game of Capture the Flag.

Max: In Yoga, we practised lots of poses such as the ‘horse’ and the ‘cobra’.

Thomas: Golf was so much fun and the Golf teacher hit the roof with the ball!

Gaby: I won 2 points for my team in Golf!

Kalin: This week has been such fun. My favourite activity has been the Golf.

Lucas: We had Football and we did some dribbling and played games.

Ethan: The Football was really good fun. I scored a hat trick for my team.

Louise: On Tuesday, we did some Karate and we learned some kicks and punches.

Kerrigan: This week we played on a giant inflatable assault course – it was really exciting!

Rachel: We all raced each other on the inflatable course and I beat Chi Chi!

Beth: During our Health Week, we had some Cheerleading which was good fun!

Rebecca: We got to dance with Pom-Poms!

Taylor: We made up a Cheerleading dance, it was so much fun!

Lorena: My favourite activity was the Cheerleading.

Chi Chi: We practised all sorts of balances in Astro Gymnastics.

Chloe: We went to Bootcamp and we took part in a Tug of War, the girls beat the boys!

Toni: This week Mrs Reeves gave us health booklets all about how to keep yourself healthy and safe.

Have a great weekend!

Primary 5 and Mrs Reeves

Sporty P7/6

We have had a fabulous week, it has been so active and energetic! You can see from these photos we had a wide range of activities, these show bootcamp and cricket.

In between our active lessons we did some learning about food hygiene and how microbes can cause food poisoning, we discussed how extreme heat (cooking food) and extreme cold (freezing food) can stop these from multiplying.

We then used our food technology trolley and created some delicious cheesy mash. This involved us learning how to use the bridge grip to cut the potatoes safely. We all really enjoyed the experience and the taste!

We also learned how Edward Jenner created a vaccine for smallpox by using the cowpox virus…all very interesting if not a little yucky.

Our Star Dinner lesson was great. We all invited a wide range of interesting people, Mrs Currie wanted to invited J K Rowling, Jessica invited the youtuber Roman Atwood, Kornelia invited the singer Ariana Grande, Tristan invited footballer Cristiano Ronald and Freya even wanted to invite her cat! What a super discussion we had about this!

Well done everyone for yet another fantastic health week at St Ninian’s.

Awesome P3 – Health Week 2017

The end of a truly fantastic week in St Ninians, we are all feeling exhausted after giving maximum effort to all of our activities.

Some of the activities we have worked on this week, include;

Global Goal – gender equality: redrawing the balance clip

https://www.youtube.com/Brownwatch?v=qv8VZVP5csA

Inspiring The Future – Redraw The Balance

www.youtube.com

This powerful film from MullenLowe London provocatively captures how, early on in their education, children already define career opportunities as male and female …

Read Piggybook by Anthony Browne and discussed.

Global citizenship – Comparing our 5 a day healthy eating to a child in Lesotho in Africa.

http://www.sendacow.org.uk/lessonsfromafrica/resources/five-a-day

Fidget spinners – worked in pairs to read and learn more about why they were created and also designed our own symmetrical ones.

Performed verses of a poem in groups about keeping yourself clean and the parts of your body to wash.

We have also taken part in a huge range of activities; dancing, gymnastics, football training, running, cross country, inflatable fun run, cheerleading and many more.

Here are our thoughts;

Maliha – I really enjoyed Boot Camp and trying all the different stations.

Niamh – I liked Judo because the instructor was really funny.

Sophie YM – I liked doing roly poly’s, at first I couldn’t do it but then I kept trying and I managed it, I was very proud of myself.

Alexis – I enjoyed running round the pond for the Fun Run and I even saw a swan!

Cameron – I liked the Fun Run because I finished third in my class!

Kate – I really enjoyed being on the inflatables with Emily.

Bartosz – I really enjoyed running the Fun Run with Sophie.

Ethan – I enjoyed the Judo because I don’t do it often but I really enjoy it.

Emily – I enjoyed being upside down during the Judo activity!

Lennon – I liked the bouncy obstacle course because it was a good challenge.

Huda – I liked the Judo because I thought I couldn’t do it but then I was quite good.

Here are some pictures from the busy week, more to follow on school Facebook page.

Have a lovely, relaxing weekend, well deserved.

Mrs McMullen 🙂

P4/5 Health Week

Wow! What a busy, exhausting but very exciting week for P4/5 during health week. Here are all of our highlights;

Lewis – My highlight of the week was the inflatable assault course.

Harley – My favourite activity was capture the flag.

Lukasz – I loved the inflatable assault course.

Louise – My favourite was the astro gymnastics

Joshua – The Karate was amazing.

Charlie – I loved the fun run today.

Caiden – Me too!

Marcella – The assault course was great fun.

Mirren – My favourite was the Karate.

Harry – I loved judo.

Daniel – Karate was my favourite.

Filip – Judo was super.

Maciej – I loved the football.

Oliwia – I thought the cheerleading was great.

Krystian – I loved playing capture the flag.

Oliwer – I really liked the assault course.

Oskar – Capture the flag was my favourite.

Abi – The inflatable assault course was great fun.

We will all sleep all weekend including Mrs Wassell.

Have a great weekend

P4/5 and Mrs W

P7 Health Week and WW2 Trip!

We have had a very busy week in P7. On Monday we visited the Linburn Centre to see their WW2 museum and for the rest of the week we have had fun learning about Health and Wellbeing and taking part in different sporting activities. We hope you enjoy viewing our photos!

Here we are at the WW2 museum.