Langbank Primary School - Read for RNIB
We had a super day on Thursday 13th October, organised by the Pupil council, supporting Read for RNIB Day (Royal National Institute for the Blind). Activities included:
Book fair where children brought books into school and bought new ones back. Selling ‘dotty’ biscuits. Shared reading with P6/7 reading to P1/2 (books gifted to the school from RNIB)
Class competition where children had to use their creative skills to turn a picture of a book into
something
imaginative. The winning entries
saw a book turned into a fi sh tank, a robot and a face.
The aim of the day was to both raise awareness of
the
importance of reading, highlighting how fortunate we are to have our sight and also to raise money to help provide blind people with talking books. The school strongly supports the blind in a number of ways-the Fairtrade tuck-shop profi ts will go to sponsoring a guide dog and we are in the initial stages of setting up a partnership with a school for the blind in Ethiopia.
Kilmacolm Primary School
Last month we wrote to tell you about our collective Harvest event,’ Harvest for The Horn’, where we asked each child/family to donate the cost of a bag of cereal or pulses and donate the corresponding amount to aid Somalia, Kenya and other neighbouring countries. P.7 pupils coordinated all our efforts, making wristbands and a super wall display with hearts to show we care! We are happy to report that we raised the fantastic amount of £237 which will be donated to UNICEF.
Our Sports hall Athletics club has resumed on Wednesdays after school and many P5-7 pupils are enjoying a variety of athletics activities before teams are chosen for the forthcoming tournaments.
We are looking forward to welcoming Mrs Maureen Pepper from Gryffe Camera Club to present prizes to our budding young photographers in P6 & 7. We will inform you of successful pupils at a later date.
Our PTF group are holding a Halloween Coffee Morning to raise funds for the school. As usual we would like to thank them for their hard work and great ideas which raise money for school funds.
The boys and girls in Primary 2 have been learning about Transport. They have been designing their own modes of transport and comparing and contrasting vehicles and travel from the past and present day. They even produced some fantastic learning logs detailing vehicles that their grans and grandpas used. We’re now turning our attention to music and playing percussion instruments for our Nativity Play which we will be involved in very soon!
In P1, they celebrated Shiny Bears birthday party on Friday 7th October. We celebrated by making him birthday cards, place mats for the party and designing invitations. On his birthday we all dressed up in our best party clothes and wore our party hats that we had designed. Mums and dads had sent in lots and lots of yummy party food...enough for party bags home too. We played lots of party games and all had a fun learning time. Evie from P1
said it was the best party ever!
During October we took part in Walk to School Week and many classes continued the theme in their classes; by designing and testing road safety games and recording rap songs in P7, designing superheroes and mascots to promote walking in P6/5 and making strider puppets in P4/3.
We are currently without a staff member to take our choir and would be delighted to hear from any musically talented person who would be available once a week to come in and help us out. Please contact the school on 01475 715812, we look forward to your call.
One of our P7 pupils, Matthew Cameron, was invited along to the opening meeting of Greenock Burns Club in the Tontine Hotel to perform to the club members who hadn’t had the pleasure of hearing him recite . Matthew won the Inverclyde Trophy last year and was 3rd in the National fi nals for Burns recitation and we hope he has similar success this year.
We were happy to have a visit from Gladigators who teach the boys and girls in P1-P3 about the importance of good dental health and a healthy diet.
The three winner s were Finlay Cols t on, Jack Reid and Teale Robertson
Kilbarchan East Church Tots’ Club
Mondays from 9am-11.30am in the hall. The club is for tots, Mums, Dads, Grans, Aunties etc. All adults are welcome to pop in for a cup of coffee and home-baking. Tots are free and adults pay only £1. There is a bouncy castle, cars, and many toys and jigsaws for children to enjoy.
Renfrewshire & Inverclyde Multiple Club
Do you have twins, triplets or more? If you would like to meet other parents of multiples and have a chat while the kids play, come along to Renfrewshire and Inverclyde Multiples Club aimed at parents or parents-to-be. The club is meeting informally at the Lochwinnoch McKillop Hall every 1st and 3rd Monday from 2-3.30 pm. We are also organising events at the weekends and evenings for working parents. You can contact us on ritwinsclub@gmail. com or phone Shona on 07510 144 310 for more information.
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