P1 Reciprocal Teaching in Literacy

The children in P1 have been working on the sounds a, t, s and i. This week they have been participating in reciprocal teaching activities with a partner using their magnetic letter boards. They have been practising using the 5 finger approach (say, make/break, blend, read and write) as they learn to read and write words using their developing phonics skills.

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School Forums

Every child in our school is a member of a school forum. At the beginning of the year they choose which forum they would like to join. Each forum has children from P1-P7 represented and the senior pupils are elected by their forum group to become Chairperson and Secretary.  The Chairperson leads the meeting and the Secretary records the minutes. Everyone is encouraged to have their say and children listen well to the views of others. Congratulations to the pupils below who were elected as Chairperson and Secretary.

Mathew Gardiner Minute Taker

Rights Respecting Forum Secretary

Kelsey-Rikki Robertson Chariperson

Rights Respecting Chairperson

Cara Walker Chairperson

Health and Wellbeing Forum Chairperson

Sophie Douglas Minute Taker

Health and Wellbeing Forum Secretary

Eve Ramsay Chairperson

Fairtrade Forum Chairperson

Liam Scott Minute Taker

Fairtrade Forum Secretary

Bailey Tait Chairperson

Eco Forum Chairperson

Ryan Smith Minute Taker

Eco Forum Secretary

Ellie-May Jarvis Minute Taker

Community Forum Secretary

Ethan Thomson Chairperson

Community Forum Chairperson

Lexie Miller Minute Taker

Charity Forum Secretary

Sophie Bridgeman Chairperson

Charity Forum Chairperson

 

This Week’s Events

This week marks the beginning of Global Goals Fortnight. Each class will be focussing on one of the Global Goals in class and participating in lots of activities related to these.

Monday 23rd September – P6 swimming at 1pm

Monday 23rd September – South Lanarkshire Council Recycling Education Officer to talk to P2 from 1-2pm and Nursery from 2-3pm.

Tuesday 24th September – Junior Road Safety Officers from P6 attending JRSO event in Hamilton

Tuesday 24th September – Anti-Bullying Assembly – 2pm

Wednesday 25th September – Forest Group – Week 2 with Mrs Alexander and Mrs Shearer

Thursday 26th September – After School Football Club for P6 and P7 pupils

Thursday 26th September – Bikeability for P5 pupils

Friday 27th September – September Weekend Holiday – School and Nursery Closed

Have a great holiday! We will see you on Tuesday 1st October!

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Star of the Week

Every week staff highlight any child who has achieved excellence or who has worked hard in class or at home. These children are awarded a ‘Star of the Week’ certificate from Mrs Alexander. Well done to this week’s stars!

Nursery – Maeby Graham for excellent writing!

P1 – Aaron Leary for excellent reading!

P3/4 – Lucas Carswell for excellent maths!

P3/4 Kyeran Galbraith for super reading!

P4/5 – Calvin Sommerville for excellent manners, super maths work and for working hard all week in class!

P6/7 – Ellie McCutcheon for super handwriting!

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