Broader Curriculum Ski-ers

Our next activity in BC is skiing. Those pupils not doing drama are travelling up to Bellahouston Ski Centre each Wednesday for an hours lesson.












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Primary music

This term, P2-4 are in estivating different styles and genres of music from around the world. Today we have learnt an Irish sea shanty, a song about a penguin and started learning a Zulu wedding song!

Here are P3/4 working on their Zulu dance:






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Christmas fun!

Pupils in upper are at Laser Matrix this afternoon. Here they are recovering after the first game:







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Christmas shopping

S4, S5 & S6 pupils enjoyed a very successful day Christmas shopping in Glasgow city centre today. An enjoyable day with lots of bargains purchased!

Christmas shopping!

S1-3 are shopping in Braehead today. They are getting some final presents and having fun celebrating a successful, hard working term.









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Christmas lunch

A big thank you to Jacqueline for preparing and serving a delicious 3 course Christmas lunch for staff and pupils today - thanks Jacqueline and Pete for all your hard work!

Christmas Nativity DVD

Our Christmas Nativity 'One Holy Night' was recorded by Steven's Dad and the DVD is available now for a minimum donation of £4.00. The DVD is available from Mrs Mole at the school and you can order one by emailing her directly (sm@cedars.inverclyde.sch.uk). We would like to get the bulk of these given out by Christmas so please order immediately to ensure you have the DVD by Friday. Many thanks to Graham Mellstrom as it looks excellent!

Re-arranging!

We are delighted that Cedars School is proving very popular and we are looking forward to two new pupils starting after the Christmas holidays.

The school now has 108 pupils and in August we will be completely full with 120 pupils.

Due to this happy situation we are re-vamping and moving primary 5/6 into a larger room on the ground floor and primary 1 and 2 are sharing the 'grand ballroom' on the first floor! This means that French and English will have separate classrooms on the second floor.

Even full our staff/pupil ratio will still be superb and maintain our excellent reputation for teaching and learning in small class sizes.

We will post pictures of our new classrooms once they are painted and ready.



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Christmas Nativity on BBC Radio Scotland

This morning we were on the Good Morning Scotland show on BBC Radio Scotland. It was a great, and rather humorous, advert for our Christmas play which is on tonight and tomorrow night in the church.

Some of the main characters spoke to Huw Williams who came to ask them about the experience.

You can listen to the interview yourself. Huw also came back for a surprise visit and gifted us a new doll to replace our old and slightly battered baby Jesus. Many thanks Huw!

After school art

Today was the last day of the after school clubs this term.

The iPad art club has been fantastic. All the pupils who took part were very motivated and enthusiastic and everyone created some super pieces of work!

Here are some seasonal paintings from today by Ben in P3 and David in P4:

Mmmmmmince pies:)

We are making delicious mince pies in BC today...

We started with this:



And finished like this:















ALL THE BC BAKERS WOULD LIKE TO SAY A HUGE THANK YOU TO MRS SPEIRS- WE'VE LOVED BAKING!!




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BC drama

Drama students were working in groups to devise short plays around the theme of dilemmas. They decided on plot, setting, characters, staging and theatrical effects before typing their scripts in the correct format.

BC drama

Today pupils were improvising stories and scenarios around the subject 'This diamond ruined my life...'
















Then pupils worked in groups to devise some dilemma scenarios for a central character we had created:

Sweet treats in BC

This week we are making Rocky Road and peppermint creams...

Yum!










































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