Today they are setting new challenges. And, they are creating a whole class challenge! This week they are going to be positive in all their comments one another!
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
We are successful!
Middle school are celebrating success this morning! They have each successfully completed the personal challenge they set at the beginning of the year:
Today they are setting new challenges. And, they are creating a whole class challenge! This week they are going to be positive in all their comments one another!
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Today they are setting new challenges. And, they are creating a whole class challenge! This week they are going to be positive in all their comments one another!
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
BC Drama
S1/2 drama students had a great afternoon rehearsing and developing character and expression for their upcoming play. Some of them were also trying on some costumes...
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Safer Internet day
The whole school is taking part in the Europe wide Safer Internet Day. In Senior Assembly Mrs Speirs spoke on how to present yourself online. Miss Rukin outlined some of the recent changes to Facebook and how to protect your privacy. In class, everyone from P1-S5 has looked at the Insafe posters (see below) and discussed safe Internet use.
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
BC Drama
Drama students have finished devising their first play and were working on developing their characters using 'role on the wall'.
After that it was down to the new hall for some rehearsing!
After that it was down to the new hall for some rehearsing!
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
BC skiing week 2
P7-S3 skiers are becoming more confident as they practise their turns and stopping!
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Playground Toys
This morning Kai and Ben spent some of the money that they made from the sale of their P4/5 book 'Imagine'.
Last year P4/5 wrote a book as a language project and decided that the profit made would go towards buying toys for the playground.
The pupils had great fun playing with these today.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Rwanda Aid for Education
This morning in Senior Assembly we heard from Sarah and Douglas Kakooza about their charity Rwanda Aid for Education.
They told us about the country of Rwanda...
And explained how difficult it is for children in some areas to get to school. Often this is because children are orphaned as a result of the genocide.
Sarah met Douglas in Rwanda when she went to teach out there. Douglas worked with street children, feeding and training them in a trade- a similar programme that he himself went through.
Sarah and Douglas recognised that many children need sponsorship to be able to attend school. They have set up Aid for Education to sponsor as many as they can.
They told us about some of the children they are helping:
Aid for Education helps by:
- sponsoring children to go to school
- buying school materials for children
- buying uniforms so that children don't have to share
- buying goats for families, encouraging enterprise and financial responsibility. This also enable families to make money, using manure to sell as fertiliser, or by breeding goats to sell. This in turn enables then to send children to school.
- giving medical cards to families who cannot afford medical insurance.
All money goes directly to the community and the charities local worker prioritises spending.
The charity has also built three houses, helping those who lived only in a mud hut.
The school council is going to come up with some ways to raise money for the wonderful work that Aid for Education does.
We are very grateful to Sarah a d Douglas for coming in to talk to us.
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They told us about the country of Rwanda...
And explained how difficult it is for children in some areas to get to school. Often this is because children are orphaned as a result of the genocide.
Sarah met Douglas in Rwanda when she went to teach out there. Douglas worked with street children, feeding and training them in a trade- a similar programme that he himself went through.
Sarah and Douglas recognised that many children need sponsorship to be able to attend school. They have set up Aid for Education to sponsor as many as they can.
They told us about some of the children they are helping:
Aid for Education helps by:
- sponsoring children to go to school
- buying school materials for children
- buying uniforms so that children don't have to share
- buying goats for families, encouraging enterprise and financial responsibility. This also enable families to make money, using manure to sell as fertiliser, or by breeding goats to sell. This in turn enables then to send children to school.
- giving medical cards to families who cannot afford medical insurance.
All money goes directly to the community and the charities local worker prioritises spending.
The charity has also built three houses, helping those who lived only in a mud hut.
The school council is going to come up with some ways to raise money for the wonderful work that Aid for Education does.
We are very grateful to Sarah a d Douglas for coming in to talk to us.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
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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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
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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Here are P3/4 working on their Zulu dance:
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