261 June 2016 - Gryffe Advertizer

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Lochwinnoch Primary School
Langbank Primary School
55 55
Primary 7 couldn’t have asked for
a better week for their residential
trip to Ardentinny. The annual trip
to this outdoor education centre
was once again a huge success
with children pushing themselves
to overcome challenges and reach
new heights. The good weather
meant children were able to go
canoeing, rock-hopping and gorge
walking as well as rock climbing,
hill-walking and team building
activities. New friends were made
as well as memories which will
last a lifetime.
Pupils have been making the
most of the good weather and
participating in all sorts of outdoor
activities. Children are enjoying
the Trim Trail and a range of
lessons from all curricular areas
are taking place outside. The Green Gang
have been hard at work in the polytunnel sowing and looking after their
plants and we are looking forward to tasting some of their vegetables when
they are ready. Nursery children had glorious sunshine for their Garden
Parties and Primary 6 pupils were invited to join in and get to know the
children as they will be taking on
the role of buddies next year.
The Competitions Council’s plans
to publish a school book are well
underway. Winners have been
selected from the many entries
from each stage and are being
collated ready to print. They
had a visit from Spar with a
kind donation of £250 to help
with printing costs. The £250
donation was funded from
the sale of carrier bags in the
store and Spar is committed
to putting this money back
into local communities. The
Competitions Council hope to
be able to give every family a
copy of the book free of charge.
The Health Council and the
Sports Superstars have been
busy planning Heath Week and
Sports Day. They have
many exciting activities planned throughout the week as well as a range of
visitors coming in to school to help deliver key messages about health and
wellbeing. The week will finish with Sports Day on Friday when children will
participate in their own choice of activity in the morning and competitive
events in the afternoon. Points awarded during the afternoon will go towards
the ‘House Cup’.
The children of the International Council and the ‘Helping Hands’ committees
enjoyed a walk to the loch with Stephanie Johnson to help her with a
photograph for a worldwide art project she is participating in. The project
is called ‘Swarm the World’ and is the brainchild of a New York artist. A
swarm of magnetic butterflies were placed and photographed. Mrs Johnson
will do this in several locations around the local area before sending the
butterflies off to their next destination. The butterflies will travel the globe
and eventually the photographs will be brought together in an exhibition in
New York.
Two successful and well attended evaluation sessions were held in school
with a random sample of pupils
and parents. The wider parent
body will be consulted on the
priorities identified from these
sessions and this information will
help formulate our next School
Improvement Plan. We would
like to say a huge thank you to
all of the parents who willingly
gave their time to help us in this
process.
What a chilled out and relaxing day we had at our “Vintage Garden Party”
at Langbank Primary School.
You can see by looking
at our pictures we
had fabulous weather,
delicious homebaking,
wonderful raffle prizes
and best of all were the
scones with clotted cream
topped with strawberries.
The pupils and parents
had a great day and the
weather was at its best.
Some of the money
raised will go to Save the
Children.