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58 the advertizer t: 01505 613340 07731 923970 e: info@advertizer.co.uk Bridge of Weir Primary Gryffe High School With Halloween and Guy Fawkes Night firmly behind us we set our sights clearly on Christmas! The successful Christmas Fayre returned to Bridge of Weir Primary on November 24th. There was a tombola and lots of craft stalls, stocking fi llers and of course gifts hand crafted by the pupils. This month nursery staff will be scheduling meetings to update parents on their children’s progress and achievements. The nursery children are embarking on the ‘Cat in the Hat’ as their topic and will also be joining the rest of the school in our Children in Need ‘spotacular’ where all will be encouraged to wear their best spotty outfi ts! There are many after school and lunchtime clubs and activities taking place this term including football, drama, badminton, infant sports, basketball, Lego and art. We even have “before school” tennis for our Primary 3s! These activities encourage a healthy lifestyle, provide opportunities for socialising and achievement beyond the classroom and are very popular with all of our pupils. The school held open days for P4 and P5 during the month of November when pupils shared what they had been learning about the Vikings and the Scottish Wars of Independence. These were well attended by parents and other family members. One parent commented on the depth of knowledge the children have on their subjects and on how good the practical experiments such as sailing handmade Viking boats on water were. P6 have been heavily involved in the campaign for Paisley to host the City of Culture in 2021. Ramsay confi rmed that both classes attended a workshop led by PACE which highlighted Paisley’s past, present and future. The P6 pupils then participated in a play which was performed to the whole school. Grace said that it was fun learning the songs and actions celebrating Paisley’s future. Young Enterprise News We are Gryffe High’s ‘Young Enterprise’ team, CLA Scents. We would like to make you aware of our activities this year which focus around our product - candles. Plain, scented, with holders, without – we have got it all covered. We have teamed up with Braehead Clan whose Commercial Director, Andy McLaughlin has been providing us with excellent advice and support. In particular, Andy has helped us promote our company through the Clan website and we have been given a great opportunity to target its fans with our great candles by having a stall at the Clan game on 3rd December. We also hope to have a presence at parents’ evenings and a stall at the Gryffe High School Christmas Fayre! In the near future, we will be sending out letters and emails about our company and taking any orders for candles. Please make sure to look out for future communications about our company. In the meantime, if you have any enquiries about our company, feel free to contact us on gryffe.cla@outlook.com! STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Events Pupils have been involved in several STEM events recently. A group of S3 - S6 girls interested in pursuing a career within STEM attended an informative full day event on Women into STEM at West College Scotland this month. The event was designed to promote the different career pathways to female pupils within Renfrewshire and presented them with a range of workshops. The girls enjoyed the many activities on offer from joinery, bricklaying and decorating to inputs on working within conservation and engineering. Here is a selection of pictures of our pupils learning their new trade skills! In another event, S1 pupils spent an enjoyable afternoon at Thermo Fisher labs in Inchinnan, extracting DNA from Strawberries and learning how cells grow. Five senior pupils were also invited to experience the wonders of Vascutek industries in Inchinnan. Vascutek are world leaders in designing and supplying grafts to create a bypass for blood flow to treat aneurysms. The pupils visited the sewing room where they had the chance to try their hands at the intricate construction of the grafts. They were also given the opportunity to deliver a graft into a blood vessel of a “casualty” using the state of the art Anaconda device. Lastly, the pupils were allowed access to the custom graft facilities where engineers work alongside doctors to produce custom made devices to suit patients with specific physiology. It was a very inspiring trip with the pupils amazed that this life saving technology was being produced in Renfrewshire. Ciara attends Glasgow School of Art Portfolio Preparation Course Talented S6 pupil Ciara Nicholson, has been selected and given a great opportunity to attend Glasgow School of Art. Ciara is currently studying Advanced Higher Art & Design in school and she absolutely loves her extra Art classes at GSofA on a Saturday morning. From the GsofA website, ‘The specialised Portfolio Preparation Course is aimed at assisting students in the preparation of a body of work for application to their chosen area of study. The course provides students with their own Portfolio studio, giving students the opportunity to work in a unique art school environment, an exciting and dynamic place full of creativity and inspiration. Students attending this course have been consistently successful in achieving entry to Higher or Further Education Fine Art and Design courses, both in Glasgow and further afield.’ Ciara is pictured beside one of her very own creations, which has received a lot of compliments from visitors as it takes pride of place in the School Conference Room. The opportunity to attend this course has been an annual gift to the pupils of Gryffe High from the parents of another extremely talented pupil Ferran Hart. Ferran sadly passed away just before starting his sixth year in school. Ferran was an amazing artist and he even held his own art exhibition at the Veneer Gallery in Glasgow to raise funds for Teenage Cancer Trust. The school has supported this charity in memory of Ferran and the proceeds from the 3k Fun Run this year went to TCT. Ferran had a real talent for art, music and drama and he also had a passion for sharing his own skills. The school is really appreciative of the support from Ferran’s parents and we are certain that Ferran would love others to be given the opportunity to enhance their skills in Art. We look forward to seeing some of Ciara’s Portfolio!
@GryffeAds www.advertizer.co.uk december 2016 Kilmacolm Primary Abbey Nursery 59 Kilmacolm Primary is pleased to announce that we have returned to our newly refurbished building in Churchill Road and we are completely delighted to be back. We enjoyed our year in Port Glasgow with the generous space we had to use during our temporary stay but it is defi nitely lovely to be home. On returning from our October break we held a welcome assembly where the youngest and oldest child and the longest serving teacher officially cut the ribbon to mark our new start in our beautifully fi nished building. Hollie MacIntyre P1, Juliet Cunningham P7 and Mrs Helen Cook had the honour of cutting the ribbon to mark this special day. Pupils and staff are enjoying lovely light and airy classrooms with bright and colourful furniture, an extra gym hall, a fantastic newly resourced nursery and lots, lots more. Staff have worked extremely hard to make the school as welcoming as possible and unpacked what seemed like a million boxes. There are still some boxes to be unpacked but we can see the end in sight now. We all enjoyed dressing up for Halloween in our classes and P1 - 3 parents were treated to a grand Halloween parade. Thanks to all mums and dads for their imaginative and beautifully crafted costumes. We held a dress down day recently where pupils wore casual clothes in return for donating items for our Secret Santa Room, which is always a highlight of our PTF Spirit of Christmas event, being held this year on Saturday 19th November. We hope the local community will take the chance to visit us and have a look around our new school. We have had a busy start to this term; P6 & 7 pupils have participated in Athletics competitions, P6 visited Inverclyde Foodbank and P4 & P6 pupils have signed up for The fi rst Minister’s Reading Challenge and have many events and activities organised for us throughout the year. As we continue to encourage KPS children to read a variety of texts and genre we looked forward to Scottish Book Week in November. As part of this event we had visits from storytellers, authors, and special visitors who talked to us about their favourite books and answered some probing questions. P4 & P6 have already interviewed our Director of Education, Wilma Bain and Head of Schools, Ruth Binks, to sit in the hot seat and there are more still to come… Following on from our success at the Tesco Summer Reading Challenge we were delighted to have been invited to perform two songs from ‘Matilda the Musical’ at the Scottish Parliament. As you can imagine the eight boys and girls chosen were super excited to have been given this fabulous opportunity. They performed for John Swinney and Kezia Dugdale and were treated to some lovely hospitality. We have had a lot of visitors over the past few weeks and have enjoyed the opportunity to welcome everyone to the nursery. Brite Dental spent the morning with the children judging our Halloween pumpkin carving competition and the boys, girls and staff all looked great in their Halloween costumes and sang Nichola and Debbi a super selection of Halloween songs before showing them their pumpkins. Lindsay led the Red Group’s ‘World Vision pumpkin’ as winners and the children were able to tell them all about World Vision and how it helps children. The Welly Waddle was another successful fund raising event this year and children thoroughly enjoyed their walks around the village and puddle jumping. We were delighted to hand over a cheque to the Cot Death Trust for £1,233 and know they will put the money to good use. Another celebration was a whole nursery Best Practice Award from Renfrewshire Council and the NHS to celebrate the training and day to day practice in promoting Language and Communication within the nursery. This training has reinforced the skills of Practitioners in encouraging listening, understanding speaking and social development for all children and to the highest level. This was also mentioned at our Curriculum Evening for parents where we highlighted simple strategies to use at home to encourage language development and launched our Bedtime Books lending library. Meanwhile there continues to be lots of time spent outdoors just now with the kind weather and the leaves from the trees in the garden have given us plenty of ideas for creative works of art in every room. December then leads into our Nativity Play for the 3 - 5 age group; trips to the theatre and our Christmas Fayre on Saturday 26th of November from 10am until 12 noon at the nursery where parents and the local community are invited to meet Santa. Port Glasgow High School National Poetry Slam 2016 Their hard work and dedication paid off when S3 PGHS pupils excelled themselves and won the National Poetry Slam Competition at the Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock. Against stiff competition from schools around the country, the group of S3 pupils won the team event. Kerr Maclean won first place in the individual event with Jodie Pollock in second place. An outstanding result! The Scotsman’s National Writing Competition 2016 Head girl, Kirsten Irvine, beat off phenomenal competition to win The Scotsman’s National Writing Competition. Kirsten wrote an insightful and moving article on PGHS’s partnership with Nguludi Secondary School in Malawi. Kirsten’s award was presented by Ross Greer, MSP, at the Scottish Malawi Partnership Youth Forum at George Watson’s College in Edinburgh. Kirsten’s article will be published in The Scotsman in the near future. Inverclyde Rotary Masterchef Competition S5 pupil Ryan Collins placed first in the Inverclyde Rotary Masterchef Competition. Ryan created a scrumptious three course meal which wowed the judges and ensured he lifted the trophy. S1 Girls Cross Country Event Pupils attended the Inverclyde Schools Cross Country running event in Kilmacolm. S1 pupil Abi Hammerman came first in her race, with S5 Ryan Gray coming second in his race. An enjoyable day was had by all. S1/S2 Halloween Disco The S1 pupils planned the successful event themselves with help from the S5 sports leaders who ran the activities during the event. Teachers and pupils looked scarier than usual! Many parents and P7 braved the winter conditions to attend the PGHS Learning Showcase, a chance for new pupils to see the facilities and activities available. Visitors had an opportunity to visit each department and sample various learning activities in the classroom. Follow us on Twitter @PortGlasgowHS and @PGHS_PE_
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