247 April 2015 - Gryffe Advertizer
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www.advertizer.co.uk april <strong>2015</strong><br />
Renfrewshire’s newly-elected MSYPs<br />
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Almost 6,500 young people turned out to vote in the Scottish Youth Parliament elections between 2 and 12 March in Renfrewshire. Sandra Black, Returning<br />
Officer, announced the five duly elected MSYPs at St Andrews Academy on Friday 13 March. The successful candidates were:<br />
Paisley constituency: Osama Nadeem & Emma Eck Renfrewshire North West: Eilidh Harkness & Mark Dougan Renfrewshire South: Carrie McIntyre<br />
Kilmacolm Primary School<br />
Through their topic of Space, our Nursery pupils have transformed an area of the Nursery into a space ship. They<br />
have engaged in space related stories as well as having the opportunity to engage in role play. They have been<br />
learning to sequences days and they are developing their awareness of the routines in the Nursery.<br />
P2/1 have been getting to know Katie<br />
Morag and her family who live on the Island<br />
of Struary. The children are learning about<br />
life on a Scottish Island and are able to<br />
confidently compare and contrast it with<br />
their own lives and experiences.<br />
P4 confidently entertained our parents<br />
and family members at their recent Viking<br />
Assembly and showcase of learning. They<br />
were able to demonstrate their knowledge<br />
and skills developed through the context<br />
of the Vikings.<br />
Our musical P5 were invited to perform a<br />
selection of songs at St Columba Church<br />
to celebrate World Day of Prayer. They<br />
performed beautifully as always.<br />
P6 enjoyed a very interesting visit from<br />
the Scottish Parliament. We undertook<br />
our own debate about whether or not all<br />
new cars in Scotland should be electric.<br />
Lots of good arguments for and against<br />
were put forward before we decided<br />
that all new cars in Scotland should<br />
not be electric.<br />
Fairtrade<br />
To celebrate Fairtrade Fortnight, Primary 7 organised and promoted a Fairtrade<br />
Stall and welcomed pupils, staff and parents. The stall sold a range of products<br />
and worked effectively to raise awareness of the importance of buying Fairtrade<br />
products.<br />
Burns and Scots Poetry Competition<br />
What a braw bunch o wains we have! We have just celebrated our annual Burns Competition and the standard<br />
was extremely high! Our finalists performed confidently and beautifully in front of their audience and their<br />
judges. Our finalists were as follows: P5 Poppy<br />
Paterson – 1st Place and our overall winner<br />
Finlay Thomson – Runner Up<br />
P6 Anna McGowan – 1st Place, Bethany<br />
Waddell – Runner Up. P7 Sara Ingram – 1st<br />
Place, Blair Storrie – Runner Up.<br />
Living Eggs<br />
Our confident and responsible Primary 3 and<br />
Primary 3/2 have had some fluffy visitors in their<br />
classroom over the last few weeks. They have<br />
been exploring first level science through a ‘first<br />
wing’ experience of the hen life cycle and related<br />
food chains. Everyone at KPS has enjoyed<br />
this memorable<br />
l e a r n i n g<br />
experience.<br />
World book day<br />
World Book Day was filled with fun, imagination, creativity and wonderfully rich literacy learning experiences. Our school was<br />
bursting with life, with an array of weird and wonderful characters from books. The costumes were creative, inspiring and<br />
most importantly stimulated discussion on favourite book characters; generated opinions and formed debates over much<br />
loved books and characters.
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