280 January 2018 - Gryffe Advertizer
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Johnstone High School<br />
Christmas Craft Fayre<br />
We hosted our fi rst Christmas Crafts Fayre and it was an extremely<br />
successful evening. It was very well attended and everyone had a<br />
wonderful time. There were over twenty five stalls selling crafts and<br />
Christmas treats. Due to the success of the evening, we are hoping to<br />
continue this tradition next year. Thank you to everyone who attended.<br />
Anti-bullying Week<br />
We also worked hard to encourage pupils<br />
to take part in anti-bullying week. We feel<br />
this is a very important issue and we are<br />
working hard at Johnstone High to ensure<br />
that bullying is a thing of the past. We hosted<br />
a range of fun activities that highlighted the<br />
importance of the cause and topped the<br />
week off with a staff karaoke. Pupils and staff<br />
had a great time!<br />
Congratulations<br />
We would also like to congratulate our very<br />
own Rebecca Adams. She recently won the Renfrewshire Youth Voice<br />
“Young Volunteer of the Year” Award after volunteering for over 500<br />
hours! We are so proud, congratulations.<br />
Houston Primary School<br />
Fantastic Photographers!<br />
Mr Chambers from <strong>Gryffe</strong> Camera Club and Mr King from Bridge<br />
of Weir Rotary Club, presented our talented photographers with gift<br />
vouchers for Braehead for their wonderful photographs they entered<br />
into this annual competition. This year’s winner was Lucy Carberry who<br />
took a photograph of the Louvre in Paris. In second place Murray Clark<br />
and in third place Emily Ross. Mr Chambers thought that the entries<br />
this year were of a very high standard and encouraged the present P5<br />
and P6 pupils to enter next year.<br />
Football<br />
Ms Brown and her football team are performing extremely well this<br />
season. At their most recent tournament, they won three out of four<br />
matches. Well done to all and their commitment to training.<br />
Netball<br />
Mrs Irvine and her netball team took part in a recent tournament and<br />
won three matches out of five. Well done!<br />
Renfrewshire Road Race<br />
Well done to all P6 and P7 children who participated in the Renfrewshire<br />
Road Race. They did very well with the P7 boys team being awarded<br />
with overall third place. Well done!<br />
Switch off Fortnight<br />
Houston Primary School has partnered with EDF Energy’s education<br />
programme The Pod to celebrate Switch Off Fortnight this November.<br />
More than 1,700 schools across the UK are joining in the action too.<br />
Our P7 Eco Representatives prepared a PowerPoint for the upper<br />
Assembly to spread the news. They had some fantastic energy saving<br />
ideas, such as ‘Gadget Free Friday’, and ‘Turn off Tuesday’.<br />
Eco Cluster Visit<br />
Andrew Hay of <strong>Gryffe</strong> High School, contacted Mrs McPherson to invite<br />
the Eco Representatives to their very first joint Eco meeting. This was a<br />
great opportunity to share ideas and expertise. We now plan to work in<br />
partnership with Houston’s Bee Happy group to develop a community<br />
garden and support with litter picking in the village. The Bee Happy<br />
group have made Houston a beautiful place to live with all the lovely<br />
fl ower beds and litter free streets.<br />
Houston Christmas Light Winner<br />
Mr Arthur organised this year’s competition<br />
to design a light for the village. All children<br />
created their very own design way back<br />
in September, which was a bit strange<br />
then talking about Christmas. The winner<br />
for Houston Primary was Kara Hunter of<br />
Primary 6. Here she is switching on her very<br />
own light in front of very many members of<br />
our local community.<br />
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Bridge of Weir Primary School<br />
Book Week Scotland is one of our most exciting literary celebrations,<br />
and one that the whole school takes part. This year to celebrate we held<br />
numerous events throughout the school.<br />
There was great<br />
excitement when<br />
P2 and P3 pupils<br />
received their Read,<br />
Write, Count bags at<br />
our special Book Bag<br />
Party at the end of<br />
November. They were<br />
joined by parents,<br />
grandparents and other<br />
family members who<br />
were invited into school to help share this special occasion. The bags<br />
are funded by the Scottish government and include books, counting<br />
games and activities to encourage reading, writing and counting skills<br />
and are an important part of our Book Week Scotland celebrations.<br />
Parents were very impressed by the high quality of the books and<br />
children loved exploring the contents of the bag with members of their<br />
family. This is a wonderful way to promote reading and learning at home<br />
and in school and we were delighted that so many parents were able<br />
to come along.<br />
Primary 4 – 7 pupils were encouraged along the theme that “Books<br />
don’t need electricity!” We can read them anywhere and everywhere!<br />
We invited children and parents to take the Extreme Reading Challenge<br />
and to think about different, exciting, fun and SAFE places you can<br />
enjoy a book and to then share their idea with us, the winner will receive<br />
a house token and entry into a Prize Draw.<br />
To end Book Week teachers swapped classes to read a story and<br />
some of our nursery and primary 1-3 pupils also dressed up as book<br />
characters (and so did some of the teachers).<br />
As well as book week we have also been reminding children of Road<br />
Safety Week, we welcomed both of our lollipop ladies along to assembly<br />
and to the nursery. Answering questions posed by some of our P3a<br />
pupils, they gave us some really good advice to help us keep safe when<br />
crossing the road.<br />
The Nursery children are<br />
enjoying regular sessions with<br />
Silly Science and each child<br />
has the chance to join in some<br />
amazing experiments. This<br />
was real hands-on learning<br />
and everyone was fascinated<br />
to see how materials changed<br />
when they were mixed<br />
together. They maybe didn’t<br />
realise they were learning<br />
about polymers but they loved making glitter slime!<br />
Christmas celebrations are upon us and in full swing, our annual<br />
school Christmas Fayre was our biggest yet which was organised by<br />
our dedicated parent teacher council and by many local businesses<br />
and stall holders. Children were able to showcase their creations to<br />
parents and carers and our Santa’s grotto was the best we’ve ever had!<br />
Our school nativity concert is set to place on Thursday 14 and Friday<br />
15 December with class parties also taking place on the last week of<br />
term.<br />
Our primary 5-7 pupils designed a greetings e-card that showed<br />
some environmentally friendly Christmas behaviours and traditions.<br />
The winning entries will feature in the 2017 Christmas card for<br />
Maurice Golden MSP. Winners will also be awarded a ‘Plant a Tree’<br />
experience.<br />
Kilbarchan Parish Church Tots’<br />
The club takes place on Mondays from 9.15-11.30am in the church hall<br />
and is run by a group of volunteers from the church. We are delighted<br />
to welcome tots from birth-3 years, along with their accompanying<br />
adults. There is a huge variety of toys and bouncy castle for the tots<br />
and enjoyable company with tea/coffee for the adults. The cost remains<br />
£1 for adults. The group resumes on Monday 8th <strong>January</strong>.<br />
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