283 April 2018 - Gryffe Advertizer

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Local Lad urges others to try
Modern Apprenticeships
The only job Angus Robertson
had before becoming a modern
apprentice was a two week stint
pitching tents at a trade show.
Now the 19-year-old is now in pole
position to embark on a worthwhile
career after intu Braehead gave him
the chance to become a modern
apprentice at the shopping and
leisure destination.
Now in his second year, Angus – a
former Gryffe High pupil and student
at West College Scotland – has
chosen to specialise in Health and
Safety and having already gained a
Level 2 qualifi cation in Business and
Administration, he hopes to receive
an Occupational Health and Safety
Level 3 qualifi cation by the end of his
modern apprenticeship. He is also
guaranteed a full-time job with intu
Braehead after his apprenticeship is
completed.
Angus said: “I would encourage young people to apply for modern
apprenticeships because it gives you a launch pad for the rest of your
working life... Thanks to intu Braehead I’ll get a qualification, I won’t
have any debt from having a student loan, I’m earning money and I’m
getting on the job experience.”
One of the high points of Angus’s first year was creating and making
a presentation to the intu’s board of directors about the company’s
modern apprenticeship scheme.
He added: “I will look back on my time at intu Braehead as a lifechanging
experience.”
Peter Beagley, regional centre director at intu Braehead: “It’s really
satisfying to see someone like Angus being given the opportunity
to forge a career for himself and develop and mature as a young
person.”
Strawberry Field
Out of School
Care
Over the last month we have been
extremely busy. We have been putting
our wellbeing and physical training into
action, with a variety of different outdoor
games such as basketball, dodge ball and badminton to name a few.
We have also been having lots of Lego activities being enjoyed by all.
The girls have been busy painting their nails and making jewellery.
We will now be preparing for Easter with lots of different indoor and
outdoor activities taking place.
At the moment will still have a few available for the Easter Holidays so
if you require care please feel free to give us a call on 01505 615315
or alternatively Email: sam@sfnursery.com
Kilmacolm Primary
What a busy month it has been at Kilmacolm Primary! Mrs McKeegan
and the boys and girls of Primary 2/1 celebrated Mother’s Day by
hosting a Muffins for Mum afternoon. They baked a sensational
selection of flavoured muffins and invited their mums into school for an
afternoon of fun, finished off with a fabulous home baked muffin, they
were delicious!
World Book Day was celebrated
throughout the school with children
dressing as a character from their
favourite book. Parents came in to
share the joy of reading with their
children, classes joined together
to read to one another and a
massive book swap was organised
to find new homes for our old
books. Kilmacolm really does love
reading.
Primary 6 recently participated
in The Great Big Food Cycle
Event where they were learning about Climate Change and how to
minimise food waste. After completing a series of challenges, they
were rewarded with a school wormery! Now we will be able to use
our lunch waste to create compost for the school garden thanks to our
magnificent wormery.
Generation Science landed in Primary 3 to teach us the science
behind magnets. It was out of this world! At the Port Glasgow Bulb
Show the nursery received second in class for their beautiful Spring
bulb selection, whilst Primary 6 won first in class for their stunning
Button Holes, thanks to Mrs Cook for helping us. Primary 7 had an
amazing time at residential trip to Dalguise taking part in a range of
hair raising activities including trapeze, zip wire, Jacob’s ladder and
the Giant Swing. They were extremely proud of what they achieved,
well done P7.
Kilmacolm Nursery Class
We have had a busy few weeks at Kilmacolm nursery class. Due to
the snow we had to postpone world book day which we held on Friday
9th March. The children celebrated world book day by dressing as a
character from their favourite book. We visited the school library to
read some books and even shared stories with the children from the
school.
Meet our buddy
We have started our nursery to school transition programme. The
children have been joining in with primary 1 at playtime, we also met
our buddies who are going to help look after us when we start school.
Our parents also met our buddies.
Port Glasgow Bulb Show
The children put a variety of entries
into the bulb show this year. This
included the children making their
own handicrafts and paintings. The
children also planted bulbs. Can you
believe we won overall second prize!
We can’t wait to receive our certificate
and spend our prize money.
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