289 October 2018 - Gryffe Advertizer
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<strong>Gryffe</strong> High School<br />
Parents in Partnership<br />
<strong>2018</strong>/19<br />
Over the course of six weeks,<br />
twenty S1 parents have gone<br />
‘back to school’ for our Parents<br />
in Partnership Programme.<br />
The unique programme<br />
involves parents attending<br />
class and experiencing the<br />
teaching methods and vocabulary their children encounter on a daily basis<br />
within <strong>Gryffe</strong>.<br />
This is Week 3 and so far parents have had lessons in English, Art, Maths,<br />
Music, Spanish and Science. Parents always also have an information<br />
session on a variety of topics including sessions on ‘Wellbeing’ and ‘Show<br />
my Homework’.<br />
Mr Anderson and Mr Findlay who have organised the sessions would like to<br />
thank all parents and staff for their involvement in the initiative.<br />
This is the 3rd year of this initiative and the feedback from parents has been<br />
excellent.<br />
We look forward to welcoming the group back to <strong>Gryffe</strong> for the next three<br />
weeks!<br />
Activ8<br />
Mr O’Hare is delighted to report that a full programme of events is up and<br />
running again this year for Activ8. He also reports that this year continues<br />
to see records broken. Pupil numbers in week one reached the 150 mark.<br />
Over 50% of our new S2’s participated in week one as the top attending<br />
year group. With so much choice, all pupils have been able to enjoy the<br />
activities on offer.<br />
Activ8 involves taking part in the many after school clubs on offer at <strong>Gryffe</strong><br />
for 8 Wednesdays from 3pm – 4pm.<br />
Media Team Badminton Drama/MADD Volleyball<br />
‘Doodle and destress’ Basketball Gymnastics Netball<br />
Fitness Suite Workout Hockey Dodgeball Table Tennis<br />
Rounders Running Football Debating<br />
The <strong>Advertizer</strong><br />
State Of The Art School Campus<br />
Opened<br />
The new state of the art<br />
shared school campus<br />
of Bargarran and St<br />
John Bosco Primary<br />
Schools in Erskine has<br />
been officially opened<br />
by Deputy First Minister<br />
John Swinney.<br />
The Cabinet Secretary<br />
for Education and<br />
Skills unveiled a<br />
commemorative plaque<br />
at the campus, which<br />
also hosts the St John<br />
The unveiling of the plaque - L-R: Bargarran Head teacher<br />
Alistair Lyle, Bargarran pupil Megan Notman, Deputy<br />
First Minister John Swinney, St John Bosco HT Karen<br />
Mackechnie, St John Bosco pupil Nathan Cairns<br />
Bosco Early Learning and Childcare Class and a community learning<br />
space.<br />
Pupils entertained invited guests, who also included MP for Paisley and<br />
Renfrewshire North, Gavin Newlands and MSP for Renfrewshire North and<br />
West and Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Derek Mackay.<br />
The children staged three short performances, including a joint song from<br />
some of the new primary one pupils who were at nursery together last<br />
year.<br />
The two-storey building was designed by Renfrewshire Council, with Heron<br />
Bros constructing the double storey school as part of the local authority’s<br />
£16 million investment in the facility.<br />
The new building has mirrored wings for the two schools over two levels,<br />
with flexible spaces which support independent learning.<br />
On the ground floor, all classrooms lead out onto a playground area or<br />
courtyard for outside learning, while upstairs classes have access to a<br />
balcony area. Toilets and cloakroom facilities link to the outside and the<br />
shared dining hall doubles up as an ‘after school’ area.<br />
The playground area was designed in consultation with the pupils and<br />
will eventually include a performance space with canopy, trim trail, picnic<br />
benches, an eco-growing area, climbing wall, wobble board, spiral climbing<br />
net, an all-weather sport pitch and timber amphitheatre.<br />
The new facility also features a sustainable ‘green roof’ where seeds from<br />
native species have been planted. Once the plants have fully grown, a<br />
permanent video link to classrooms will be installed which will allow pupils<br />
to view wildlife in real time.<br />
St John Bosco is a denominational school and the original school was built<br />
in 1972, while Bargarran is a non-denominational school which opened in<br />
1971.<br />
Duchal Nursery School<br />
We are having lots of fun with our “Autumn”<br />
topic, and thoroughly enjoying our nature<br />
walks around the park to find items to use<br />
in our craft work.<br />
There’s a been a new delivery of outdoor<br />
toys in the garden which the children are<br />
loving, making the most of our outdoor<br />
space, with more play areas coming soon<br />
in the garden we are really lucky to have<br />
such facilities.<br />
We are delighted that Madame has now started our French classes for the<br />
year, it’s amazing to see the children embracing a new language at such<br />
a young age!<br />
Keeping healthy is always top of the agenda, we’ve been enjoying our PE<br />
lessons and everyone is getting involved in our new healthy snack regime!<br />
Date for your diary – we are holding a spooky Halloween fancy dress party<br />
on Saturday 3rd November from 10.30am – 12.30pm at the nursery – open<br />
to all families with pre school children. Come along to join in the fun, we’ll be<br />
making witches hats, Halloween mask, and there are sure to be pumpkins<br />
about!! We can’t wait to see your costumes!<br />
We are always happy for families to come and visit the Nursery at any time so please<br />
contact us on 01505 874358 to arrange a convenient date, if you would like to see our<br />
facilities. Also visit our website at www.duchal.com and our Facebook page to keep up to<br />
date with all the latest news.<br />
Kilmacolm Primary<br />
Everyone at Kilmacolm Primary<br />
and Nursery School have been<br />
celebrating Maths Week Scotland<br />
<strong>2018</strong> by taking part in many exciting<br />
maths challenges! Primary 7 have<br />
been solving a fiendish maths murder<br />
mystery challenge, Primary 2 & 3<br />
were exploring Roman Numerals,<br />
our nursery boys and girls have been<br />
investigating weight and measure<br />
and P1-P7 have been eagerly honing their numeracy skills at school and at<br />
home by taking part in Sumdog Maths Week Competition.<br />
Mrs Carruth has been busy selecting fresh produce from our school garden<br />
to create culinary delights in the KPS Cooking Classroom. On the menu<br />
was leek and courgette risotto and some delicious bruschetta, Primary 5<br />
were the lucky chefs and after some careful chopping, grating and cooking<br />
it was time to taste the results…it was a huge thumbs up from the KPS<br />
chefs!<br />
A fantastic array of characters arrived at KPS on Roald Dahl Day! We<br />
were joined by the BFG, Matilda, Mr Willy Wonka and even a Roly Poly<br />
bird! Primary 6 had an action-packed day filled with Roald Dahl STEM<br />
experiments, they created their own magical dream jars. Further science<br />
experiments were taking part in Primary 7, where giant peaches were being<br />
used to explore friction and gravity. The whole school came together for a<br />
Drop Everything and Read session, KPSLovesReading!.<br />
Deadline date for our November issue - Friday 19th <strong>October</strong> - you don’t want to miss it!!
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