290 November 18 - Gryffe Advertizer
The Advertizer - Your local community magazine to the Gryffe area. The Advertizer is a local business directory including a what's on guide and other local information and an interesting mix of articles.
The Advertizer - Your local community magazine to the Gryffe area. The Advertizer is a local business directory including a what's on guide and other local information and an interesting mix of articles.
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Bridge of Weir Primary School<br />
Thank you to everyone who came to parents’ night. It was good to share<br />
the children’s progress. In addition, your support at the Book Fair will help<br />
us buy exciting class novels.<br />
On the subject of books, all classes have been chatting with their teachers<br />
about their favourite authors and genres. Each class is to have a brand new<br />
reading corner, which we hope will encourage a lifelong love of reading.<br />
We’re looking forward to a visit from the Book Bus to help us choose new<br />
titles.<br />
And it’s that time of year again; the Christmas Fayre is on the evening<br />
of Thursday 22nd <strong>November</strong>. There’ll be stalls run by pupils and local<br />
businesses. Please come and support them all.<br />
Our school reporters have been busy this month. Here are their efforts:<br />
Macmillan Cake by Alice Ferguson (P7b)<br />
When pupil, Rebecca<br />
Paterson, heard people<br />
across Britain were hosting<br />
cake sales to raise money<br />
for Macmillan Cancer<br />
Support, she loved the<br />
idea and asked to hold<br />
one at school. She had<br />
lots of volunteers eager to<br />
help out. There was lots of<br />
preparation. Balloons and<br />
bunting were put up. Pupils<br />
brought lots of home baking,<br />
and the tables were soon covered with a delicious selection of home-baked<br />
cupcakes, brownies, pancakes, cookies, and flapjacks. The girls worked<br />
hard all day and raised a whopping £<strong>18</strong>0.66. Well done to everyone who<br />
helped.<br />
Edinburgh Castle by Tristan Mills (P6)<br />
In October, both P6 classes went on a brilliant trip to Edinburgh Castle<br />
where they were able to see Mons Meg, one of the largest cannons in the<br />
world. It was massive! The pupils all said it was a great experience. They<br />
even got to stand in the very room where Mary Queen of Scots son, James,<br />
was born.<br />
Science Centre by Alexander Higgins (P4)<br />
Primaries 4, 5 and 7 were lucky enough<br />
to visit the Glasgow Science Centre<br />
for a special school trip. They went<br />
on the hamster wheel, played Mindball<br />
and even controlled solar panels!<br />
While they played at BodyWorks, they<br />
learned about organs in the human<br />
body, blood and heart rates, DNA, and<br />
stem cells. At Powering the Future,<br />
they learned about renewable and<br />
fossil fuels, electricity and light. The<br />
P4s even got to make batteries in a<br />
real-life lab. It was a great day, and<br />
everyone agreed they know lots more<br />
about science.<br />
Kilmacolm Playgroup<br />
Playgroup is enjoying a busy term of learning. We enjoyed the story of the<br />
Gingerbread Man and decorated our own gingerbread biscuits and made<br />
fantastic door hangers.<br />
We have also been looking at different modes of transport and we have<br />
been learning our road safety. We had our own Zebra crossing and the<br />
children took it in turns to be the lollipop person enforcing all<br />
our road safety rules.<br />
Playgroup is open to all children from 2 years 4months<br />
and operates on a Monday, Tuesday & Thursday 9.30am<br />
- 11.30am. Spaces available. Please email Kirsty on<br />
playgroupmembership@gmail.com for more details. Our<br />
baby & toddler group on a Wednesday 10am - 11.30am is<br />
open for all new parents /carers to drop in for a cuppa and a<br />
chat while your child enjoys a play.<br />
For more information on any of our groups https://<br />
kilmacolmplaygroupand toddlers.jimdo.com or check out our<br />
Facebook page for latest information.<br />
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Duchal Nursery School<br />
We’ve had a really busy time recently.<br />
There’s been music, mud, water play, strolls<br />
in the park, arts and crafts and baking!<br />
We’ve been introducing the children to<br />
some classical music listening to Mozart<br />
and Berlioz. They loved making their own<br />
music, some loud, some quiet, some fast,<br />
some slow. Everyone was amazed at what<br />
different sounds can be made, and loved<br />
using the glockenspiels. We have even<br />
created our very own Duchal Marching<br />
Band!<br />
Our wonderful new “mud kitchen” has been<br />
a big hit and the children have spent lots of<br />
time in our garden being very imaginative<br />
and creative playing with it, as well as having lots of water fun with our new<br />
outside aqua flow and being arty on our new chalkboards.<br />
Madame, our French teacher, has been spending time introducing the<br />
children to French, and they all thoroughly enjoyed their French Breakfast.<br />
We are very lucky to have such talented staff with such diverse experiences<br />
which the children are really benefitting from.<br />
We can’t wait for our Halloween Fancy Dress Party on Saturday 3rd<br />
<strong>November</strong>, it’s on from 10.30am – 12.30pm and is open to all families with<br />
pre school children – come along for some spooky arts and crafts, Halloween<br />
games and lots of fun – we look forward to seeing your costumes!!.<br />
We are currently taking registrations for August 2019, if you would like to<br />
find out more and arrange a visit to see us, please get in touch and we can<br />
arrange for you to pop in to find out more about what we can offer your<br />
child.<br />
Duchal is an independent nursery with our children moving on to various<br />
local schools in Inverclyde, Renfrewshire and Glasgow, if you would like<br />
to find out more, please come and visit the Nursery to meet the teachers<br />
and see our facilities. Contact us on 01505 874358 or email info@duchal.<br />
com. Visit our website www.duchal.com and our Facebook page for further<br />
information.<br />
Langbank<br />
Playgroup<br />
What an amazing and fun filled place to be!<br />
At playgroup, children have the opportunity<br />
to develop their social skills, independence,<br />
creativity, numeracy, literacy skills and many,<br />
many more….. What’s not to like, when all<br />
of this can be done through play!<br />
The children had great fun developing<br />
their creative skills by designing some<br />
lanterns for Halloween. They also showed<br />
enjoyment while experimenting with a range<br />
of malleable activities such as shaving foam<br />
and coloured spaghetti with hidden rats,<br />
spiders and some other spooky creatures.<br />
Do you have a child aged between 2.5yrs to 5yrs<br />
old? Then why not let them come along and<br />
experience the fun! Everyone welcome from<br />
Langbank and surrounding areas.<br />
Playgroup is held on a Friday morning (term time)<br />
in Langbank Village Hall and we currently have<br />
spaces for children aged 2.5yrs to 5yrs. If you<br />
would like to join us on a Friday morning or for<br />
more information, please contact Jen Burrows on<br />
07947983025.<br />
Deadline date for our December issue - Friday 16th <strong>November</strong> - you don’t want to miss it!!
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