Travel Planning School of the Year 2011

Each year Renfrewshire Council launches the Travel Plan Awards.  We are very proud to announce that for the second year running we are Renfrewshire Council's Travel Planning School of the Year 2011.  We returned the silver cup to Renfrewshire Council not so long ago to allow it to be polished up and ready to be presented to this year's winners.  Little did we think we'd be putting it back on our trophy shelf again the following week! 

In addition to winning the above title we also took first prize in a further category this year.  The school won the Best Walking Initiative category too & brought home another silver cup to the school as a result.  Our congratulations go to the pupils and parents of the Travel Plan Committee who are able guided by our Principal Teacher, Mrs Kaney.  They have led the school this year in many exciting initiatives which have made us think more about how we travel to school each day.  Well done to every school pupil who made a change to their school travel this year - no matter how big or small that may have been.  If any pupil, staff member, parent or member of the community has any ideas on how we can improve further, we'd love to hear from you . 

Health & Wellbeing

P1/2 are currently looking at health & wellbeing. We will be exploring different types of food and what food keeps us healthy. Today we were speaking about our favourite fruit and vegatables (and the many different ways we can eat them). We know that they are grown for us to eat and we are exploring what plants need to grow. We went out to the school garden and planted lettuces. They should be ready to harvest in about 4 or 5 weeks.

Here we are recording our learning in our big floorbook.

P7 Trip

Our P7 pupils left today on their 3 day residential trip to Lockerbie Manor in the borders. They have a wide range of activities planned and the staff left armed with cameras and flipcams, as well as the usual sick bags for the bus journey!  P7 were VERY excited this morning when they all arrived in school with their suitcases and sleeping bags. 

Our Primary 1 pupils and some of Primary 2 pupils headed outdoors to wave off their "Big Buddies" as their bus left. We look forward to seeing all their photos when they return. We have heard they arrived safely in Lockerbie.