Primary 3 Cake and Candy

P3 are currently working on their Roald Dahl topic. To celebrate Roald Dahl Day today they planned and ran their very own Cake and Candy sale. Each pair of pupils ran their own "Cake Shop" and were responsible for presenting their cakes, pricing them and selling to the rest of the school. As their current maths topic is "money", they got the chance to try out their learning with a real life task. They were ably supported by our new Pupil Council reps. Primary 3 wore their special hats representing characters from the novel they are reading together, "James and the Giant Peach". They chose this book as it's 50 years old this year. Thanks to all who made donations of cakes and who came along to buy from them today. £133.50 was raised and P3 will be sending half away to charity and they will be using the other half to buy some additional language resources for their class.

Technology Club

This is a new afterschool club we have started this session and the number of pupils signing up for this is encouraging as it is now full. Each week we will be exploring different areas of technology and the pupils can return to their favourites or explore some areas of technology not yet covered in class. This week there was a competitive streak in the air as some of our members reviewed the wii game "Super Mario at the Olympics". They were asked to think how younger classes may use this software within their maths but as you can see from the picture the urge to win took over and the competition heated up. On the other side of the room some pupils were exploring all the components of our Purple Mash software whilst others were "morphing" their faces with photo editing software, after a demonstration by Matthew. Next on the cards is how to blog so keep an eye out for our Techno Team on the Pupil blog shortly.

Parent Council A.G.M.

The Parent Council held their annual A.G.M on Friday evening and received an excellent turn out. A full update was given on the work of the Parent Council this year and new members were sought to replace outgoing members. Each class gave a presentation on their work last year and the Travel Plan group, Pupil Council and Eco Committee also contributed. The Parent Council heavily invested in new computers for the school last session and the children are currently enjoying the benefits of this, across all areas of the curriculum. Well done to all our presenters and thank you to all parents who have helped support St. Fillan's over the last 12 months.

House Captains Elected

Each of our four "houses" (Ogilvie, Ninian, Columba and Queen Margaret) met with Mrs Maher and carried out their elections for their House Captain (from P7) and Vice Captain (from P6). The voting was very close for some houses and the results were announced at our last assembly. Here are our new House Captains in the back row, with their Vice Captains at the front. They will meet regularly with Mrs Maher and will begin their duties shortly. Well done on being elected!

Horticultural Flower Show

Many of our pupils had entries in the recent Bridge Of Weir Horticultural Society Annual Flower Show. Here are the prizewinners from the Craft section. Overall winner for the older children's classes was Romy Morris. Sue Whittaker, the current Chairperson called at the school to present Romy with a beautiful silver cup which dates back to 1959. Well done to all who entered.