We are loving see the imaginative ways everyone is tackling the work coming home and the additional activities the children are involved in. Please keep sending in the photos!

Many thanks for the lovely painted stone that was left by our nursery gate I think maybe by Orla and Lewis?! It was such a  lovely thought. Thank you Austin and Blair for explaining to me all about these painted stones and for sending in the pictures of yours too. They look beautiful.

Congratulations to Freya & Amelia who too part in the 2.6/26 challenge on Sunday! They set up an obstacle course & did 26 laps of the garden with their mum & dad trying to keep up with them!  The girls designed the course and Freya led the warm up.  They raised raised £340 for Maggie’s centres, an amazing amount of money for a fantastic charity. We are all very proud of your efforts Freya and Amelia!

We are delighted to share this lovely video with you all by 2 of our pupils, Ruairi and Eilidh, who made it with their cousins, Ben, Noah, Molly, Hannah, Cara, Conor, Eoin, Grace and Fionn in Ireland, as they have learned to sign the NHS anthem using British Sign language. You may have read about the success of this video in the Evening News a few days ago.  We are all very proud of Ruairi and Eilidh and all their cousins for making and would like to thank them for allowing us to share it  with you all, here on our website.  We hope you enjoy watching it.

Thank you once more for the lovely photos being sent in of everything our children are up to with their home learning. We really miss seeing  the children every day so love seeing these photos!

We are delighted to share this fantastic achievement on our website to mark the start of of Ramadan. We are all very proud of Anum  and her outstanding example of resilience by not letting the current lock-down prevent her from achieving this award.

As part of her Brownie Gold award, Anum has been planning to do a talk about something she is passionate about and would be new to her Brownie friends. Before lock-down she had arranged with her Brownie leader to give a talk on Ramadan and had been waiting since Christmas. It seemed unlikely that she would return to Brownies now and as this would be her last term so she made this video instead to share with her Brownie friends. She will be getting her Gold Award once Brownies resume. Please click on the link below to see Anum’s presentation.

Congratulations to Christian in P4B who has made it through to the next round of the BBC Radio 2 500 words Story writing competition! Christian wrote a story at home called ‘Sad, Sad Black Sheep’, which is a story with a very important moral. We are all very proud of Christian and we hope you enjoy reading his story.

Sad, Sad Black Sheep

There was a flock of white sheep who lived high up in the mountains. These sheep had curly white coats and each year they would win prizes at the County Show. Imagine their surprise one spring time when out popped a new lamb who wasn’t white. They had never had a black sheep in their flock before.  The white sheep made fun of the black sheep because they thought he was different. They thought he was dirty and they didn’t want to be his friend. Nobody played with him. Even his Mum and Dad didn’t like him as he didn’t look the same as them. Poor black sheep sat in the corner of the field every day, sadly chewing his grass. How he wished he had some friends. The other lambs played games together and had fun playing tig. They had fun together and didn’t go near the black sheep. The black sheep wanted to join in their games but they didn’t let him.

The weather grew cold and windy and thundery. It was raining. Poor little black sheep had no shelter and nobody to cuddle so he got wet and cold all by himself. All the white sheep huddled together, keeping each other warm. It started to snow the next day and suddenly the snow got very deep. The wind howled and the snow came down the mountain in deep snowdrifts. It was so deep that the sheep couldn’t be seen. They were struggling to keep their heads above the snow and were in danger of being suffocated.

The farmer who owned the sheep walked through the snow, up to the hills to look for them. Him and his sheepdog wanted to make sure they were okay but they couldn’t see the sheep in the heavy blizzard. The little black sheep started to jump away in the distance. The Farmer and his dog could see something that looked like a black ball jumping up and down. They hurried over to it and found the whole flock of sheep. Some of the white sheep were almost buried under the snow. The sheepdog managed to sniff them all out so the farmer could rescue them before they died. The sheepdog and the Farmer took all the sheep down off the hillside to a shelter near the farm.

The sheep were happy to get some shelter and were given food from the Farmer’s wife who warmed each of them up with a cosy towel. Some of the sheep were a bit shaky but they all baaaed their thanks to the little black sheep who saved their lives.

All the white sheep then accepted the little black sheep and started to play with him. He now had friends to play tig with and was really happy. He even won the “Best Sheep” prize at the County Show!

Don’t be mean to someone just because they look different to you.

Many thanks to Mrs McGlynn for organising and putting this message together.