Last week was Maths Week. We did lots of fun maths activities. We made maths hats like we usually do and we did a parade on Thursday so everyone could see our creations. We mads MATHscotts to represent the maths we have been learning in our classes. We did a maths quiz in groups with people from every class and we even did some maths art. On Friday, the week ended with a Maths Bonanza full of maths games. 5th and 6th class ran stations for each class to take part in some maths games. We had great fun and we really enjoyed maths this week!

~ 3rd and 4th class

The Principal’s Prize last week went to the class with the best Harvest Door. Each class had to decorate their classroom door to celebrate Harvest. They could do whatever they liked and we have such an amazing mix of designs. Rev. Styles came in to decide the winner and he had a tough job!

Have a look through the pictures and try to guess which class won!

Last week Brian came in to talk to everyone from 1st class to 6th class about the insects and wildlife we can find in our school grounds. He knew so much about everything we found. We were given trays to go out and collect insects in. We found things like slugs, snails, hover flies, bees, spiders, millipedes, centipedes, woodlouse and many more. We learnt so much, and enjoyed our time outside learning about our local wildlife. We hope we can do more like this in the future!

~ 1st and 2nd class

5th and 6th class were lucky enough to get invited to go to the first ever European T20 Premier League Cricket Tournament in Malahide. We had to meet at Greystones Dart station very early and got the train all the way up to Malahide. We got to go to the park at Malahide Castle and unfortunately it began to rain. Luckily the rain didn’t last long and we got to go to the cricket stadium. We met a person from the Glasgow Cosmic group and he gave us free t-shirts. Some people from our class were interviewed about the game. We got to see a wicket on the very first ball and a 6 over our heads. We had a fabulous time then we had to get the dart all the way home again. Overall we had a great time and were lucky to see the match.

~ 5th & 6th class

The time has come to say goodbye to our 6th class. We did a lot of preparation for our graduation and it all went fantastically. We prepared memories from our days at St Francis, made graduation caps, learnt an end of year song and much more. Our parents and families came to watch and then we had a party after graduation. While we were in the hall for graduation, 5th class were setting up our graduation party, this years theme was Hawaii. Thankyou 5th class and congratulations to everyone in 6th class on our graduation, have a fantastic time in secondary school!!

~ 6th class

As part of our new Willow Imagination Garden, we have created a quiet and creative Reading Hut. Ian, our caretaker made us the hut out of old palettes. It looks great. Then Ms Morris painted it to protect the wood from the rain. After that Ms Nicoll drew nature pictures on the side and 1st and 2nd class painted it. We used acrylic paint, so we had to be very careful. We love how colourful and fun it looks and we can’t wait to use it!

~ 1st and 2nd class

3rd-6th class went on their school tour to Clara Lara last week. We left the school at 9:30am and got the bus down to Clara Lara. We were greeted by an instructor who showed us to our base camp for the day. We were then allowed to go and explore the park and all the different activities. There were so many different activities to choose from. There were water slides, go karts, mini golf, swings, and we could even go kayaking. 

We all met back up for lunch at 1pm and we were very lucky to even get s’mores after we had eaten our lunch! Some of us got changed after lunch as we were getting cold from being in the water. We met back up at 2:30pm, got changed and headed back to the bus.

~ 3rd and 4th Class

Every year 6th class hold a carnival for the rest of the school to raise some money for their end of school trip. This year the weather was a bit unpredictable so we were constantly checking the weather. We ran activities like guess the name of the teddy, hang tough, face painting, obstacle course, football penalty shootout and everybody’s favourite, soak a 6th classer. The day went really well but we did all get soaked at the end bringing all of the equipment back in!

~ 5th and 6th class