St Martin's Primary School

Fiona O’Donnell MP joined children from St Martin’s RC Primary School at their Water Aid Showcase last week, to learn more about the project the whole school has been working on.

Ms O’Donnell was shown the wonderful work that the school and the nursery have been doing on the activities around the world undertaken by the international development charity Water Aid.

Each class in the school has been learning about a specific country and the work that Water Aid does there.  The MP was taken to each classroom where the children told her what they had learned about countries such as Nigeria, India, Ghana and Malawi.

The school also held a Macmillan Coffee morning in the dining hall, with Fairtrade tea and coffee sourced by P2 pupils.  There was also some art work on sale in each of the classrooms and all of the money collected will be donated to Water Aid.

Speaking after her visit, Fiona O’Donnell MP said:

“I want to thank all the pupils and staff at St Martin’s for inviting me to come and see their Water Aid showcase.  It was clear they had put a huge amount of effort into the project and had been very creative in the way they displayed what they had learnt about Water Aid’s work. But it was also obvious that they had taken on board the important message about the vital need to increase access to clean water and sanitation in many parts of the world.

“Time and time again, schools in East Lothian are leading the way when it comes to education about development issues and taking practical action to help people in need in other countries.  Giving children and young people the opportunity to learn about these issues and the problems their peers in developing nations experience, is really valuable and gives them much to think about.”

Congratulations to all pupils who took part in the Readathon 2013 this year. You have raised a whopping £335.00.

The money raised will help:

CLIC Sargent: CLIC Sargent is the UK’s leading cancer charity for children and young people, providing care and support for them and their families from diagnosis, during treatment and beyond.

Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity: This charity was set up by Roald Dahl’s widow in 1990. It specialises in helping children with serious neurological or blood conditions, providing children’s nurses, equipment, carers and toys, working with hospitals and care organisations or directly with patients.

Come and see some of the wonderful work that the School and the Nursery have been up to. They are all been learning about a specific country and that countries involvment with Water Aid.

You will be whisked away on a journey through countries such as Nigeria, India, Ghana and Malawi. You will be given a passport on entry to the school. You can drop in anytime between 9:00 and 10:30am with a little pit stop at our Macmillan Coffee morning in the dining hall. All of our tea and coffee as been sourced by P2 and is Fairtrade.

There will also be some art work for sale in each of the classrooms and all money collected will be donated to Water Aid.

Come along and enjoy the fun.

St Martin’s Parent Council are hosting a Zumbathon at the school this Saturday the 27th of April. All pupil’s in the school are invited to attend with a supervising adult. Each child/adult should be sponsored to take part in the Zumbathon. Primary 1-4 pupil’s Zumbathon starts at 11am-12:00 and Primary 5-7 pupil’s Zumbathon starts at 12:00-1pm.

We look forward to seeing you all there.

Miss Mitchell

LI: I can create a project about the Egyptians.

DUE Wednesday the 22nd of May 2013

Success Criteria:  

1. Written OR Spoken Presentation OR Power Point Presentation.
2. Must include facts that you have learned in class time and home time. Here are some possible information ideas.

• -          Map of Egypt
• -          The River Nile
• -          Tutankhamun
• -          Egyptian Gods
• -          Egypt now a days

1. Must include illustrations.
2. Use primary (books) and secondary sources (websites) of information

 Be as creative as you can with your mini topic. You can work individually, in pairs or in groups of 3.

Happy fact finding!

During Lent all of the classes had a WEE BOX in their classroom so that any spare pennies could be given to SCIAF to help people in other countries who are less fortunate than us. Those pennies added up into pounds!!!  When the money was counted there was £66.39 but then the next day some more money was donated and we then had a grand total of £70.30. We  have helped people like the family on the boxes to have a better life. Well done everybody! 

Congratulations! St Martin’s RC Primary School has successfully achieved the UNICEF UK Recognition of Commitment (ROC) for our Rights Respecting School work.

Well done on completing the homework from last week

Reading: The readathon finishes on WEDNESDAY. Please bring in your Sponser forms ASAP.
RWInc : practice your Green and red words EVERY NIGHT.
AR. : Continue reading your AR book. Complete quizzes and vocabulary quiz in class
Geography/Social Studies: Find as much information as you can about farms in East LOthian.
Collect:
-facts
-leaflets
-maps
-pictures
-information

We will use this information when we come back after the holidays to see what farms Mr and MRs Fox would have visited in East LOthian and we will be measuring the distances between these farms for Mr Fox and his family.

Enjoy the holidays and keep practising your mental maths subtraction within 50.

Primary 3 Homework deadline 18.03.13

Reading: Continue to read the book on your http://www.readathon.org/ list.

Grammar: Apostrophes OR an/an sheet

Maths: Subtraction sheet

ICT: Continue to add comments to the website on class posts.

In class today we have been presenting our favourite book characters in our SUPER PUPPET SHOW. Everyone made a puppet and spoke to the class about their favourtite author, book and characters. We added a lot of detail to our puppets by using art and crafts materials.

My favourite puppet is Pinoccio. Marcis

My favourite puppet is Melissa from ‘The Worst Thing about my Sister.’ Morgan

My favourite puppet was Gandalf the Great. Cameron