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.

Anyone wishing to order a copy of the fantastic production of ‘Treasure Island’ performed by our very own budding actors in P4-7, should place their orders as soon as possible at the school office.

What Arrrrrrrr you waiting for!!

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

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! 

Well ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. . . What a fantastic show you all out on at the end of the Easter Term.

The Charades Theatre Company have been in touch and they have written a BLOG and added photographs to their website on the amazing show that YOU all produced. Click on the link below to see what the Charades Company though of your performances

http://charadestheatre.blogspot.co.uk/

http://www.charadestheatre.co.uk/

MORE PHOTOS TO FOLLOW. . .

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

Alongside the books that the children are getting experiences of through RWInc and Accelerated Reader there are certain authors and novels that pupils should also be experiencing throughout their primary years.

We are making a plea to all children and parents for any spare copies of the following books to be handed into the school and shared between classes. These books will support the books within RWInc and give the pupils another context in which to apply their reading skills.

Please find attached the list of books.

Stories for Storytime 

Thank you

Wow! What a fantastic evening we had last night at the ‘Reading Open Evening’ and the Nursery and P1 ‘Reading afternoon’ today for parents and pupils.

Pupils and parents took part in reading lessons in the classrooms focusing on the skills of reading and then we gathered in the gym hall for a Pirate writing session.

The stories that were being planned and created were amazing. Fantastical characters, interesting plots and an array of pirate pictures and illustrations. One thing was clear and that was that we have some authors and illustrators in the making!

Thank you to all who came along to support our little publishers and for those who took part in and organsied the raffle and the book swap.

Here are a few of the photographs from the evening and afternoon sessions.