On 26th May P6/7 and P7 held a concert for some of the older residents of the village.  A great time was had by all.

Later in the week the pupils were delighted to receive a thank you card from Mary on behalf of those who had attended the concert. 

Children should bring PE clothes this week.  Although we’ve planned specific activities during this week we continue to promote a healthy lifestyle throughout the year in the myriad of activities we do.

 Monday 1st June – Cooking with Robbie Sheriff (P7 & P6/7)

                            Keep fit with Sharon Emerson (P1-3)

Tuesday 2nd June – Mobile climbing wall funded by money from local Councillors’

                            discretionary budget (P5/6, P6/7, P7)

Wednesday 3rd June – Sports Day (If wet, Sports Day will be the following Wednesday, 10th June)

 P4-7 – 9.30 onwards; P1-3+Nursery – 1.30 onwards (NB No AM Nursery session)

Thursday 4th June – Body attack with Denise – P1-7

                             Cooking with Gail Turner – P4

Friday 5th June – Keep fit with Sharon Emerson – P4-7am

                         Cooking with Gail Turner – P5

                         Fun Run – 1.45pm – whole school (dressing up)

WALK TO SCHOOL WEEK 1ST-5TH JUNE

As part of our health promoting activities and national initiative we would like as many children as possible to participate.  Pupils who require transport to school will be able to do their ‘walk’ during lunchtime.

KEEP SCOTLAND BEAUTIFUL 1ST – 5TH JUNE

Representatives from each class will be taking part in a ‘Clean Up’ of the school grounds.

Summer Fete 6th June 1pm to 4pm 
Below is a list of stalls for the fete.  Would anyone who can help please put their name to the stall?  Please feel free to gather help from any other people willing and able!! 
(Number in brackets denotes minimum number of people needed) 

Refreshments

BBQ-.3 

Teas and coffee stall –. 

Bouncy castle and slide 4 

Sumo wrestling 2 

Entertainment display 

Sponge throwing 2 

Golf club activity 2 

Football club activity 2 

Face painting 4+ 

Bottle stall 2 

Book and toy stall 3 

Baking stall 4 

Plant stall- run by nursery? 

Second hand uniform stall 1 

Craft stall 3 

Games stalls Would primary 7 s organise these, please?

• Play your cards right

• Lucky dip

• Treasure map

• Buzzer game

Balloon Race ? 2 

Fire brigade

Police

Ian Chalmers

Plate smashing Stall

Pampered Chef Stall

These should be self sufficient.

P5 have been learning how to make smoothies as part of their topic on health.  Last week each team had to decide which fruit to put into their smoothie.  This week they got to make and taste their new drink!  Each team have also been writing a jingle to help promote their product and learning about food labels so that they can design a food label for their smoothie. 

Tell us about your smoothies, P5.

P5 and P5/6 completed their 3 week block of golf lessons. Everyone had a great time and learned lots of new skills including teamwork.  We hope Dawn (Sports Co-ordinator) will be able to visit again soon to give us some more golfing lessons.

SCHOOL SPORTS DAY-WEDNESDAY 3^RD JUNE 

The refreshment stall at the sports day last year was a great success so we will be there again this year! We will be selling teas, coffees, juice and homebaking. 

All donations of homebaking etc should be handed into the school on the Tuesday or on the day. 

Anyone help on the day will be warmly welcomed! 

Amber and Jill from the ICT Citizenship Group have been very busy creating a poster to help encourage people to leave comments on our blog!  What do you think of their work?

P5 and P5/6 have been learning golf with Dawn Fraser our Sports Co-ordinator.  We have been doing it for two weeks and we have one more week to go.

We have been doing lots of different kinds of things and we have all learned the different styles and techniques.  Occasionally, we get to go outside to do golf which we enjoy a lot.  Also when we all have been taking part we have all worked together as a team (collaboratively) which has helped in class too.

It has been very interesting and fun for the P5s becuase they didn’t get to take part last year.  On the other hand this is the second time for the P6s to try it out.

Rachael P5

What do you think of our drawings?

On Saturday I went to my first dancing competition and I got 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 7th and a runner up trophy.  I got 172 points altogether.  I get to have the trophy for one year and when I go to my next competiton I hope to get a lot again.  Jill P5

What do you think of these wonderful drawings of fruit by Connie and Becky in P4?

Last week the P1s had a very special visitor when Isla’s mum took Petty the lamb to school!

Isla had a little lamb,
Little lamb, little lamb,
Isla had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow

Everywhere that Isla went,
Isla went, Isla went,
Everywhere that Isla went
The lamb was sure to go

It followed her to school one day
School one day, school one day
It followed her to school one day
Which was against the rules.

It made the children laugh and play,
Laugh and play, laugh and play,
It made the children laugh and play
To see a lamb at school.

Forest School Review

Today we were at Forest School.  When we got there we had to do the safety check.  It is quite boring but we had to do it anyway.  Then we had to look for some creatures for our tub.  Then we set off to our camp.  On the way there I saw an old pile of wood and I thought there might be some creatures in it.

Then we lifted some bits of bark off it and we found some woodlice, dung beetle, centipede and spiders.  then we set off to camp.  At last we were there and me and Kyle light the fire and wow it was a big one.  There was a lot of smoke there.  Then I had to help Mrs Reiss make the shelter it was hard work.  Then at last it was break time.  I had been working so hard I deserved my break and we had marshmallow and chocolate chip bread.  It was lovely.  After we had to put the fire out and packed up.  Off we went back to school.  I enjoyed today because it was fun.  Lewis S

Today in Forest School we were catching bugs and putting them in a jar.  I caught two male slugs, a centipede and a female slug.  We also roasted marshmallows and chocolate chip bread over the fire.  Nathan

HELP!  PLANTS WANTED! 

Would anyone who has spare plants, cuttings and seeds from their gardens, please pass them into the school?  The school gardening club would LOVE to plant them to brighten up the playground. 

Thank you very much! 

Friends of Tarradale 

Please also visit the Parent Council page for an update on what the Playground Committee have been up to.

Our gardening group which meets on a Friday afternoon with Mrs Boardman have been very busy trying to develop the school garden.  Have you got any ideas for what you would like to see in the garden?

Kelsey and Robert from the ICT Citizenship Group went to the nursery to speak to some of the boys and girls who will be our new Primary 1s next session.

What do you do at nursery?

We play around and we play outside too.  We play football, we dress up and we play with teddies.

Do you enjoy nursery?  Yes

What do you learn at nursery?

We learn things like drawing and numbers.

Are you looking forward to go P1.  Yes