Inter schools Badminton tournament

Eight primary 7s recently went to an inter-schools  badminton tournament.They travelled to Barrhead sports centre to play.The tournament included 7 schools both from Renfrewshire and East renfrewshire, everyone played well but at the end of the day Houston primary were crowned champions.Everyone involved seemed to enjoy the tournament.St.Fillans will later play in the Renfrewshire tournament some time next year.Thanks to Donnie wood our local school sports  co-ordinator who took us to and from Barrhead.

Local Village Study

Pupils from Primary 3/4 concluded their Local Study topic by presenting to the whole school at a recent assembly.  Their favourite part of their village walk was when Rev. Donald Campbell allowed them all to take turns at ringing the church bell.  They thoroughly enjoyed learning more about their local community, together with their friends in Primary 4. 

George Wyllie Art Project

Primary 4 have been hard at work on our art project with Mrs Nicholson every Wednesday.  As well as looking at the work of Scottish sculptor George Wyllie we have been writing about him and photographing our work.  We were invited to submit a paper boat to join the exhibition to take place later this month in the Mitchell Library, Glasgow.  Each pupil was invited to make a boat of their choice and Mrs Munro and Mrs Sim were invited in to choose the winning boat to represent our class and local community.  Our winning boat here on the left was chosen as it was sturdy and very strong.  The boat was collected before the holidays to be displayed in the George Wyllie exhibition, together with boats from other schools around Scotland.  Well done!

Matthew from our class spent the October holidays being the "roving reporter" for this national project.  He visited many of George's sculptures and reported online on them via the Why?sman Project's facebook page.  His Mum helped him email his reports in each day and the organisers posted them on the project page.  You can see his posts on the "Friends of George Wyllie" facebook page (pupils should be supervised by adults on this site if viewing).

The boats from the rest of the class will join Adam's boat on Hogmanay as they all sail down the Clyde at the Festival's family event.  In the meantime we have another exciting event we're trying to arrange to do with our work on George Wyllie - more details to follow.

Green Day !!!

On Friday 25th May we had a Green Day, pupils throughout the school were challenged to make a costume out of recycled materials which they would show on a catwalk and our judges had a tough job of chosing two winners from P1-3 and P4-7.The winners were Aaron Jones and Robyn Welsh from primary 1-3 and from 4-7 we had Mia Trolan and Daniel Wishart.We also had great hosts from Primary six and seven. We all had to wear green as it is the colour you associate with eco. We raisied £59.50 to go towards our gardening supply.
Later in the day children were outside with their  teachers tidying up the school garden where we had tremendous fun!

 

Space Presentation

Primary 4 have been learning all about space. We love this topic, we have learned alot about the solar system. During talking and listenting activities we worked together in our groups to prepare a presentation about our home planet. We then went onto report all our new knowledge back to our class mates, using posters and cue cards that we made.