The Victorian Classroom

Our Primary 4 and 6 classes visited Scotland Street School Museum today and had a very strict Victorian teacher who didn't smile much!  She wore along black skirt, a white blouse and had her grey hair scraped back into a bun.  They wrote with ink pens, used blotting paper, wrote on slates and had a full Victorian style lesson.  They then toured the museum looking at life in Victorian times.  They all really enjoyed their trip.      By the media team

P7 Rotary Quiz

P7 recently completed in the annual Rotary quiz and the team consisted of four of our primary 7s.  They went through six gruelling  rounds with ten questions in each. You got two points for each questions you got correct. After a tough competition we eventually won and took first place in the local heat, with Bridge of Weir Primary finishing a close second.  Our team will now go through to the National Finals and compete again against other teams from around Scotland.  Well done - we're proud of you!. By Jamie Aitken

P6 Tennis Competition

 On the 21st of March primary 6 went down to the Strathgryffe Tennis and Squash club to compete in a tennis competition against many other schools from Renfrewshire.  Before this they had been getting tennis lessons in school from Derek Brown, Head coach of Strathgryffe and Caitlin Inglis.  Sadly for St.Fillans, Houston Primary came first but we still came second.  We played really well on the day and are pleased with our performance.   By Kate Dorrian

ST.Mirren Football Club

On the 9th of March Steven Thompson and Chris Smith from St.Mirren came in with the Paisley Panda so that we could wish them some good luck in the Scottish League Cup final on Sunday. They brought the Cup with them.

 They were also signing autographs for anyone that wanted them.  We're pleased to say St Mirren went on to win the cup  - congratulations from all at St Fillan's and thank you for coming in to see us.  By Kate and Jamie.

WORLD BOOK DAY!!!

On the 7th  March it was World Book Day. We dressed up as our  favourite book characters . Straight after playtime we had a catwalk to show off our awesome costumes.   In 3rd place was Carly McCallum (P4),  in 2nd place was Chloe Anderson (P6) and the overall winner was Eva Horne from P2.  Each won an Easter Egg and Eva also won £10 book vouchers. 

Thanks to parents for kindly donating the prizes and for organising the competition with our Library Committee.  Well done to the judges from the Library Committee and to all who dressed up. 
A book swap was also done in each class which we all enjoyed. By Jamie Aitken

P5 Topic

P5's topic is Fairtrade. We have made posters, presentations, leaflets and we wrote persuasive writing to ask people to buy Fairtrade products. Also we performed a role play at assembly.  We also persuaded others to buy Fairtrade. We have been looking at the farmers who plant all the products and what they get paid.  Our class and Mrs. Mckay has a Fairtrade stall at our Community Cafe so you can buy some Fairtrade products and don't forget about chocolate Friday!!!

P4 topic

In class p4's topic is Victorians and we are going on a school trip to  Scotland-street-school in Glasgow.  We are really looking forward to it. We have been learning about streets in the Victorian era. We have also been learning about Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. We all really enjoying this topic.

By Niamh Horton

Football Fun Day

On the 28th of February 2013 every class wore their P.E kit to school to take part in an event called Football Fun day. It was organised by our Pupil Council.  Everyone also got to take part in an obstacle course and learn football skills.That day the Pupil Council had a bake sale at play time and everyone got to go in and buy something. Throughout the past fortnight the Pupil Council had organised  mini competitions, one was guess the teddy's birthday and that was £1 per entry and you could design a football strip and that was 50p. All the money we raised is going to buy new football goals for our playground! We all really enjoyed football fun day. Well done to Pupil Council and Mrs.Sim!!!

By

 Katie Colligan 

Vikings in P3/4!!

P3/4 went to Vikingar for their school trip.  P3/4 learned about what their life was like if you were a viking and went inside a viking house!  P3/4 also learned  all the viking God's names.  By Max & Michael.

Primary 1 Classroom

We have enjoyed our Robert Burns work. We painted pictures of him.

By Ryan S, Elisa, Paul & Saoirse (photo taken by P1 too)

P4s maths in measure

P4 are doing measure in maths.On the 28th of February we measured our own wire for our metal wire sculptures.  We got 7 metres 25 cm each of the plain wire and had to measure out 50cm of each of the coloured wires.  On the 7th of March we are making our metal sculptures.  We are using what we learned on our visit to see Andy Scott to help us.  We are looking forward to working with wire.  by Adam G & Max.

CASTLES!

During p2's castle topic they painted a huge wooden castle. They have been pretending to be knights on the computer as well as making castle name-tags. In addition to this p2 have been writing stories about knights & princesses. They are also going to bring in costumes to play in then wooden castle. P2 are also going on a school trip to Stirling Castle. Anna said she's looking forward to going inside the castle & Jamie says the trip is going to be really fun.
By Ryan S, Anna & Jamie

                                                                          

Euro quiz

P6 chose 5 people to go to a euro quiz.They will get a number of euro questions.They will also be competeing with other schools.