What a lovely, busy few weeks we have had settling into Reception and getting to know one another. The children have been brilliant at waving goodbye to their mums, dads, grannies and grandads in the morning and coming into the classroom. They have been learning the...
Although things are a little different this year, Y6 still wanted to share in the traditional Easter egg hunt with their buddies in Reception class. So, each member of Y6 carefully decorated an egg with their buddy’s name on it. They then hid these in the Reception...
It is so lovely to have everyone back learning and playing together again in Reception. We have missed seeing all our friends so much. Our topic this half term is New Life / Spring. We have set up a vets area in our classroom and the children are enjoying role playing...
We have enjoyed our Forest School sessions this term. Through our Forest School sessions the children develop their personal, social and emotional skills. The children have had fun working together, collecting autumn leaves, building dens, finding fairies and bugs and...
We set a challenge to explore our outdoor area around our school and find as many 2D shapes as we could. Look at all the shapes we found, so fantastic! The children were great at working together and finding lots of shapes and recording the shapes they found. ...
We enjoy working together and playing together in Reception. We are all friends together in Reception and enjoy helping each other. We have been working hard learning our sounds. We have been thinking about initial sounds in words and we have been practising...
Welcome to St. Columba’s RC Primary School. We are delighted that you and your child will be joining us in September. Under normal circumstances, we would be writing to invite you to a number of events and meetings across the summer term. However, due to the current...
Linked to our Religious topics of 'Celebrating' and 'Gathering' this term, the Reception children enjoyed a visit to St. Columba's church. Two of our parish members Mrs Dodds and Mr Finlay helped us on our visit. Mr Finlay drove the children to the church in the...
Reception had a wonderful ‘Stay and Play’ session today! However, it was a long morning waiting for everyone to arrive with the children asking from 9.10am “Are the mams and dads coming now?” We are very thankful to all of the mams, dads and grandparents who were able...
Reception enjoyed an afternoon working with magnets. They explored different materials and objects to see which are magnetic. "We need metal things to make it stick." "This plastic box doesn't lift up, it isn't magnetic." The children also had fun designing and making...
Our topic in Religious Education is 'Belonging' and in Reception and Nursery we having been talking and finding out about Baptism. The children enjoyed joining together and acting out a Baptism in the school hall. We discussed the signs and symbols of Baptism. The...
It was "RE in Action Week" this week in Y6 with two big events. On Thursday it was the Buddy Assembly where Year 6 pupils formally welcome the new starters in Reception to be a part of our school family. On Friday it was the annual CAFOD Harvest Fast Day...