Neon Disco Information

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Just a reminder of the times of tonight’s Neon discos.

6pm – 7pm     P1 – 3     £1.50

7.15pm – 8.15pm  P4-7 – £1.50

Entry to the disco will be via the P3 and P4 entrance at the front of the school.  Parents will take their children in this door and hand in their tickets with contact information on the back.  Children will then go through to the hall and parents will leave by the rear door.

Please note – ALL children, even P7, must be collected from the disco.  They will not be permitted to leave without an adult.  Ensure you are on time to pick up your child.

 

 

Early Learning Classes Disco Party (PM)

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What a fantastic time we had this afternoon at our Disco Party!  We all looked amazing in our costumes.  We danced to the Hokey Cokey and played Musical Bumps. We also showed off our groovy dance moves!

Have a look at the fun we had.

Early Learning Classes – Disco Party (AM)

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We had great fun this morning in our disco party.  We danced a conga, played Musical Bumps, boogied and sang!  We all looked amazing in our costumes.

Look at us having fun!

Colourful Clothes Day for Maggie’s Cancer Charity (9th October)

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Colourful Clothes Day

Friday 9th October 2015

The charities committee invite pupils to come to school in colourful clothes on Friday 9th October to help raise money for a local charity called Maggie’s which provides support to families affected by cancer.

All participating pupils will be asked to make a minimum donation of £1.

We hope to see a rainbow of colours on the day!

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The Fernielea Wildlife Garden

We have exciting news!

We were awarded £500 by the Aberdeen Greenspaces Board to create a wildlife garden in the school grounds.

Today P5/6 went out to see the area we plan to use.

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At the moment the area is left untouched.  We plan to add lots of features to attract wildlife such as frogs, birds, butterflies, bees and even hedgehogs!

The children came up with lots of ideas and are going to start planning what the garden will look like.

You can share your ideas with us as well.  Just hand in any ideas or plans to the ECO committee members or Mrs Walker.

There are some wonderful ideas on the RSPB website- Give Nature a Home in your Garden.  Maybe try out some of their ideas over the holidays and let us know how you get on.

https://ww2.rspb.org.uk/makeahomeforwildlife/givenatureahomeinyourgarden/  

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Primary 7 Harvest Assembly

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Today our P7 class invited the school and parents to watch their Harvest Assembly.

They shared with us what they had learned about sharing food at Harvest time.  Food comes from all around the world and not everyone has enough to eat.  The class have been learning about life in Ethiopia.

The P7s invited everyone to bring in food to be delivered to Somebody Cares this morning.  Everyone was very generous and a huge amount of food was collected.

Do We Have a Litter Problem in Fernielea School?

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This week the classes are finding out if we have a problem with litter in our school grounds.

Classes are taking it in turns to collect and weigh the litter found in our playgrounds after morning break.

Normally Mr King, our janitor, does a fantastic job of collecting litter but this week we have asked him NOT to collect any!

We hope we will then get a true idea of the litter that is left in our playground.

  • On Monday P4 collected only 150g of litter.  They felt that NO there wasn’t a litter problem but we could still do better.  They suggested making posters to remind people to put their rubbish in the bins.
  • On Tuesday P3 collected 480g of litter which was more than 3 times yesterday’s amount. Most of the litter was plastic. P3 say YES we have a litter problem! They think we should provide bins for plastic items to go into.
  • On Wednesday P6 collected a massive 1230g of litter!! This was a huge amount and this shocked the class as they thought that they weren’t going to find much litter.  They found most of the litter in corners and at the edges of the upper stages playground.  They also found quite a lot behind the bike shelter.  Maybe the wind blew the litter into these places which made it harder to find.  P6 are convinced that YES there is a litter problem.  They have suggested that litter monitors be appointed so that they can remind people to put their rubbish in a bin.  More bins are maybe needed in the school also.
  • On Friday P5 collected 300g of litter which that 12 out of 33 pupils didn’t think was a lot but some of them soon changed their mind when they felt how heavy 300g of litter was.  After feeling the weight 30 out of 33 pupils felt that it was a lot of litter to find and so YES we do have a litter problem.

Over the course of the week 2160g (2.16Kg) of litter was collected by the children.  

With all of the above evidence it is clear that although the amounts of litter collected each day aren’t huge (except for Wednesday) we definitely need to do something to reduce the litter in our school.  The Eco -committee will meet today to discuss our findings and they will create an action plan to improve our school litter problem.