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St. Margaret's Primary School and Nursery Class |
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ST. MARGARET'S PRIMARY SCHOOL
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Buchanan StreetJohnstonePA5 8RYTel: 01505 320520email: stmargaretsenquiries@renfrewshire.gov.uk Welcome to the website for St. Margaret's Primary School, we hope you enjoy finding out more about our school and what is happening throughout the school year. In St. Margaret's we encourage children to achieve their potential in all areas of the curriculum, by providing Learning and Teaching of the highest standard, and a curriculum which encompasses all national and local advice.St Margaret's Primary School is situated in Johnstone, Renfrewshire. The feeder secondary school is St Benedict's High School in Linwood and the schools have formed good links with each other. The school also enjoys good links with local primaries and in the local community. |
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St Margaret's Primary School Morning Club will change from 8.15am to 8.30am with effect from Monday 5th February 2018.
The doors (Infant doors) to Breakfast club will open at 8.30 am and close by 8.35am. Entry via Main Entrance doors is not permitted after this time.
Wednesday 3rd October 2018
P1 Photograph will be published in the Johnstone Gazette
P7 Open Evening at St Benedict's High School
7pm - 8.30pm
Friday 5th October 2018
P7 Vocation Mass at St Mirin Cathedral
Wednesday 10th October 2018
P1 , P1/2, P2 visit to Riverside Museum
October Break
Monday 15th - Friday 19th October 2018
Monday 22nd October - Inservice Day
Tuesday 30th October 2018
Hallowe'en Disco
P1-P3 6 - 7pm
P4/7 7.15 - 8.45pm
Tickets £2.00 available from classroom
Thursday 1st November 2018
Whole school Flu Vaccination
Tuesday 6th November 2018
Rag Bag Collection
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Eco Schools Scotland
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We are proud to be an Eco School having gained our second flag in the session of 2017-18.
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H&WB, Physical Education and Sport |
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Pupil Equity Funding has helped immensely with our Health & Wellbeing Curriculum. We have used a large percentage of our PEF to employ Mr Tollan, he is a qualified PE teacher at both Primary and Secondary level. He has had a great impact on the place of sport within the school- children are enjoying it more, participating more and competing more. They have been exposed to a wider range of sports and skills. A lot of children are reporting that they are more health conscious and feel fitter. Some children have had the opportunity to watch sport - we recently visited Hampden to watch the Scotland national team take on Belgium.
At the end of last session Mr Tollan applied for a SportScotland Silver School Sports Award, we were delighted to be successful in schieving this. This year we are all going for gold!
All of our work in improving PE is part of our drive to improve children's health and wellbeing and it complements our other H&WB priorities such as YouthMindfulness and PAThS. |
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We have very close links with St. Margaret's Church in Graham Street, which is next to the school.
On the first Friday of each month all children in the school go to Mass in the parish. We are very active participants at Mass with children from Primary 4- Primary 7 participating by reading and taking forward the gifts at the Offertory Procession.
Being close to the church is very important to us. We visit regularly and a lot of our Sacramental preparation takes place within the church so that our pupils understand the importance of their faith.
Fr Paul is a regular and very welcome visitor to our school.
As a school we are proud to have St Margaret of Scotland as our patron saint. We are a very charitable school helping those in our own community as well as others from across the world.
Like St Margaret, our purse always has something in it for those in more need than we are. |
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We had a lot of fun during the first ever Maths Week Scotland. In our flier home to parents we told you that we were concentrating on 3 areas. This is how we got on: Sumdog- Everybody in school was encouraged to participate in Sumdog’s competition. This promoted digital learning and we found many pupils participated from home too. Roald Dahl Day- everyone relates Roald Dahl to literacy but we used his stories as a focus for numeracy. We looked at The BFG, Enormous Crocodile, Esio Trot, James and the Giant Peach, Revolting Rhymes and, of course, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. There was a strong focus on active learning. We explored: measure; weight; problem solving; area perimeter and volume; 3D shape; scale; information handling; pattern; symmetry; number stories; odds and evens; cardinal and ordinal numbers; tens and units; numbers before, after and in between. P7 mapped and measured routes of chocolate and cocoa from around the world to Johnstone. STEM Challenges- we encourage children to recognise that numeracy is found across the curriculum. Willy Wonka and his chief Oompah Loompah visited and they delivered a STEM challenge to each class. P1 & 1/2 had to make an enormous crocodile < and > function machine and some foldable crocodiles to help them learn numbers to 10 and 20. P2 had to put their measuring skills to good use and make some magic peppermint puddles and spinning eggs. P3 had to stack jelly cubes and make raisins dance. P4 had to create a gobstopper dispenser so had to use their knowledge of angles to get it to run smoothly. P5 had to build a bridge to cross the chocolate river that could hold a 250g weight. P5/6 had to make a boat that would float and could be powered using a chemical reaction and P7 had to calculate the speed of light from melting chocolate in the microwave as well as design a new balloon powered elevator for Willy Wonka. Click on Willy Wonka and his Chief Oompah Loompah to see our photo slideshow. Visit our class pages to find out about all of our fantastic experiences during Maths Week- you can see our STEM challenges and Roald Dahl maths work. |
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There is a 'Morning Club' in St Margaret's. The children can come along and play some games, get involved in some healthy sports activities and have a healthy breakfast, the club is not a drop in service. This is a free club, open to everyone from Primary 1 -Primary 7. From Monday 5th February please note the infant doors open at 8.30am and close at 8.35am. NO entry is permitted after this time. |
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'Golden Tickets'. A different pupil will be chosen each week who has caught the teachers attention for doing something good. One child from each class will receive a Golden Ticket via the school post. This invites them to sit at the Golden Table on Friday for lunch. We hope every child in the school will get this opportunity at least once in the school year.
To make it a treat for the children we will provide juice, cakes and funsize bars. We know we
should be promoting healthy eating however I hope you will agree once or twice per year will not do much harm.
If you do not wish your child to eat any of the treats please contact the school. |
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These lunch menus are served in all schools across Renfrewshire and are the most up to date options. Any changes to lunch menus will be sent out to parents before meal changes are implemented. Please click on above image to view lunch menus. |
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