P6/7 Prepare Texts for their Spanish Friends

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Primary 6/7 have been hard at work in Spanish class, as ever.  They have been set a number of challenges and are on task to achieve every one of them with flying colours.  They are creating powerpoints for their Spanish friends to tell them about Christmas and New Year customs in Scotland.  They are looking forward to receiving similar powerpoints from Spain about the festive season there.  They want to compare and contrast customs in both countries.  They have also been preparing some personal writing in Spanish about themselves to share with their friends in Murcia, Spain.  They are also rehearsing "Silent Night" in Spanish to sing for our link school and they are learning "Silent Night" and the "Little Drummer Boy" in English to sing to us.  Here we are hard at work.

Visitors Come to See Good Practice in Education

The staff and pupils of St. James's Paisley hosted a visit this week from a Senior Delegation from the United States of America.  During their week-long visit the CoSN group chose certain schools to visit in Scotland and the Netherlands.  They were looking to see innovation and new ways of learning which are helping to transform the education of our young people.  They interviewed pupils and staff and were guided through the new way we organise our curriculum and how we have ICT embedded in everday teaching, across each stage of the school.  Their reports about the visit can be read on the CoSN blog where our school is highlighted for the care we show to our pupils.

Learning From Our Travels

One of our upper school pupils visited Spain during the October break.  Whilst exploring the Barcelona region she took some time out to buy her class a book about the area (bilingual) to let them find out more about where she was.  The local maps have also been of great interest to the pupils.  Many thanks!

International Recipe Book Out Soon

Mrs Coyle and the pupils of Primary 4/5 are busy researching traditional Scottish Christmas recipes.  They will be writing and decorating recipe sheets which will be shared with our twin school in Gdansk and their twin school in Vilnius, Lithuania.  These 2 schools have kindly offered to translate their recipes into English for us so that we can try out some of their traditional recipes.  The children have been asking their families, staff and using the internet for research.  We will have a copy of the International Christmas Cookbook in school in the New Year. (image courtesy of LTS)

P6/7 Start New International Project

The pupils of Primary 6/7 are linking with pupils of a similar age in Spanish school, CEIP Antonio de Ulloa.  This school is based in Cartagena in Spain.  We are really looking forward to linking with them.  We will be rehearsing a Christmas carol in Spanish and sending it to them and they will be doing the same with us.  We have already started to research and prepare powerpoint presentations about the Christmas Season in Scotland.  We will be translating some of our powerpoint into Spanish before sending it to our new Spanish friends.