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Bridge of Weir Primary Who Wants to be a Word Millionaire? By the News Team Bridge of Weir Primary loves reading and loves to celebrate those who give their time to reading. Each year we set a challenge to P4-7 pupils to see who can read a quarter, half or three quarters of a million words. This year we already have many award winners in these categories. We also have two ‘word millionaires’ and we’re not even halfway through the year! In some years pupils have become ‘multi-word millionaires’ and have read an astounding two million, three million, or even a whopping four million words! These words are counted through the Renaissance reading programme. On it, pupils can read a book then take a quiz to see if they have understood what they read. Not all books are on Renaissance, so the school encourages pupils to tell the depute head about those they’ve read at home The school will happily count that word total towards the pupil’s total amount. Maybe this will be the year YOU could be an award winner. All you have to do is read a book or enjoy an audiobook or someone reading to you – a great way to spend a wintery evening! Bridge of Weir Primary Saves Christmas! This year, unfortunately, we have had to cancel the Nativity and Christmas Celebration due to COVID-19 crowd restrictions but, fear not, we are still going to be spreading Christmas cheer. Each class will be carrying out a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths) challenge called ‘Chaos at the North Pole’. I think - by the end of it - Bridge of Weir Primary will have helped save Christmas! This will be quite different but is promising to be a lot of fun, and will create a great Christmas memory of 2020 to look back on.
Kilmacolm Playgroup It has been lovely being back at Playgroup seeing the happy, smiling children enjoying themselves. We have been very busy welcoming our new boys and girls to playgroup life and they have all settled very well. Our themes we have been exploring have been Autumn, Halloween and fireworks. Lots of fun crafts and busy tuff table sensory play has kept the children very busy. The children have also enjoyed plenty of physical play in our large hall upstairs playing on the trikes and bikes and practising our balancing skills on the stepping stones.
