Return to Riverbank

Following a false start due to flooding, Team Riverbank is up and running again and we’re feeling like we’ve never been away!

After weeks of waiting and following all the instructions for preparing the school for reopening, it all came to nought when the thunder and lightning struck! I felt so sorry for our class teachers who had prepared their classes, beautifully, only for us to discover the fallen roof tiles and soaking wet corridors and carpets.

It was all hands to the pumps to get the classes up and running again for our pupils. A special thank you must go to the ACC workers who assessed the damage and then, ultimately, worked all day Thursday and Friday to ensure we could open on the Monday.

It was very disappointing that we could not provide our pupils with their full day induction but the pupils did very well in taking in the new arrangements for being in school and travelling around inside Riverbank.

Our P4-7 parents are adjusting to not being allowed in the playground and our Nursery and P1-3 parents are becoming accustomed to the one way system which works its way around the school.

Many other changes have happened due to Covid 19. It’s really tricky having to conduct all our meetings with parents and partners, virtually. And, whilst we can’t invite visitors into school, at the moment, we hope that parents and carers will contact us by email or telephone if they have any concerns or things they may wish to discuss with us.

Now that we’re back, I have received some lovely photographs of pupils at work, back in the classroom.

In the slideshow above we can see some of Mrs Arqued’s and Miss Howarth’s pupils from Primary 1-2 A working hard and covering several different areas of the school curriculum. These photographs cover the week commencing Monday 24th August.

Miss Howarth and Mrs Arqued sent me some photgraphs of the work the children carried out more recently. I have placed them in the slideshow below.

The children have made lots of use of the outdoors. Some of the work they have carried out included using things they have found in the school grounds to make something and describe it. The children showed great imagination; from the young man who found some leaves and pretended they were a kite which he went on to fly, to the chap with the twig and leaves which became a chicken kebab.

The children also made, what looked to me like some lovely mobiles, again with natural things they found in the school rounds.

I’m sure we’ll see lots more from P1-2A in the weeks ahead!

Miss Coyle’s Primary 3C class have spent a lot of time working on their maths. She sent me some photographs of the work they had carried out.

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Miss Littler’s P4L class have been working on their class charter; the set of class rules that the children and teacher put together.

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This lovely charter shows what the children feel would make a perfect pupil and what makes a terrific teacher. Their charter was designed round the lovely animated movie Up!

I hope, in the weeks ahead that we will be able to see further class charters and see the themes the children have chosen.

This is just a small taste of what’s being going on at Riverbank since we’ve returned to school.