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• Room 23

  It has been another busy week in Room 23. We continued reading our class novel Rooftoppers and created some brilliant Paris inspired pieces of art from the perspective of looking up at the Eiffel Tower. We started looking at Place Value in maths and have been reminding ourselves that every digit within a number holds its own value. In writing, we focussed on describing a character and created some excellent character descriptions using the ‘show not tell’ technique.

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• Erasmus updates ! Get prepared – British Council

  Erasmus+ Programme Find out how you can access life-changing opportunities for you, your learners and your colleagues. The Erasmus+ programme provides grants for international placements and partnership projects. Applications open in November 2026 so it’s the ideal time to start your planning now. This opportunity is open to any organisations across the Community Learning & Development sector with various workstreams to consider applying under. The British Council recently did an input at the Education Scotland ESOL network and Adult Literacy network. We recorded the presentation to share with a wider audience so please find the link here.  The British Council …

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• Adult Literacy – International Projects for Improvement!

  Education Scotland recently hosted a webinar highlighting two projects funded through the Scottish Education Exchange Programme (SEEP). Both projects were delivered by CLD adult literacy teams and the session was recorded on Youtube. Link is here. These projects exemplify the opportunity of applying for funding to link up with partners internationally to share learning and highlight the longer term outcomes that can be achieved through inspiring and learning from practice outwith Scotland, to improve learning for communities in Scotland. Details of the two projects are here: Glasgow Clyde College & Glasgow Life – Literacy for Life: Unlocking Potential The project is …

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• Room 11’s Blog

  Welcome to room 11’s 2nd blog.   In Literacy, P3 have been consolidating previously learned phonemes including ‘igh’ and in P4 they have been learning new common words like ‘breakfast’. In Maths P3 have been learning about 1s, 10s and 100s, P4 have been learning how to partition numbers to 1000.   In play, we have been using our play skills such as creativity and junk modeling.   In P.E we have been learning how to play What’s the Time Mr Wolf and Pizza Maker. How you would play is someone would be in the middle and everyone else would …

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• Room 7 04.09.2026

  This week, Room 7 were revising their knowledge of identifying 2D shapes and their properties. We used a variety of materials to help us construct these shapes and worked with our peers to discuss and record their properties. To extend our learning, we investigated the properties of some new 2D shapes – the rhombus, heptagon, octagon and trapezoid. Take a look at our learning in action…    

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• Room 1 – 4.9.26

  This week in Room 1: – we have been working on numbers up to 5, forming them and identifying! Have a go at our fun dice and counters game with someone at home, you could use pasta if you don’t have any counters 😄 – we have been learning about alliteration, check this superstar out who matched the pictures that’s begin with the same sound. – we learnt about life on a farm through our focus book ‘A Squash and a Squeeze’ Next week the Evening Times will be in to take a picture of primary 1 on Friday 11th. …

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