There was great excitement yesterday as we made a trip to Kincorth Library to finally post our votes for the Scottish Book Awards. We have really enjoyed exploring the 3 nominated books over the last few months and it was quite difficult to choose a favourite! We will have to wait until World Book Day in March to find out the overall winner but the result in our class was very close with Mouse’s First Night at Moonlight School by Simon Puttock just coming out on top with 11 votes. Here’s how we voted in Room 3….

We hope you are all remembering about our Big Book Swap taking place at Abbotswell next week! We are keen to promote a love of reading amongst our pupils in P2 and we feel this is a great way of getting the children to share and talk about books they’ve read. Of course, it’s also a great way of the children enjoying new books at no expense!! Please encourage your child to bring in a book or magazine to school next week which they are happy to swap. (They may bring in more than one if you are feeling like having a clear out!) Our Big Swap will take place at the end of the week with P3 and hopefully all the children will find an exciting new book or magazine to take home with them and enjoy!

It turned out to be a successful week for another one of our new pupils – Daniel! It is great to see Daniel settling in well to our class and making new friends! Daniel has tried very hard with some of his tasks this week and we hope he keeps up the good work. Congratulations to Daniel on his first Pupil of the Week award at Abbotswell School!

We had a lovely afternoon this week doing some shared reading with the P7 boys and girls. We took along lots of our Katie Morag books and enjoyed sharing some of our favourite stories with our P7 friends! It was great to hear about how their Michael Morpurgo Author study was going too!

Dont we look a merry, festive bunch! Lovely to see the children in their colourful Christmas Jumpers today and great to be raising money for Save the Children – thank you very much for the donations! 

We would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and we look forward to seeing you all in 2016!

What a super afternoon we had today at our Christmas Party! We played games, showed off some fab moves on the dance floor and enjoyed some party food. The highlight of the afternoon was of course a visit from a very special visitor!!

Our Reindeer Dust Enterprise proved to be a huge success! All 200 bags were sold! We sold the majority of our bags at the Christmas Concert and the last few were sold at the Fayre on Saturday. We are so proud of the children for all their hard work….I think we may have a few potential future candidates for ‘The Apprentice’ in years to come!!

Primary 2 enjoyed a super afternoon of Winter crafts at the Duthie Park last week.  We made a class wreath, some sparkly tree decorations and had lots of fun getting messy during our bird feeder activity! Elfie enjoyed our outing too!!

Congratulations to Tolu on her Pupil of the Week Award! Tolu has worked extremely well during our Reindeer Dust Enterprise activities. She has shown good initiative and organisational skills. Well done Tolu!