China and Chinese New Year The boys in girls really enjoyed learning about China and how people celebrate Chinese New Year.  Everyone got the opportunity to take part in a dragon dance to round off our visit to China.  … Continue reading →

Welcome Back! I hope everyone had a brilliant Christmas and a Happy New Year! The children are all raring to go and have come back with lots of news about how good Santa was to them this year. Thank you … Continue reading →

Penguin Pictures The children did a fantastic job creating these Penguin Pictures.  First they drew winter snowflakes and swirls with white and grey crayons and then they added a wash (water and paint) to complete their background.  We then spoke about how we had used … Continue reading →

Library  You may have noticed that the children were issued a new library book on Tuesday, this is our new library day. Please make sure that your child brings their library book to school on a weekly basis.  If you … Continue reading →

Our class topic this term is, “Winter and Cold Lands”.  At the beginning of the term the children took part in small group discussions  and talked about what they already know about this theme and what they want to know/ find out.  … Continue reading →

This week we have been talking about kindness and being a good friend, during Circle Time we turned to a partner and said two kind things to them and then we reflected on how these made us feel.  We also … Continue reading →

In preparation for our writing this week we got to enjoy an autumn walk and we really enjoyed playing in the leaves.  The children then went on to draw and write about their experience.  Some of us wrote about building … Continue reading →

   Homework The sounds in your little blue books this week are d and e, please hand this in on the first week back. Remember to revise sounds previously taught.    Please note – There will be no reading books issued over the holidays.  … Continue reading →

Story time with P7s Here are some pictures of the boys and girls enjoying reading stories with Primary 7S (something we now do on a weekly basis).  We enjoy listening to the stories and talking to our partners about what we can see … Continue reading →

Phonics- When completing your phonics homework please try to revise sounds previously taught (s, a, t, p, i, n, r, m, d, e).  If there are any particular sounds that your child is forgetting please try and focus and reinforce … Continue reading →