Author Archives: Mrs Connor

Nursery Inspection

Our nursery had a visit from the Care Inspectorate in September.  Our inspector spent the day in the setting, talking with children, staff and parents and engaging in play opportunities.  She looked at our resources and our quality assurance processes along with our routines, policies and risk assessments that are in place to ensure everyone is kept safe.

Our setting was evaluated on: Leadership, Children play and learn and Children are supported to achieve.

We are proud to share our report with you all and encourage you to find the time to read it through.  Thank you to the parents who filled in the questionnaire that was sent out in April and to parents who spoke with our inspector in September.  Your thoughts and feedback are all taken into consideration when writing the report and evaluating our service.

     

Inspection Report Sept 2026

World Book Day at Woodlands

P7W organised a fun day to celebrate World Book Day this year.  They ran a ‘dress a potato as a book character’ competition and the results were absolutely amazing.  Children also dressed in their pyjamas, brought in their favourite book to read in school and dressed as a book character.  We read books outdoors in the sunshine and went on a scavenger hunt to find and identify book characters.  This is one of my favourite days in the school calendar.

Community Engagement in the nursery

Our youngest learners have been learning about money and have set up a shop within the setting.  What better way to extend this learning than by visiting our local community and spending some coins.  Nursery went to the local charity shops and the bakers and were delighted to hand over money and bring bang their shopping.

P1, P2 and P3 Outdoor Learning

P1, P2 and P3 engaging in Outdoor Learning, making bird feeders, creating pictures using found items and making nests for birds.

Scottish Assembly 2025

This week we held a fantastic assembly with many talented performs, sharing their Scottish poems, highland dancing and their musical skills.  Thank you to all of our children for taking part.

Primary 6 learning, Term 3

Primary 6 have been attending weekly swimming lessons at Carnoustie High School and everyone is already making progress.

In  maths P6 have been engaging in outdoor maths games to keep them both active and learning at the same time.

P3 learning, term 2

In primary 3 this term we welcomed a parent visitor into our classroom who kindly came to help us make a wonderful Christmas class calendar. We loved getting creative with all of the amazing fabrics and now have our very own calendar to use each year as we go through school – we learnt all about sustainability and enjoyed exploring all of the sparkly fabrics as well as using the sewing machines.


P1 learning, term 2

P1 have, as always, had a very busy term. Below are some photographs to show some of the activities happening in class.  The children are having  lots of fun and are learning and embedding skills along the way.

                                                                           
Showing our creativity when                                                                 Measuring and counting
decorating Christmas cards.                                                                  making reindeer food.

                                                                           
Learning to form our                                                                               Learning to use our sounds
letters correctly.                                                                                        to spell.


Ordering numbers from
largest to smallest.

Our Outdoor Learning Journey Part 7

In Primary 5 we have been learning more about newspaper reports and what is included in them. We have been learning about the terms eye witness account, reporter, direct quotes, indirect quotes and opposing opinions so we took our learning outside and planned, recorded and reviewed news reports of our own based around finding a dino egg in the school grounds. We all got involved and had different roles to play in the news report. We then gave some positive feedback to other groups after watching their recordings. For maths we had to solve a problem methodically. We had to create as many different natural faces and record them but the main aim of the challenge was to have a method of changing the face to a new one without getting confused or repeating a face we had already created. We set ourselves a success criteria to work from in order to show how successful we had been in the task. In the afternoon we took our learning outside again and used the loose parts play equipment in the park to find solutions to small challenges we set ourselves. Each group had a different challenge to solve with a pile of given resources. The groups solved the challenges in different ways and we learned the importance of communication and cooperation to ensure we were all understanding each other. It was a great day of learning.