Braemar School and Nursery

What a busy few days we’ve had! Lots of fun and lots of learning, making new friends and getting ready for the term ahead. We welcomed Vasi, Brian and Alexis into the school this week. Our pupils helped the new children to feel at home in their new class, along with helping the new Primary 1 pupils settle in.

Our Assembly this morning had some ‘interesting’ visitors from Nursery. Some of the children came along with their stick insects and explained how they look after them. Well done Charlotte, you explained really well. I hope the stick insects enjoy their weekend with you!

All of the children have chosen how they would like to help support our school community, by putting their names down for our new committees which will meet for the first time on Monday. Our Pupil Council, Digital Leaders and Eco Committee will work on a number of exciting projects over the coming months. Watch this space for further information!

Mrs Maclean

We worked well together to find our shapes in the playground and then attempted to make our shape from natural materials! This was easier for some than others but we didn’t give up.  We are learning to identify, name and describe 3D and 2D shapes.

p1-3 are enjoying their re vamped classroom with lots of opportunities for reading choice and play-based learning.

P4-6 visited Orlando at his studio and found out about his work. Then they created landscape paintings of their own.

Yesterday Ben (Mar Lodge Ranger) came to school and helped to explain how we could use identification keys to identify animals and minibeasts. We then went out into the playground and had a look in some micro-habitats to see what we could find there!

Primary 1-3 have been learning all about the life-cycle of a butterfly and using their ‘good looking’ and questioning skills to find out all about caterpillars. They created their own models of caterpillars from plasticine and added detail like the segments of the caterpillars, their ‘true’ legs and false legs.

Just over 2 weeks after their arrival the caterpillar had grown from 7mm to 4cm and changed into a chrysalis.

We wait patiently now for the metamorphosis into butterflies and hope that this happens before the summer holidays.

• As a learner,I think I am good at vocabulary because I like reading dictionaries and learning new words.
•    My interests are climbing and reading adventures books .My qualities are funny and nice.
• I like finding information in books, and working in a team.

I have been in Scotland for one week and a half, and I am having a great time here!

By Adele