Hello everyone again!

It has been such a long time since we last updated our blog but that is due to how busy we have all been over the past few weeks.  Recently we have been working hard on our latest topic old buildings and castles.  This was a great topic for us as it fitted in nicely with the school’s 100 year celebrations.  Being part of the school when it turned 100 years old is pretty cool and this got us wondering what life and school was like 100 years ago and also what it was like much further back in the past.  Some of us had also visited castles in Dundee and beyond so we decided that this was going to be our topic.

We were very lucky to borrow some wonderful active learning resources from the central library in Dundee including costumes, puppets, games, books, audio CD’s, jigsaws and posters.  In addition Mr Robertson has bought us a castle tent where we can play and read or listen to the stories on CD.  Lots of us also had things at home that were great for a castle and once we had asked for permission from our parents we brought them into class.

We also decorated a large area of the classroom to look like castle walls, designed our own shields for display in the castle’s great hall, researched castle words, made a model castle and much more.  In fact we are having so much fun with this topic that we used this as the subject for our class assembly last week.  We even learned a new dance from the Tudor era and also a song which we performed in public for the first time during the assembly.

This term we have also been very proud of ourselves as we have won a 30 minute time slot in the sunshine room twice.  We won it for the first time three weeks ago and then again this past week.  We won last week with our highest number of positive tokens in one week, an amazing 15!

Outside in the playground things are also becoming very exciting as we got to walk across the brand new astroturf area of the playground for the first time.  We have been watching for a few weeks as workers have been busy putting down astroturf on the part of our playground where the P1’s normally play at break and then a fence was put around it.  We have been discussing in class the kind of markings we want put on the grass for sports and can’t wait for the nicer weather to arrive so we can go out to use it.

That’s about it for now, but we promise not to leave it as long next time.

Mr Robertson and P2a1