Today we made chocolate sweets. When have been reading Charlie and the Chocolate factory and decided to turn the classroom into a chocolate inventing room and design and make our own special chocolates. We had to write a set of instructions to make the sweets, then follow each step carefully. The best part was eating the sweets at the end. We even made Mrs MacPhail and Mrs Lowden one. They tasted marvoulous, delicious, scrumptious, out of this world!
This group of children made me extremely proud making their sacrament of recolonisation. Although it was a nervous experience, there were smiles all around by the end. We will now begin working toward Holy Communion learning prayers, responses and recording the experience in our Faith Journal books.
We enjoyed dressing as our favourite book characters on World Book day. Throughout the week we listened to special visitors reading in class,we made books, wrote and listened to stories and also played book bingo.
This term we have been reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We have completed a number of literacy and expressive arts activities. Today we invented sweets and wrote about the ingredients. We then gave them crazy and wonderful names. Then we painted them to look like giant lolly pops. We just wish we were able to really eat them!
We have had many visitors reading in classes this week to promote the importance of reading and to also celebrate World book day. The children love having stories read to them and today Mrs Foote, chair of the schools PTA read to P3.
Today P3 held a book sale as part of World book day activities which have been running this week. They collected the books, made posters to advertise the sale, set the sale up and very fantastic at selling the books. The sale was a huge success and managed to make £61! Well done P3 an amazing achievement and lots of fun 📚. We are going to use the money made to buy some new books for using during literacy time.
Today we went on a 3D shape hunt around the class. Together with a learning partner we describes the characteristics of the shapes. We then drew nets of cubes and constructed them into 3D shapes. 
We were joined by a special visitor durning this weeks sacramental group preparation. Mgr. McBride came to talk about the symbols in baptism. The children shared stories about their baptism and even had photographs of their special day. The children have been given prayers to learn at home in preparation for their Rite of Reconsilation in March.
Together with learning partners, we have been creating our own story animations using Pivot Animator and Paint tool. The story is set on the scene of the BFG by Roald Dhal which we have been reading in class. The scene is when Sophie the little girl is hiding from Bloodbottler (an evil giant) who is trying to eat her. The BFG is trying to distract Bloodbottler from finding Sophie. We will be working further on these animations in the next few weeks and will share our finished animations.
Over the last few weeks p4/5 have been developing their Badminton skills. They have been learning the different kinds of shots and how to apply them in a game. Today using the learning pit the children self-assessed their ability to hit effectively.
