Month: November 2015

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Our school have been busy celebrating Our Patron Saint’s Day.  Our day started with our very talented P7 pupil piping us in to school.  We then had a whole school assembly where we reflected on the life of St Andrew.  After this we all got to do 3 different activities including:

Baking, Country Dancing, Clay Modelling, Disco, Techno Challenge, Arts and Crafts, Indoor Curling, Games Room, Team Games, Nursery and Table Tennis.

All the children mixed together and the older children were a great help with the younger ones.

As C-Jay from P3 noted, “This is my favourite school day ever!”

Please have a look at some of the fun below:

P6/7 have been very busy organising a buddy reading project for P1. This has been to link in with Book Week Scotland which runs from 23-29 November 2015.

From a selection of books our P6/7 pupils voted on reading Wanted! Ralfy Rabbit, Book Burglar by Emily Mackenzie to their buddies. In class the children practiced using their voices effectively to hold their audiences attention and forming questions which would check their listeners understanding. They also created activities that the P1 class could do to consolidate their understanding of the story and to have FUN together!

The project got under way today and it was a great success. The P6/7 loved modelling their reading skills to the wee ones and the super activities kept everyone busy. A carrot treasure hunt ended up in our new look library and we hope to see our P1s enjoying books in there too!

 

 

 

 

 

Primary 5/6 enjoyed a fascinating visit from local photographer, Phil McMenemy.  Phil came in to talk to the children about his work, and show the children some of his photographs.  He explained in detail the role that light and shadow plays when taking a good picture, explaining the properties of light, and how light can change depending on the season. The children learned that photography literally means to ‘paint with light’, and that Phil, despite being colour blind, has made a successful career from photography.  Phil’s visit proved a great success, not only underlining the children’s learning but also inspiring them that, no matter if there are barriers in your way, if you work hard, you can overcome them and succeed! Phil was christened  “The man who paints with light!”, by the P5/6 class, a nickname he says he is very pleased with!

Primary 3 have been studying Scottish Food and Farming.  As part of this topic we visited the Barony Farm.  It really brought our learning to life as we could get a much better idea of the journey milk takes from farm to our fridge.  Mr Wardrop and Mrs Jamieson were super guides and answered all our questions.

Next time you see one of us please ask us a question (even a tricky one!) to test our knowledge.

P4 have been working with Jim Thompson from QOS to learn about making good choices in our lives and about health and nutrition. We have also been learning and improving our skills in football. Its been great fun! We still have 2 weeks left and we are looking forward to improving our game and finding out more about how we can improve ourselves too.

Mairia from Active Schools has been coming into Nursery to teach the children some street dance! The children thoroughly enjoy these sessions. We have a 4 week block, ending on Thursday the 26th of November. Parents/carers are invited to stay for 10 minutes or so after dropping their child off, to see the children perform their street dance routine on the 26th, if they can make it. Above is a wee taster as to what you will see on the day!

 

Mairia from Active Schools has been coming into Nursery to teach the children some street dance! The children thoroughly enjoy these sessions. We have a 4 week block, ending on Thursday the 26th of November. Parents/carers are invited to come along at 11.40am to see the children perform their street dance routine on the 26th, if they can make it. Above is a wee taster as to what you will see on the day!

 

 

The children have enjoyed collecting objects from the woodland and displaying their objects in the form of a face. Can you guess who’s faces these pictures are?!

 

P5/6 thoroughly enjoyed showing off their knowledge at their Celebration of Learning on Thursday afternoon.

They started the afternoon retelling a chapter of the novel Peter Pan, using their shadow puppet theatres.  Then they presented power points that they had compiled, documenting their J.M Barrie Walk. The whole class then recited the poem “My Shadow” by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Back in the classroom, there were challenges galore!  The children loved testing their parents on the Multiplication Challenge table, some even made it into the 50’s Club!

Mrs Jones was the winner of the Peter Pan Quiz, which was compiled by the children – Congratulations!

We all enjoyed participating in the Tinkerbell art activity, and the adults were very responsible and didn’t get too messy!

Jack, our resident photographer for the day, managed to capture a few of the activities that we all took part in.

Thank you so much to everyone that was able to attend.