Month: November 2020

On Tuesday the P2 and P3 classes enjoyed a fabulous afternoon in the woodlands (in their separate classes) with the Scots author Susi Briggs.
The P3’s were following up their previous virtual ‘Nip Nebs glossary’ learning with Susi – and seemed to thoroughly enjoy meeting her after all their hard work during lockdown. The P2’s were being introduced to Susi’s enchanting stories for the first time, and also relished hearing the sounds of different Scots  words.
First,  Susi played the new audio book of Nip Nebs, read by the well known actor Gary Lewis, and accompanied by the hauntingly beautiful music  composed by Alan McClure, it was made extra special listening to it in the woods.
Then Susi read the sequel, Nip Nebs and the last Berry  to the children, and after that the children set off to find some mischevious  pixies who had run off in the woods – some very excited ‘pixie pointing ‘ ensued! 🤣🤣
Each pixie had a Scots word attached to them, and once they were all found, Susi and the children figured out what each word meant.
Tuesday was a lovely example of the children enjoying exploring Scots Language – super day! 🥰 Continue reading “Nip Nebbery, pixie pointing and listening lugs 😀😀”

Today’s problem solving in Primary 3 was a little bit different.  We were challenged to create a paper aeroplane that would hit a target at a distance of 3 metres.  We had several attempts and made changes to our designs and throwing techniques to see what worked best.  Unfortunately, no one hit the target this week but we had some very near misses.  We decided we would like to try this activity again next week to see if anyone can manage to hit the target.

Last week we had a P6 v P7 Lacrosse Challenge.  It was great fun and we hope to do it again in the future.  by Yvie

Here are some photos from St Andrew’s Primary playground.

We hope you enjoy them. by  Maria and Alexandra.

Last Friday Primary 3 worked on pattern problems using dominoes. They had to work together and tried different solutions. Here are some pictures of them. By  Yvie  🙂

What a busy day P3 have had outdoors on this lovely dry day!  This morning we went to the woodland area to plan our big writing using a story mountain planning grid.  The stories we then created when we came back to class were fantastic.  After break we headed back to the woods to collect natural materials for our afternoon session.

In the afternoon we worked together to create art work using natural resources.  We also calculated the area of leaves in square centimetres.  Finally, we used sticks, stones, leaves and pinecones to create our own sums.

We had loads of fresh air and I think all the children and definitely the teacher will sleep well tonight!