Author: Miss Cullen

P7 have been working on their fitness levels over the last couple of weeks. We have been recording how many times we can do 1 activitity/exercise in 1 minute and recorded our scores. Each week we have been trying to set our own personal goals and have achieved many of them.

P2 enjoyed world book day this year. We had a visit from P5 who came and shared their favourite books with us and helped us with our reading. We had a parade of costumes in the hall which was fun. We also had an afternoon looking at illustrations. We read The Cat in the Hat and had a go at trying some of our own illustrations in our Big Draw!

P2 have been following instructions and writing our own. We know we need to be bossy with our words and they need to be clear to read. Last week we wrote our own instructions to make Krispie Cakes and then we followed the instructions to make them! Thankfully the instructions we followed were clear to read and told us how to do it.

 

P2 went to the forest to order and form numbers correctly.

On Friday, P2 travelled to Cumnock to the Dumfries House Estate. They have a super cool water and sand park which we had great fun exploring. We were in 2 groups, we went bug hunting and learned about forces and friction and made our own rockets which we got to launch.

Bibi -‘ We all had to work together to get the water moving, it was so cool!’

Annabel – ‘We were having so much fun playing we didn’t even know we were learning.’

Rory -‘ We had to share with each other and it was nice playing together.’

 

   

On Wednesday Gemma was presented with the Runner Up Award for Dumfries Civic Pride Award. She came 2nd out of all the Primary 1 and Primary 2 entries (450 of them). Well Done Gemma!!

Today Kendall from Tesco came in to visit us with lots of fruit for healthy snack. We have been learning about balanced diet and making good choices when it comes to the food we eat. With Miss Murray we have been looking at the Eat Well Plate and fruit is one of the main food groups. Today we made fruit kebabs using bananas, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, pear, Satsuma and grapes. We had great fun making them and enjoyed them for snack.

On Thursday afternoon P2 invited parents and grandparents to our French Café, we took their orders and served them some French food. We had baguettes, pain au chocolat, crepes and croissants as well as orange juice, lemonade and hot chocolate. We really enjoyed our French food.

‘un pain au chocolat et un limonade s’il vous plait’

‘un crepe avec Nutella et un chocolat chaud s’il vous plait’

 

 

 

The boys and girls in P2, P3 and P4 had a treat day with the money we raised at our Christmas Craft Fayre. We went to the cinema to see Coco and enjoyed Pizza when we came back, I think the Pizza went down a treat!!

 

As part of their ‘Business’ topic, P2 were finding out about the different jobs which are involved in running a business. They carried out a survey asking which snacks were most popular, they handed out order forms and collected the orders and money in, they made a shopping list for all the snacks we needed, some of them even carried the shopping bags all the way back to school from Morrison’s, they sorted the orders out for each day and delivered them to the classes. What super hard workers in P2 and they managed to raise a fantastic £85.00 for SCIAF. Well Done!