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P2 have been learning about recycling and different building and what they are used for. Their homework challenge was to build a 3D model of a famous landmark whether it was local or from around the world. What super effort we had for everyone. P3 and P4 came for a visit and the P2’s were able to tell them all about their buildings and how they made them.

 

Today in Primary 1 we celebrated our Healthy Eating topic with a Teddy Bear’s Picnic.  We all brought in a teddy and made our own healthy wrap to enjoy on our rugs in the classroom.  We played games and listened to some great teddy bear songs.  We even grew teddy bear ears for the occasion, see if you can spot them in our photographs!

Our School Sport Committee met today to discuss ways our school could achieve a Sport Scotland Gold Award.  We have made an action plan and will be promoting different types of sports for all ages in our school.  Watch this space for more information on how we are getting on!

 

On Thursday 26th January, four of our talented pupils from P6 and P7 performed in the Rotary Club Speech Making Competition.  The title for their speech was ‘What Makes a Good Neighbour?’

The  children entertained the audiences and the judges were very impressed with the standard of all the children.

A special congratulations goes to Matthew who will now represent our school in the final in March.

Well done we are very proud of you all!

Yesterday Primary 1 had a very busy day as we had our Celebration of Learning.  We invited our grown ups in to share the learning we have been doing in our Health and Wellbeing topic.

Our activities included a food sorting challenge, creating an eatwell plate, using our senses to describe different foods and making some very yummy fruit kebabs!

It was great fun sharing our learning and we think even the grown ups learned a few new facts about keeping healthy!

 

Today we held a special assembly to celebrate the work we have all been doing connected to the Scots language.  All classes have been busy looking at this and we decided it would be nice to share with everyone.

We had Scottish songs and poems and our Nursery children even gave us a bit of exercise as we all joined in with ‘Heids, shooders, knees and taes!”

Primary 5 have kept their special performance of a Scottish dance for Mr Valentine at tomorrow’s assembly.

It was great fun and a lovely celebration of the country we are all part of.

 

It has been a while since we last posted some of our learning displays to look at. Robert Burns is one theme that tends to come up at this time of the year. 

Today P2 had their Celebration of Learning. Parents and Grandparents came in to see what we have been learning and how. P2 entertained their audience with a French days of the week song and a Scots poem. Everyone took part in the Go Noodle brain break too. We had lots of activities to show how we learn in different areas of the curriculum.

 

In Primary 7 we are learning about shape this term.  We worked cooperatively measuring carefully to make 3D shapes such as triangular prisms, cubes and cuboids.  The play dough shows up the vertices nicely and it helped us to see the properties of shapes. We worked on our mental maths calculating the exact length of straw used to make each shape too. Great work P7!

This week the secondary science department will be launching the Science Fair.  A competition at St Joseph’s for P7 and S1 children to take part in.  More information will follow soon.  Meanwhile, P7 have been creating their own blood this week (of a messy kitchen kind!) We  used marshmallows, yellow and red colouring, cheerios and oats to represent the red blood cells, plasma, white bloods cells and platelets.  No children were harmed in this experiment!!