Term 2 (1)

“It was international STEM day so we did lots of building” – Robson (STEM means Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths)

“We can build whatever we want” – Elsie

(This was a child-led activity, We provided the resources and watched the children display creativity, imagination, initiative and collaboration skills. Look at what they made!)

P1/2 have been learning about pattern. We went outdoors to see if we could make patterns with objects we found outdoors…

Sometimes Primary 7 pupils help us with our learning.  This week they were helping us with our new topic of materials and building, fine motor skills of cutting, using the ipad to access purple mash, and using directional language to programme the code and go mice…

We have been learning about animals .

We wanted to make octopus, Mrs. Woods showed us how to make an octopus with Strawbees and paper.  We used the kidizoom camera to record our work.

“My octopus has 8 legs, just like a real octopus” – Mikey

“I drew an octopus with a big head” – Elsie

” The Strawbees are cool. I think I could make lots of things with them.” – Finn

We had great fun on scooters this week.

Primary 1 and Primary 1/2 went for a walk round our local community to look at the houses that had been decorated for the Halloween competition taking part in Heathhall community.

We took clipboards and pencils so we could use our data handling skills to collect information on the decorations we could see. We used tally marks to count how many Halloween items we saw on our walk.

“I was keeping my eyes open for bats, I like bats”  – Parker

“We went to my house, it was decorated for Halloween” – Harris Mc

” I liked the houses with giant spider webs” – Thea

” I used tally marks to count and remembered to put the squint line on to make a bundle of 5″ – Thora

What a great end to bike to school week. We saw 79 bikes parked outside our school today. Everyone enjoyed the first bike breakfast of this academic year before the start of our school day.

We wore bright clothes to school today to highlight how important it is to be seen when walking to and from school. The days are getting shorter and it is getting darker so we want drivers can see us.

Primary 1 have settled well into the routines of Heathhall school.

” I love going to school because I learn things.” ~ Thea

” I like playing with the lego, I like building.” ~ Alfie

“I like getting points for being kind.” ~ Finn

“I am happy at school, I get to play with my friends.” ~ Grace

“I like art, we made underpants.” ~ Poppy