24.25 January Parent friendly planning January 25 newsletter

Term 2 in Primary 5/6 has been incredibly enriching, with many enjoyable and interactive learning experiences. Throughout this term, the children have actively engaged in various hands-on activities that sparked their curiosity and fostered a sense of collaboration. The classroom has transformed into a vibrant, dynamic environment where students feel encouraged to share ideas and participate in discussions. From group projects promoting teamwork to creative assignments allowing personal expression, the children have greatly benefited from these stimulating activities, making learning fun and impactful.

This term, the class has concentrated on developing specific meta-skills. These include focusing skills demonstrated through their CYPIC writing, effective communication and collaboration during group tasks, and creativity and critical thinking through challenging concepts. Additionally, they have employed a variety of techniques to solve problems.

We are looking forward to term 3 next year!

Merry Christmas and a Happ New Year from all in Primary 5/6.

P7 had great fun at their Christmas Party today!

P7 have been working hard to create their Naughty Elf Stories. They then visited Primary One to share their stories. While they were there they also had fun playing a Snowman Drive with the P1s.

Our Nursery Christmas Celebration took place in the nursery this year due to the weather.

It was very cosy and lots of fun!!!!

Video links have been emailed to the parents.

Thank you to all the family and friends that came along to support their children. Merry Christmas from us all x

Congratulations to Amy who is our Accelerated Reader 100% lottery winner. Keep on reading and enjoy spending your gift card.

Well done!

On Thursday 12th December P5-7 held a Christmas Sing A Long for the elderly. Each class chose 2 songs which they wanted to sing. We invited elderly residents from the community to come and join us for some singing and tea and shortbread. Everyone had a lovely afternoon.

Primary 7 made short animations with a Christmas theme.

We worked as a team to create our movies. – Sarah

We had good fun creating different characters for our movies. – Mollie

We had a lot of fun making the backgrounds. – Abigail

It was a bit embarrassing when we had to do the voice over. – Cole

We developed our focussing, initiative, working as a team and creativity skills. – Joe M

Another busy term is almost complete!

We started off the term by exploring Diversity. We took our learning outdoors where we created a Diversity web. We used collaboration and creativity to draw around our partner and add in facts about ourselves. We then looked around the circle and drew a line to someone that we had a similarity with. Very quickly we could see lots of similarities between us.

As part of Scooter Week, we had the chance to use the scooters. We used collaboration and  critical thinking skills to create an obstacle course where we were weaving around objects and working on our ability to control our speed.

We went to Dumfries High School for a Health and Wellbeing day where we met some of our teachers for next year, as well as peers from other schools. One of our favourite activities was using our communication skills to guide our blindfolded partner to put pieces of penne pasta onto a piece of spaghetti, and making spaghetti and marshmallow bridges!

We had our Term 2 trip to Lochthorn Library where we used our focusing and curiosity skills to find synonyms and antonyms after learning about these in class.

As part of our French learning all about clothes, we used  creativity to design our very own outfits, which we then labelled in French. We also had a fashion show where we described our outfits to the class. Tres bien P7!

Our teacher was very impressed when a small group decided to create their very own maths game to play in class! This developed creativity, leadership, communication and critical thinking.

We have been learning about the Festival of Light, Diwali. We created our own Rangoli patterns outside in the playground. There was so much creativity and focus involved in this activity.

Our very passionate Rights Respecting leaders, Jack and Callan, took on a leadership role and taught us about one of our chosen articles, Article 14. We all created brilliant posters all about our right to choose our own religion and what this means to us.

P7R chose to learn about Scotland’s involvement in World War One. As part of our learning, we took part in a STEM challenge to create a WW1 trench out of a variety of materials. This activity fostered almost ALL of our Meta-Skills and we had great fun doing it!

To round up our term and get ourselves into the festive spirit, P5 to P7 have been preparing and practising for a Christmas sing-a-long for the community. Everyone did absolutely outstanding and made their teachers incredibly proud! Members of the community who came to watch the performance were full of praise for our very talented young people.

P7R even made shortbread for our guests.

Well done!!