P4D Leadership Roles

Well done to all of the applicants who put themselves forward for a leadership role.  The following pupils were elected.

Newsletter term 1

P7B Newsletter – Term 1

During our first few weeks of Primary 4 we have been getting to know our new teachers and new classmates.  We have been getting used to our new classroom and have been practising our new routines.

We focussed on learning about emotions and empathy and recognising and celebrating our differences and that people can feel different emotions at different times.

Meta-skills have been discussed and we have learned and practised lots of the meta-skills through STEM challenges.   Meta-skills are integrity, initiative, focusing, adapting, sense-making, critical thinking, curiosity, creativity, feeling, collaborating, communicating and leading.

We have a new class charter and voted on a gaming theme and this has helped us have a clear understanding of our rights and responsibilities to make sure we have a successful year.

Our FAR Award winners for today.

House Cup Winners – Wellington

Teacher Certificate Winners

Star Writer

Pocket Garden Design Entry

Pupil Certificate Winners

We have been settling into life in our new class, P7B. During this time we have been getting to know each other and developing new routines.

We have been learning about META skills.  META skills are divided into 3 categories, Self-management, innovation and social intelligence. We learned about the different META skills which come  under these headings.  We worked in groups to create a poster explaining the different META skills.  We completed activities in small groups where we had to use different skills to complete challenges such as counting to 21, building a shoe tower and making paper aeroplanes. These activities used lots of different META skills such as communication, creativity, adapting, collaborating, focussing, sense making, critical thinking, leading and initiative.

We created rainbow clouds to share positive qualities about each other.

We developed our maths skills when creating a ‘Figure Me Out’ challenge relating to information about ourselves. This developed our critical thinking and focus skills.

We also worked on creating our class charter. This developed our creativity, adapting, collaborating and communication skills.

We learnt about online safety and cyber resilience and created ‘Be SMART’ posters. This used our creativity, integrity and sense making skills.

We created recipes relating to our summer holidays where we shared our favourite activities. This developed our focussing, critical thinking and creativity skills.

We were inspired by a clip from the musical Matilda and wrote about our own ambitions ‘When we grow up…’

We went outside to create stone family portraits to share with the school.

During the first few days of P5 we have been busy setting up and exploring our learning environment.  We have enjoyed the different activity baskets and resources on offer for some free play, and we’ve enjoyed getting to know the new pupils who have joined us in P5.

Whilst enjoying the baskets, we have been using lots of our META skills; especially creativity, curiosity, leading, collaborating and communicating.

Have a look at some of the activities we’ve enjoyed.

On Wednesday 26th June, Primary 3 visited Heathhall Community Centre.  They helped to plant beautiful flowers, weed the bowling green area, litter pick in the carpark and play park and generally make the area look clean and tidy!  They did a wonderful job.

After all the hard work, we had a picnic lunch and then some den-building and a game of rounders!

Primary One had a fantastic trip to Moat Brae.

When we arrived we met Charlotte who told us all about the importance of Moat Brae. To help her she introduced us to Jamie Barrie – he told us that he wrote Peter Pan!

Next we went on a tour of the house. We sat at the big table and were given our pirate name.

We got to look at a room full of books and listen to a story, explore Wendy’s bedroom, chase after Tinkerbell and Peter Pan and play with lots of cool story props.

A favourite part of the tour was dressing up and performing on the big stage upstairs.

After lunch we got to play outside on the adventure playground – it was amazing!

We had a fantastic day!

The Guid Nychburris Principals visited us today.  They were joined by our very own Attendant for the event event – Evie, and Noel who is the Queen’s Bearer (Queen of the South). The Cornet presented our Guid Nychburris Handwriting competition winners with their certificates and this year one of our pupils won the cup for the best handwriting overall. Well done everyone!