In p7 we have 4 new digital leaders. Jack, Hayden,Milly and Lucia will be helping with the p7 blog and others such as the nursery blog. They will also be helping develop ICT skills in these classes.

They will enjoy their job very much!

Congratulations to the children who got the certificates at assembly this week.

Pupil  Awards                                                                                   Teacher Awards

On Thursday the 7th of February, three High School Students came in to work with classes. Their names were Megan, Morven and Lyle. They came in to talk to us about their new business called IDIOM. These three students wrote and produced a book, cards and are going on to make gift cards. Their business focuses around Bonnie the Beltie. Bonnie the Beltie is a cow from Scotland. We were all taught about how to make a business, branding, budgeting and marketing.

We did a little activity as well and it was incredibly fun but also really hard. Our task was:

• We got £60 to budget and spend
• We had to pay £10 for one sheet of paper
•  We had to pay £10 for one glue stick
• We had to pay £10 for one pair of scissors
• Luckily the pens were free
• We had to come up with a product
• Name our product
• Name our business
• Decide how much our product was going to cost
• Decide how much we were going to sell the product for
• You had to have a product that had something to do with Bonnie the Beltie
• Some groups did bracelets, pillows, phone cases, shoes etc.
• You then had to perform a two minute presentation to the class to explain/tell all of the above featuring your product

Primary 6/7 and Primary 7 thought this was a great workshop and the High School pupils delivered this well. They learnt a lot about starting up a new business and creating a new product.

Primary 4’s had a slightly different activity. They had to make a Storyboard about Bonnie the Beltie. They had to go into groups of four or five. They had to choose an adventure for Bonnie. The Primary 4’s found their activity very fun! Once they had finished they got to read them out to the class. Some of the students from P4 said they used a lot of communication skills and they really enjoyed colouring the storyboard in. The pupils said that the High School students were very nice, kind and caring. The pupils would absolutely love to take part in something like this again!

This was a lot of fun and everyone enjoyed having the experience of making their own product to show to the class.

IDIOM have worked really hard on their enterprise and if you would like to support them please visit

https://mystudentcompany.com/YEMarketPlaceUK/Company/Idiom

In P7 we have been learning to re draft our writing .We wrote a letter to Mrs McLean about what the effects would be if we introduced social media to school . We also wrote a repot  on our  visit to the aviation museum and we are currently writing a short story about a mischievous  elf and we will be sharing these stories with the infants.

In reading we have been working on our comprehension skills and using HOTS strategies to ask and answer questions which really make us think.

We also presented a talk to the class this term where we had to discuss an environmental issue which interested us.

In numeracy we have  been  developing  our skills with the four number processes in order to solve BODMAS calculations . We have also been working with decimals , fractions and percentages and learning how to convert between these .

In  mental maths we have been talking about the different strategies we use to solve calculations .

In HWB with Mr Ross we have been learning about mental illnesses we made leaflets of any illness of our choice.

In P.E with  Mr Sharp we have been doing dancing. We made a street dancing dance. we also made gymnastics routines.

In IDL we have been learning about our senses and then we moved on to learning about festivals of light . We even had a visit from 2 Jewish men to tell us about Hanukkah.

During work with technologies we have been updating our own Glow blogs. We also have been using the green screen and movieplus to create a short film about using our senses to keep us safe.

We have created some interesting art work this term showing skills in perspective, tone and collage.

What a busy term!

On the 28th of January P5 did an assembly about what they’ve been learning recently. They talked about Victorians, Scotland’s physical features and did art work on it.

They sang a song at the end about the Victorians and did a dance. It ws very good to watch. They talked about festivals of light.

Some P1’s to P3’s were really busy in Miss Anderson’s Food and Health.

On week one they discussed the different jobs that use Food and Health and the Skills that they would be using. They looked at the 5 main food groups. They also packed a healthy lunch box.

On week two they discussed foods they would eat at a specific time of year.

On week three they did some food tasting. They tasted Christmas food.

On week four they discussed Kitchen Safety and designed a kitchen safety poster.

On week five they had a healthy picnic in the hall with the other 2 Food and Health groups.

On Thursday 31st January P1- 4 had a special visitor. Corey came to play some Scottish songs to finish off their topic of Robert Burns. A few Scots songs he played were A Man and also Auld Lang Syne.  He then gave the girls and boys a wee treat of Avicii’s ‘Wake Me Up’ as well as ‘Baby Shark’. Everyone really enjoyed the visit form Corey.

In Skills Academy Mrs McKirdle did drama with the infants classes. They have been exploring scripts to develop characters, emphasising expressions and tone and they were reading short dramas and prepared scripts.

Here are some photos:

Primary 4-5 have been working really hard on maths. The maths they have been focusing on is multiplication and division. The class have been trying so hard to learn their times tables! Here is one of the pupil’s jotters!

This week people who got a F.A.R certificate for achieving got a wristband. Here are the certificate winners for this week. Well done everyone!

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