Term 4

11.5.26 – 22.5.26 – This week’s blog is by Asa and Bobby!

We planted pumpkin plants outside with Joyce! – Bobby

The blue class were learning about cyber hygiene. We made a poster to raise awareness on how to stay safe online and have good cyber hygiene. – Asa

We made little Water Cycles. We got plastic packs, then we wrote the Water Cycle on them. We then put some water in them and some cotton wool balls. We then put them on the window. – Bobby

We were making up sentences by taking an adverb and a verb from each pile of cards. We were also doing some sequencing. – Asa

The P1’s were writing their tricky words. – Bobby

In the blue class we have been playing a new game called Kaboom for maths. To play you pick lolly pop sticks out of a cup, each of them will have a sum on a certain times table or it will have Kaboom, if you pick this you have to put all your sticks back. No one ever actually wins! – Asa

We have been practising our Sports Day activities such as floorball, wellie boot throw and the co-operative skis. – Asa & Bobby

We went to Lochrutton for the Barbour cup. We played in a series of matches against Lochrutton and Kirkgunzeon. We came 2nd place by 1 point! – Asa & Bobby

We had a pre school afternoon. We had the parachute out, building blocks, scooters and chalk to draw. – Asa & Bobby

We had Active Schools in to do Highland Games. We played ‘Trolls Den’ where we were in teams and had to get the bean bags from the middle. – Asa

We seen how our Water Cycle’s changed. Mrs McCubbin took the packs down and opened them up and poured the water into a jug to see how much was left. – Bobby

Devyn brought in her sister’s Frenchie called Graham. – Asa

We were making dramas about emotions. – Bobby

We had our Ram Tam performance where family could come in and see what we have been doing with Claire. – Asa & Bobby

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27.4.26 – 8.5.26 – This week’s blog is by Jesse and Zamari!

We put cups in the plant pots to see how much rain water is collected. We filled up jugs with 100ml of water into the trays to show evaporation. Then we drew out the water cycle! – Jesse & Zamari

Here are some activities that have been going on in the yellow class with the P1’s! – Zamari

The P6/7’s have been doing bikeability. We had a slow race, I won once, Ella won once and Aria won twice. We went around the village and practised left and right turns. On the final day we went on a 6 mile cycle! I enjoyed doing this a lot! – Jesse

We thought what colour each emotion would be. Then we got paint and used our finger print for each little face and then drew on the face and wrote the emotion underneath. – Jesse

We went outside and looked for dandelions and leaves, we then painted the flower and pressed them onto the paper and took them off to leave a print. We then done the same with the leaves and stems. After that we added bees to the picture. – Zamari

We have had the Solway Sharks in to do some floorball with us. We were in different teams and went against each other! – Zamari

We have been doing an after school club for netball for a competition coming up called Fun Fivez. – Jesse

Families came in to have a look at our work and around the school. – Zamari

They also had a look at our School Charter and our new behaviour policy. – Jesse

We made ice lollies with different types of drink. Liquid when frozen becomes solid! We then seen who could melt an ice cube the fastest, I just kept rubbing it between my hands! – Zamari

For Ram Tam we were hitting our instruments to the beat on the cards at the same time. – Zamari

We played the Bluey them tune on the tin whistle! It was very squeaky! – Jesse

We were drawing fish and making sure they were 1 metre long! – Zamari

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20.4.26 – 24.4.26 – This week’s blog is by Mirren and Fergus F!

We made wind socks using plastic cups and coloured crepe paper. We then put them outside and spread them in different places around the playground so they didn’t get tangled. – Mirren & Fergus

We were highlighting linking sentences, 3 micros, 1 macro, punctuation, time connectives and technical language. This writing was on the water cycle. – Mirren

We had out the boom whackers, they make different sounds. – Fergus

It was Dougie Day and we came dressed wearing blue. We designed a Dougie in the morning that Mrs Bielinski very kindly drew for us. Then Dougie came in to visit us and played ‘beat the goalie’ and then we had a scavenger hunt for footballs. We raised £25.75! – Mirren & Fergus

We worked in groups to make symmetry pictures using things from the playground. – Fergus

We were making plays in groups, we weren’t allowed to talk in them. My group was about a person getting left out and bullied on a bus. I was the one getting bullied! – Mirren

We got awards for the lacrosse. Asa got one for the most improved player and Ainsley got one for the player of the tournament. – Mirren

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13.4.26 – 17.4.26 – This week’s blog is by Ainsley & Isla!

We were doing a puzzle of the alphabet and a rhyming puzzle! – Isla

We went outside to play a game for maths. In the game we had to roll the dice and whatever the sum was we ran to the answer and the winner got to roll the dice next. On the iPads we played Sumdog. – Ainsley

The P2/3’s made up some weather reports and then they showed it to the P1’s. – Isla

In the morning some of us were doing jigsaws and some of us were using our imagination to build things. – Ainsley

We were in 2 groups and made sea creatures out of rubbish. My group made a turtle and the other group made a fish. – Isla

For PE we took out the parachute and played a game called ‘sharks and lifeguards’. The P4-7’s and the P1-3’s had a challenge to see who could make the best mushroom shape. – Ainsley & Isla

For Ram Tam we learned a new song and also learned to play a tune on the tin whistle. – Ainsley

We were clapping our hands with the song we were singing. – Isla

Miss McKinnon read us a little story for RME and we had to make different scenes about the story. We made freeze frames. – Ainsley

We made dramas about being fair and unfair. For my group I wasn’t letting someone play a game with me and that was unfair. – Isla