National Poetry Day was celebrated throughout the school with pupils writing their own masterpieces, talking & listening presenting sessions and activities for enjoyment; sharing real poets work and comparing different times of genre and style.
The children in Primary 3 have been studying the seashore zones and the creatures that are found there. They have also compared the seaside and what happens there and how it looks now to 100 years ago. They were excited to find lots of things that are the same but also the large number of differences.
The children participated in activities covering curricular areas of Science, Technology and Art related to our topic.
Designing and building seaside activitiesCameron is checking the swings
Boat buildersMaking jellyfishWatch out it doesn't sting you Emma!Fun in the sand Pointillism Starfish Research groupEnterprising homework3D lighthouses
Inspired by the Bell Rock lighthouse
Well done children and their helpers
The Primary 3’s went on trip to Culzean where they did rock pool and beach art activities.
Fun in the sunWhat have you found?After lunch siesta
Then a week later it was off to visit the RNLI at Troon who were super but unfortunately the weather was anything but as the rain came down and the 3s got very wet.
Ooops that's a bit big for you SarahRadio operator CaitlinAny more ???This is what we wear when we go to save someone.Hang on we will save you!
It was a lovely day for sports. It was very funny a Primary 1 put her pigtails in her circle rubber ring and people where trying to get in there sack, but at least it turned out nice I loved it.
Emily Bradford
It was a perfect day for sports day. Some people cheated at the novelty race and the nursery race. There were selling juice, water and crisps.it was a lot of fun a little girl got stuck in her sack.
Tamzin Anderson
Yesterday it was our sports day my class did the balancing the ball race I came 2nd Amy Mortimer won. I also did the girls relay the yellows came 2nd I did the tunnel ball- guess where we came 2nd. I did the flat race I came 5th the top 4 get a sticker well doesn’t matter it least I came 2nd in 3!!!
The pupils across the school worked towards their painting targets set by their Class Teachers and practised new techniques and demonstrated their skills. The results were very professional and deserved to be exhibited for all to see.
Therefore we enlisted the help of an outside agency that specialised in art galleries to mount, frame and exhibit the pupils’ work at Parents’ Evening.
We hope you got the oppportunity to visit the gallery and we would like to thank you for your support with this project.
These pupils’ parents and carers decided to buy their art work to hang in their own galleries at home.
Primary 2 recently visited Culzean Castle to look for lost toys. They also took a woodland walk through the grounds, where they tested their senses by smelling , touching, listening and looking. Everyone enjoyed making a colour palette with lots of shades. It was a great trip!
The Primary 2 pupils are currently studying ” The Circus.” They have been talking about all the different circus animals, people and equipment that is used. They enjoyed hearing the story about “Dumbo the Flying Elephant.” If anyone has anything that relates to the circus can they please bring it into school. Enterprising homework will follow soon!
Primary Two’s Big Top
Which people, animals and equipment is used at the circus?
A local author arrived in school last week to speak to the whole school at Assembly and afterwards to Question Time in the Pr.2 Literacy groups. Primary 2 pupils had the opportunity to purchase signed copies of his books and the school have kept three copies of each for our own school library, for everyone to enjoy.
James McClelland is local to Ayrshire and his books about a young boy and his pet sabre toothed tiger are published locally in Darvel. The pupils listened to sections from his first two books; chapters involving diplodocus and the mighty T-rex after he had talked about his own childhood experience of writing. We hope that he has inspired some pupils to take the plunge and jump into stories and writing; using their imagination to take them on adventures.
