Happy Friday!

Things just keep getting busier in the classroom and around the school and Term 3 has certainly provided us with many learning opportunities.

In literacy, we have been developing our persuasive writing skills and have focused on expanding our ideas and giving strong reasons and evidence to back up our opinions. The pupils have worked hard to include rhetorical questions and persuasive phrases in their writing and are improving on how to use paragraphs. We have also finished our “The Butterfly Lion” novel study, just in time for World Book Day! The pupils said that they loved this book as it was set back in time and they loved that it was animal themed. How will we top that story!?

In maths, we have completed a block of data handling and to demonstrate their learning, pupils made posters of the schools favourite African animal. In teams, P5s created a survey, collected data in a tally table from a specific class and displayed that data in two different ways. All of their information was then displayed on a poster which you may be able to see if you come and see our performance of The Lion King!

In other areas, we’ve had a visit from members of the East Ayrshire Fairtrade group who gave us a talk all about Fairtrade and focused on Fairtrade coffee. We will be continuing to explore this theme next week. It’s been all systems go for our Lion King performance! We have tried on our costumes and our scenery is all ready. The pupils are super excited about next week and I’m sure you will be blown away by their talent, confidence and determination to make this show the best they can.

It’s beginning to feel a bit more spring like, here’s hoping the sun shines over the weekend!

-Mrs McDonald x