Category: News

I wanted to say another big THANK YOU to everyone for your lovely end of year presents, kind cards and beautiful pictures, they are so appreciated.

I have enjoyed teaching everyone so much and am so so proud of every single boy and girl in my class because you have all worked so hard and have grown so much this year!

I can’t wait to teach all of the Primary 1s in Primary 2 again and am sad to have to pass the Primary 3s on to a different class. I know everyone will do a brilliant job though.

I wish you all a lovely summer break full of adventures, experiences and exciting things to tell me about when you come back to school in August. I love hearing all the news!

We have had an amazing celebration week for our school’s 50th birthday!

Unfortunately I had little time to take pictures outside of the classroom but Miss Gorman has shared celebration pictures on the school blog.

Thank you so so much for your very kind and thoughtful gifts for me. I’m so touched and grateful, thank you. I can’t wait to visit the wool shop and enjoy an afternoon tea!

Here is a very small summary of just a few things we have been doing.

We had a great celebration afternoon on Friday:

We also did lots of fun work in the classroom and outside this week and last week!

We had a visit from Archaeology Scotland last week and made flowers from toilet paper for Miss Gorman’s jacket that she wore on Tuesday for our archaeology presentation.

We also made good use of the good weather:

It has been a very busy 2 weeks for us. Last week, Archaeology Scotland came back for a visit and this week was our Health week.

We read stories about the past and learned about the Bronze age and the Ochiltree Urn with Archaeology Scotland. We learned how we can record our knowledge and how to make pots similar to the Ochiltree urn.

In art, we have been looking at making collages. We want to make a big collage of the old and the new school to show you some of the things we have learned when you come into school for our 50th anniversary celebration.

On Tuesday, we had some football instruction from our Active Schools team. We then cooled off in the shade of our timber trail.

On Thursday, we had a day of potted sports and indoor activities all around summer.

We also practised our Sports Day races. Hopefully our Sports Day will be able to take place this afternoon!

We had a brilliant time at the Science Centre today.

We left school first thing this morning.

We spent time exploring all the different experiments when we arrived. The whole class enjoyed the Science play area but we also looked around the other activities.

Then we had our lunch which was a highlight for many of us!

In the afternoon we visited the planetarium and learned all about the stars and some of our planets. It was amazing to travel to Venus, Saturn and Pluto!

This has been a very short week for us in class but we were still very busy!

On Tuesday, we enjoyed having our PE lesson outside together with the P3/4 class. We practised our batting and aiming skills, worked in a team and improved our balance and movements.

Even though we didn’t get any homework this week, we still worked hard on our spelling and maths. We started looking at numbers to 20 in P1 and multiplication in P2. We are also still practising telling the time and did time activities on Friday.

We also got the chance to play in our play area every day (as usual). We are developing social skills, as well as creativity, communication and problem solving skills when we play with others.

 

This week we have continued to look at our book The Snail and the Whale. We also practised our spelling with different activities. In Maths, we practised telling the time.

In Art, we made beautiful sunflowers using drawing and colouring techniques. We then used tissue paper to add texture to the sunflowers.

We enjoyed practising different Badminton games.

We also had lots of play opportunities inside and outside.

We ended the week with a special story time with our P6/7 buddies who had written a book for us. We got to take the books home with us, too!

We have had a brilliant week back at school after our Easter holidays. Our highlight this week was definitely our Cattle Show visit but we have also done lots and lots of learning.

We were lucky to have had fantastic weather for our Cattle Show visit on Wednesday. Our crafts winners are: 3rd place – Harley; 2nd place – Amber; 1st place – Niamh. Congratulations!

In Literacy, we practised our phonics, compared a sea snail and a humpback whale as part of our book study on The Snail and the Whale, wrote postcards to the snails on the rock (free writing) and labelled the body parts of a snail.

Our maths focused on finding missing numbers in subtraction calculations. We used number lines to help us. We also looked at o’clock times and explored different coins for our money topic.

We also did lots of activities linked to The Snail and the Whale but also developing our maths, art, literacy and find motor skills:

In PE we started to learn Basketball with Mrs Cunningham and Badminton with Mrs Kane. Badminton is definitely trickier but everyone did a super job.

I hope that everyone has a fantastic weekend and that you can get to enjoy the lovely weather. See you on Monday!

We are all excited for our Easter break to start and have been doing lots of Easter activities as well as our “normal” hard work.

I hope that everyone has a lovely holiday!

But first – Here are some pictures of what we have been doing:

We have had such a busy week! Luckily, the weather has been nice which meant we enjoyed our 3 day visit from Archaeology Scotland even more!

We played “I Spy” to find differences and similarities between our school and the old school. We found out that the old school has a bell tower that our school doesn’t have and that the old school is made from stone, while our school is build with bricks. The next day, we went into our school pitch and did some archaeological digs in some of our many mole hills. We found lots of “treasures”, some of which were shards from a 200 year old plate! On Friday, we did some time travelling and found out that 200 years is not that old after all! We made a timeline in the playground and travelled along it.

We have started to put together a lap book of our time travel adventures. Here is what we have created so far:

 

In between our archaeological work, we also continued working hard on our literacy and numeracy skills. We practised subtraction, our new sounds and graphemes, and wrote super news stories on Monday morning.

We really have been busy and doing a super job! I hope that everyone will have a wonderful weekend and will be able to enjoy the lovely sunshine.