Class Update Week of 9/3/26

We have been working hard learning all about the ocean and ocean animals as part of our book studies.

We started reading The Rainbow Fish a couple of weeks ago and are now working on Commotion in the Ocean. We are exploring non fiction writing as part of this and are working on creating a leaflet all about the ocean at our free writing table.

We have been looking at measuring length using standard and non standard unit, and have also started exploring a wider range of 2D shapes.

We have also been busy making sharks out of paper plates which will be our craft entry for the cattle show next month. Here are some pictures of our very busy activities this week.

In our maths lessons we have continued to practise subtraction within 10 / 20. We did a scavenger hunt and made up our own sums in our maths jitters.

In P.E. We are continuing to improve our gymnastics skills. We are now working with Primary 3/4 and we are leaning lots of new skills from our new P.E. Buddies.

Archaeology Scotland

Archaeology Scotland visited the school last week and we were learning all about what archaeologists do. We got to be archaeologists and dig through different materials to see what we could find.

World Book Day

We have had a great time celebrating World Book Day today. Thank you to everyone for putting in so much effort with all the wonderful costumes!

We showed off our costumes and discussed our characters in class this morning, then we showed them off in front of the whole school. We did a quiz in our School Houses and then shared our favourite books with reading buddies from Primary 5/6.

We have been looking at The Rainbow Fish in class over the last week. We wrote our own Rainbow Fish book and looked at the setting, characters and re-telling the story. We also made Rainbow name plates which the children brought home today. We ended the day with fruit and a story.

Sharing the Learning 26/2/26

Thank you to all parents and carers that were able to make it along to our sharing the learning event, we hope you enjoyed your afternoon and learned a little more about how we teach reading in school.

Here are some pictures from the day-

Go to this Sway

Home learning 23/02/26

Primary 1 new sound “j”.

jam

jar

jet

jog

Primary 2 new sound “ure”

sure

cure

pure

injure

secure

manure

picture

treasure

P1/2 measuring with non standard units.

Home learning wb 16/2/26

P1 new sound this week is “ss”

miss

pass

less

boss

P2 new sound is “air”

air

fair

pair

hair

stairs

dairy

fairy

repair

Primary 1 Home Learning 3/2/26

Phonics

Our new sound this week is ‘l’ we are also learning that some words end in ‘ll’.

Could you practise the ‘l’ sound and formation by using bright colours to ‘light’ up the sound?

lip

lot

lap

leg

Numeracy and Maths

We are learning about length. Can you try these challenges at home?

Can you find an object that is longer than your foot?

Shorter than your hand?

How many spoons long is your table?

Primary 2 Homework 3/2/26

Spelling & Phonics

This week our phoneme is ‘ar’ like car.

Here is a game to reinforce our learning.

ar word cloud

Spelling List

farm

scarf

park

dark

star

art

shark

harp

Numeracy and Maths

We are learning about length. We are measuring with non-standard units e.g. how many cubes long is the table.

Can you complete some measuring challenges around the house?

What have we been up to?

Firstly a huge well done to all the pupils for a fantastic performance of Bonnie Wee Jeanie Macoll, along with an excellent recital of ‘Up in the morning early’ by Robert Burns. The children also enjoyed learning our new school song.

Back in class we’ve been hard at work learning the sound and formation for ‘f’. Meanwhile P2 pupils have been spelling words with ‘er’.

We’ve been using word cards and letter tiles to help read and write cvc words independently.

We also enjoy using the computers to reinforce our learning.