Well done to all the pupils who gave a fantastic performance of the Jeely piece song! The Primary 3’s did a fantastic job of learning their poem Bumbees and equally Primary 4 impressed with their recital of A Dug, A Dug.

Inspired by the work of Bill Keys, pupils have been writing their own verse- requesting a pet of their choice. Good luck at home as they are rather convincing!

We have started subtraction in numeracy, head to the homework tab to find some ideas of how to enhance learning at home.

In gymnastics we have been learning different types of rolls with a focus on safety in the gym hall.

We enjoyed working collaboratively to produce a Robert Burns display.

We look forward to begining our new topic of Scottish Cities this week.

Innes enjoyed being the bingo caller- giving subtraction calculations rather than just numbers.

This week in gymnastics we have been practising a range of balances and increasing the length of time that we can hold these.

A Smart Start that we really enjoyed was working out the cost of our name when given a table of prices for each letter. It really got us thinking!

We’ve been working so hard on our Poems and are singing our Scots song enthusiastically! We look forward to the Scottish assembly on Friday!

We also enjoyed making our spelling words out of Scrabble tiles.

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The pupils have worked hard this week and enjoyed choosing a new seating arrangement for the class.

We have been learning to calculate change by using the ‘counting on’ method. Some learners like to do this with a blank number line, a 100 square or simply in their head. It can be quite tricky so pupils may want to practise this a little more. As a rough guide the pyramids were calculating change from £2 and with the challenge of £5; the cubes have been working with change from 50p or £1.

To help with our maths topic the pupils were tasked with creating a coffee shop in the playground area for the P1/2 to enjoy. They thoroughly enjoyed this task and really got creative with menus, specials boards and some first class serving skills!

In literacy we were looking at rhyming patterns in poetry and generating rhyme to describe the months of the year.

We finished the week with making some calendars inspired by  our poems using zentangle patterns.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

A Dug, A Dug by Bill Keys

A Dug A Dug by Bill Keys – YouTube

A Dug A dug (edited)