Week Ending 27/03/26

A huge well done to Primary 3/4 who finished in 2nd place during the East Ayrshire Sumdog competition! We also had two pupils make it into the top ten- Innes and Will. A fantastic result for our first competition.

Thank you to all parents and carers who attended our recent parents evening. We hope you enjoyed seeing your child’s classroom and work, it was lovely to see you all.

We have had a great week crafting for the cattle show, drumming with Mrs MJ and using th nets at Badminton. Miss Murray taught our writing lesson this week and was impressed with the ideas as well as finished work from P3/4.

This week we finish on Thursday at 2.30pm, buses leaving at 2pm, what a quick term it has been! We wish everyone a great Easter bring when it comes.

Week Ending 20/03/26

What a glorious week we had to enjoy our sessions with archaeology Scotland! ☀️

Firstly pupils began by exploring Ochiltree Cemetery on Wednesday. We looked for evidence of people from the past and learned about different types of stone. On Thursday we took part in an archaeological dig and found some interesting artefacts. We finished on Friday by cleaning up our findings and beginning to design our time machines.

In between our outdoor learning, we continued working on subtraction, refined our serve in badminton, wrote some excellent instructions for brushing your teeth and enjoyed creating some spring inspired art.

See what we’ve been up to below-

 

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Week Ending 13/06/26

What a busy week was had by all!

On Wednesday, we got to take part in a fabulous music workshop with the Bernadetti Foundation. The pupils were so engaged and we had many a volunteer to take part. After that, we got stuck into some subtraction problems. We have been learning to use a written calculation and had fun writing these out on the desks. In the afternoon, we wrote instructions for making toast and jam. See the SWAY below to find out how we ‘put the jam on’.

On Thursday, we enjoyed music with Mrs MJ, we have been learning about different instruments from the strings section. We continued our work on subtraction and were reading too.

On Friday we had STEM with Mrs Rooney, followed by more maths and leadership groups. Somewhere in between we had time to make some special cards. We hope all our ‘Mothers and Others’ enjoyed them!

Ready for a busy week with archaeology Scotland!

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Spelling

Good afternoon,

The children had a ball making butter with Mrs Cunningham this morning as part of their health and wellbeing lesson. Our quality assurance officer (Mr Butler) gave high praise, stating that it tasted as good as, if not better than, shop bought butter!

 

Please click on the link below for this week’s spelling list. The phoneme is /j/ and its spelling variations include ‘j’, ‘g’, ‘dge’, and ‘ge’.

 

Spelling-j-g-dge-ge

 

See below for some ideas to help you practise your spelling, or come up with some of your own.

Sharing the Learning

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-

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Spelling

Good morning,
The children have been focussing so well in spelling and enjoying the different activities to embed their learning in class. Please find the link to the new spelling phoneme below, ‘ll’. 
Spelling is practised over two weeks, with an assessment in class every second week. Remember, once your child is confident with their own spelling word list, they are encouraged to try another group’s words. They could also come up with some words of their own to add to their list.

Spelling ll – le – el – al

 

You could try one of the activities below to practise your spelling.