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)

Welcome Back

Happy new year and welcome back to Primary 3/4.

Firstly a huge thank you to all our pupils, parents and carers for our very generous and thoughtful gifts. We appreciate it very much.

We look forward to kick-starting the new term with all things Scottish in preparation for our Burns assembly at the end of January. Our poems will be posted for practise and are as follows-

P3- Bumbees by JK Anand

P4- A Dug, A Dug by Bill Keys

Here is a round up of some of our December fun in the SWAY below-

December 2025

Christmas parties, social dancing, Nativity and crafts. A good time was had by all!

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P3/4 have been learning about jobs and services in our community. In literacy we created questions to ask our visitors to learn more about their jobs and how they use skills from school in their jobs.

We have been lucky enough to have Lynn, Margaret, Amy, Mr Fiddes, Jen and Ed in to visit us. We have learned so much about our community and the work that goes on in the village.

Jobs in our community

This term we are learning about jobs in our community. We are so grateful to our visitors so far- Lynn from Time to Bee Me, Margaret from MaidSafe , Amy, a trainee pharmacist from the Chem…

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Spelling is a little different this week as we have been learning about compound words in grammar.

Here is a link to some online games as well as the differentiated word lists.

Compound word game – Teaching resources

Spelling Compound Words