Over the past few weeks we have become authors, writing a story for our P1/2 buddies. The children were given the start of a story and it was their job to continue the story in the style of the author. The story was, “The Very Lazy Ladybird,” written by Isobel Finn.

We shared our stories with our buddies and gave them our books to take home.

This week the learning has been initiated by the learners. Our Scotland IDL was looking into the fearures of Scotland which attracts tourism to our country. As Scotland is steeped in history, many of the children researched into castles. Here is the evidence of their creativity:

Thank you to everyone who puts such great effort into this learning – especially parents for providing the materials and receiving the final products.

Congratulations to Amelia and Olivia whose castle was chosen by an independent judge as being the best of the best. Well done girls!

Team work. Designing a time machine and other instruments/resources to help us go back in time.

Session 4 began with a timeline from the Stone Age up to the present day. As this time line was to scale it helped us to realise that although we think of the Romans and the Egyptians as ancient civilisations they are more recent than we think in the whole scheme of things.

In this session, we cleaned up all the evidence found in our dig.

Here’s what we found!

Now it was back to the stem room to categorise and log our findings.

In our 3rd session with Archaology Scotland we carried out an excavation of our playing field.

Here are the findings from the 3 digs:

We had our 2nd session with Archaology Scotland this afternoon. We explored the old cemetry at the bottom of the village. We discovered head stones from the 1700’s and recorded all the evidence they gave us.

We also got in touch with some of the wildlife.  Here we have evidence that our very rare ladybirds are still in Ochiltree.

Harris also made a little friend!

This enterprising duo have been busking in the village to raise funds for our 50th Celebrations. Tommy Reid (P6) and Lauchlan Morrison (P7) raises £11.80. The boys have only been playing for a short time but have wowed our whole school in a special get together to celebrate their achievement.

Congratulation boys. We look forward to hearing more from you in the future!

Last week we were beginning our work on fractions, understanding the language of fractions, comparing fractions and making links between decimals and percentages:

We had the pleasure of an interactive workshop with Calum from the Bernadetti Foundation. The children enjoyed the session and were all engaged throughout. Here are some of our leaders: