We had a fantastic time at our Halloween party on Thursday. Our room was the music room and we had great fun dancing away! We also had the opportunity to chill out and watch spooky movies in P5 and do some Halloween colouring in P6, as well as dooking for apples in the open area.

We have had such a busy week back in P7.  We have been getting organised for our Upcoming show, ‘Cinderella and Rockerfella’ and have been auditioning and assigning parts this week.  All of the speaking roles have been given out, along with the scripts, so we are looking for as much help as possible to practice  learning the lines at home.

We have also started our new Multiplication Masters challenge in class where we will be really focusing on learning our times tables. Each week we will rotate through 3 activities:  a ‘Say’ activity, such as using the flashcards to answer multiplications facts with a partner; a ‘Make’ challenge, where we will use materials to build the tables; and a ‘Do’ challenge, such as the timestables.co.uk website.

We were also given a lovely Hallowe’en challenge from Mrs Govans to decorate two pumpkins for our local Pharmacy. The children worked so well in two small teams to design them, and I’m sure you’ll agree they look amazing.  We’d like to say a huge thank you to Catrine Pharmacy for donating the Pumpkins and be sure to check them out in the window if you are passing by.

We can’t believe we are at the end of Term One already. It has been such a busy term and P7 have all worked so hard and been super role models.

The children had great fun today down in P1,  playing with their buddies. They were especially pleased to see the dressing up box out.  I don’t know who had more fun, the P1s or the P7s!!

Have a lovely October holiday and we’ll see you on Tuesday 22nd October for the start of Term Two.

As a reward for all their hard work this term P7 are having a Movie Afternoon.  They have voted to watch Goosebumps which is rated PG. If you DO NOT wish your child to watch a PG rated movie, please contact the school by Wednesday lunchtime.

Thanks

Mrs McCaig

We had great fun at Rugby this week, with our visiting specialist, Blair.  The children listened well and worked in three teams to play against each other.

As part of our fundraising for our hoodies we are going to run a chocolate raffle.  To support this we are asking if each P7 pupil could bring in a chocolate bar of some kind, if possible.  Please note that it should not contain nuts.

Chocolate donations should be in to school for Wednesday 9th October ahead of the prize draw on Friday.

Thank you for your support with this.

We were having fun in PE learning how to play Rugby with Blair, the rugby specialist.

We researched Refugee charities around Scotland and today we made posters to advertise the charities.

by Eilidh

Primary Seven had a flying visit to the library this morning where they were able to pick out a new book to either take home or read in class. The books are due back on Thurs 10th October.

A few of the children still haven’t returned their book from last year. I have asked them to have a good look at home for it. If it is lost, this won’t be a problem, but you need to either write me a wee note to tell me or just phone Mrs Robertson to let her know and we will issue a new book on our next visit.

Our times tables homework focus was given out today in class.  This will run for the next four weeks. Pupils are free to choose a different times table each week that they feel they need to work on.  From here they should complete as many of the activities on the sheet as they can throughout the week.

By P7 the expectation is that pupils will know all times tables and have good recall of each.  This will support them in all other aspects of maths, especially fractions, decimals and percentages.  It will also prove to be a huge helping hand as they move to S1.  Lots of practise committing these to memory will be our table focus this session.

We can’t wait to see the improvements everyone makes.

Good luck and have fun.

Our numeracy morning was well attended by parents and carers and the children loved playing their games and showing off work to their families. We also loved getting baby cuddles from some of our youngest attendees! Thank you to all who managed to attend.

This week in PE, we continued our basketball lessons with Mrs McCaig and started skipping with Mrs Cook.