P4a have been busy achieving many wonderful things such as moving up classes in football and winning medals in competitions. Achievements have also been made in gymnastics, swimming, karate, climbing and roller skating.  Others made achievements in reading, playing violin, guitar playing and riding bikes.  Achievements were also made by others looking after dogs, training a puppy, making breakfast and baking banana loaf.  Helping to save energy at home, controlling a remote controlled toy, helping little brothers and bravely holding a snake complete our achievements for this month.  No wonder we are so proud of everyone!

In ICT we have continued to improve our editing skills on Microsoft Word and Publisher, both in text and image. We are now going to record short film clips on the iPad or FlipCam and try to edit the clips. During RME, we are starting our Christmas lessons, with a focus on Christmas around the world. We will need to use our research skills to find out information and work co-operatively to create a poster about how Christmas is celebrated in a different country.  We are learning a lot about weather and can confidently say what the weather is like in French.  We enjoyed a wonderful visit to the Edinburgh Butterfly and Insect World to further our learning on sorting animals.  We had the opportunity to handle snakes, tarantulas and millipedes.  Many of us were keen to hold the animals and some were brave to give it a try.  Well done everyone!

Dan said, “It was amazing holding the tarantula!”

“I thought the snake was so heavy,” commented Nathan.