We now have a wonderful new school library where we are timetabled to go with Mrs Britton. We went this week and we really enjoyed the experience. Here we are enjoying it.

Here are all the sheep ready to Shimmy for the Christmas Nativity!

We have started a new RME topic all about the Parables of Jesus.  We listened to and discussed the story of the two builders or the wise man and the foolish man.  We talked about the message of the story and how we should always work hard in everything that we do and be kind to others.

We used different building materials and tried to build a house on cushions to be like the foolish man who took the easy way out.  We then built a house on solid foundations – it was more difficult to knock down.  We decided we would rather be like the wise man. We also designed our own dream homes!

Party Hats

Carrying on with instructional writing in our comprehension we read some instructions about how to make a party hat. We answered all the questions related to the instructions then made our own hat. We are wearing them on our heads in the first photo.

Fruit Kebabs

In Health we have been talking about healthy foods and snacks. We made some fruit kebabs which are a great healthy snack. We then wrote instructions for them as well.

We have been learning how to write instructions within our writing lessons. We are making sure that we include a ‘you will need’ list and that our instructions are clear and easy to follow. We made cucumber sandwiches to help us get the right order. We even ate them afterwards😋

We all had a fab time at our Halloween party and as it was our PE time we even managed to have it in the hall! Dancing, games and party food were all enjoyed thanks to the Parent Council donation!

We have been studying Scottish Inventors this month. We learned about Alexander Graham Bell and how he invented the telephone so we re-created our own basic telephones to communicate with each other! They did work!

Primary 3 have been enjoying learning about Space.

We made models to demonstrate that the earth spins around the sun and the moon orbits the earth.  We also investigated how the moon reflects the suns light using a torch as the sunlight. We had great fun creating our own craters on the moon using space rocks.

Have a look at our learning so far!

This week is National Maths Week and we have been focusing on symmetry . We went outdoors to try to create some symmetrical patterns using natural materials from the our playground. We did find it tough to be completely symmetrical but we made a good attempt. We also the created symmetrical patterns using 3D objects in the classroom.  We created our own symmetrical pattern first then we created half of one for our partner to complete. We enjoyed doing it!

We have all returned back to school and we have moved round to the middle school corridor. We are settling in to our new classroom and the new playgrounds. We like the opportunity to use the Active Trail and the bottom playground for sports. We are not able to show you our faces yet so here is some of our work.

1. We studied the artist Andy Warhol who creates repeated images in very bright colours. It is called Pop Art. We chose to use donuts and cupcakes in our design.

2. We wrote some Acrostic Poems using our names. We tried to think of words to describe ourselves or things that we like.

3. We created our very own McMoo picture. We based them on the artist Jennifer Hogwood who creates lovely images of Highland cows .