The children have been really engaging with our topic “people who help us”. The children shared people they would like to hear from about their jobs. The fire brigade came to show their truck and answer questions. They asked very topical and interesting questions.

The children enjoyed taking part of red nose day and the activities that were organised. The p7 house captains did such a good job running the stations.

Weather is changing and it is so lovely being outside. 🌞  The children really enjoyed being outside for muddy movers. We were building, painting with mud, and making mud pies. 🥧

Hope the sun and warm weather continues. 🌞

We have had a busy month of learning. We have been learning about electricity. Together we went a walk around the school to find items that use electricity such as computers, lights and the boards. We created our own circuits and have had it left out you experiment with, it has been great fun.

We have also been working on our addition and subtraction skills. We have become very confident at creating different ways to make the same amount.

Tricky words have been still tricky but we have been putting them into sentencens to show our understanding.

Lastly we have been learning about money. We can identify our coins and notes. We can create amounts in different ways and have been using technology to challenge ourselves.

Primary 1 have been learning about countries around the world from France to Canada. The children have loved learning about the flags, languages, and traveling to these countries.

We looked at Scotland too and the celebration of Robert Burns with Scottish people. We had a piper come into the school to play for us and he was wearing a traditional kilt.

We all got to dance around together to the pipes being played.

We also made some Scottish biscuits.  The children helped to weigh out the ingredients and follow the recipe.  Together we mixed it together, rolled it out and cut the biscuits.

They were very tasty.  😋

Santa sent some of his reindeers to visit our school. Dasher and Dancer were very excited to come see all the boys and girls at Cross Arthurlie Primary School.

Everyone got to feed the reindeers some carrots which was very exciting.

We had the primary 7 children come to visit us and complete a STEM challenge together. We had to all create a Santa’s Sleigh using construction items. The sleighs were very successful and they had a great amount of detail. 🎅

To finish off our festive end to school this year we had our Christmas party. It was so much fun with loads of different party games, and even ended with an exciting visitor. Primary 1 are very excited for Christmas.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everuone in Primary 1.

The children enjoyed the different activities we had at school to raise money for children in need. Wearing jammies was a lot of fun and very cozy!

We all had fun taking part in some games in the gym hall that our house captains organised.

We also went to the “toy sale” where the children could buy toys, books, or teddies that were kindly donated by people.

Lastly we had our buddies come down to our class to help us make some Pudsey bear ears. We all worked together to measure our bands, colour our ears and put it all together. They looks brilliant!

Primary 1 have been learning about fairtrade foods. We looked at the importance of foods having the “fairtrade” logo and what it means for the farmers.

We used some different fairtrade foods in our cooking to see how many food are fairtrade. We first made apple crumble.

We also made some yummy pumpkin soup for our Halloween week. We took part in cutting all the vegetables safely. Everyone has the chance to try the soup if they wanted to, some even had seconds. 🍵🧑‍🍳

We will try use our skills again soon to make more yummy foods!

We have been exploring nature as the children opened their own conkers. Using seasonal colours linked to autumn they created beautiful, bright conker paintings.

The primary 5 buddies wrote some very interesting stories linked to Mr Men. We went up to our buddies classroom in primary 5 and they read the stories to us. We created our own Mr and Mrs men together using our team work and colour pens. It was so much fun.

Primary 1 have worked so hard for their first couple of weeks. We have been learning our first sounds of “s” and “a”. Looking at our numbers 0-10.

They particularly enjoyed exploring the new area outside of Muddy Movers. While digging the children managed to find different insects such as worms and snails. They had great communication and sharing skills while out there.