“In writing this week we were writing in 1^st person to describe the events from a short film. We were writing from the perspective of a character from the film, you could pick the character, either a boy or an alien.” Ava and Haniya

“We had our Christmas party this week. We had some drinks and snacks. Then we went to the hall and played pass the parcel, musical statues, the corner game and we danced.” Zakir

“In art with Mrs Hutchison we made labels for our sketch books. We learnt how to do bubble writing and used our shading and toning skills.” Lucy

“In the woodland we built Christmas sleighs and some people built a ginger bread café.” Rosie and Amina

“We used Tinkercad to design a new sleigh for Santa. First we watched a video about a company that had made a hover board (it took them 403 days). We designed a sleigh that could fly without reindeer.” Alfie and Ross J

“We did some science experiments. We worked in groups. We had to separate materials like paper clips and rice, flour and raisins, sand and water, and salt and water. We used magnets, filter paper and a funnel, and a sieve. Mr Flood boiled the salt and water until all the water evaporated and left the salt behind.” Helena and Daryn

“We made dodecahedrons and turned them until Christmas baubles. We got to decorate them in any way we liked. We had to glue them together using tabs and then they turned into Christmas baubles.”

“On Wednesday morning we went to ADVENTure trail at the Baptist Church. We got to do crafts and they even performed a little drama. We were learning about the Christmas story and how Christians believe Jesus was born.” Rosie

“In science we were putting materials into water to see if they dissolved or not. We then filled out a sheet about what materials we used and how we did it.” Emily

“In Literacy we practised handwriting. We created dialogue for a silent film and practised speech marks. We also worked on our comprehension skills.” Zakir, Ella and Harris.

“In maths my group sorted decimals on a number line. We also counted up and down in decimals.” Dawud

“In maths our group practised algebra. We did some problem solving using alebra.” Charlotte and Alfie

We also took our maths work outside. In class we had debated if natural or artificial objects were more likely to be symmetrical. So, we found out my investigating around the school.

“We’ve been learning about road safety this week. We designed posters to encourage people to be safe on the roads, especially for drivers to slow down. We’ve also been thinking about our road safety heroes and people who help us be safe around roads. We drew some pictures of road safety heroes in action. Some people wrote letters to our local MSP asking him to make changes to make roads safer.” Blake, Rosie, Becki, Zakir and Jenny

“The three JRSOs in our class, Lucy, Charlotte and Cameron, have been going around classes with quizzes. Each year group gets different questions, matched to their age. The winner gets a prize!” Cameron

“In the Woodland we made patterns with different coloured leaves. We made dragons, Pikachus, rainbow crocodiles, trees, fires, lightening, rainbows and flowers.” Primary 6

“With Mrs Hutchison we worked on shading to help us draw 3D objects.” Jude

“In Maths the cuboids started learning about decimals and the triangular prisms were doing algebra, and the spheres were working on BODMAS.” Zakir

“In writing we continued editing our writing and we redrafted a piece of writing from earlier this term.” Lucy

“In music we worked on the Carnival Animals. We looked at 5 more animals. My favourite was the aquarium, it was mysterious and scary.” Isla

“In P.E we continued playing football, we played numbers football.” Olivia

“On Thursday we worked on our handwriting. WE practised all the letters that come back towards us and made sure tall letters touched the line above.” Habiba

“Friday was a dress as you please day. We all brought presents for next Friday’s present room. Alfie was wearing a giant Santa head and Harris was an elf!” Ross J