Welcome back to Primary 1D.

This week we have been learning about shape and have found different shapes in lots of interesting places. We went on a shape hunt in the playground and then noticed that the airplanes in the sky were making lines and so we lay down and found even more shapes in the sky (and a cloud shaped like a dinosaur).

Before the holidays we made Sensory Salt Dough leaves. We added Cloves, Cinnamon and All Spice to the dough and so when we returned to school, the classroom smelled lovely.

In PE, we have started developing our gymnastics skills. we have been learning all about staying safe in the gym hall, working together to move the gymnastics equipment and making shapes with our bodies (with all the excitement of the children changing into gym kits for the first time, Mrs Dougall forgot to take the camera to the gym hall, but promises to take lots of photos next week!)

We had a special visitor in the classroom called Julien. He is a teacher in a school in Cannes and told us all about where he lives and the school day in France. We enjoyed practicing our French speaking skills and Julien enjoyed helping us with our writing lesson.

The whole school are now spending one afternoon each week Developing the Young Workforce and for the first block, we are working on Life Skills, starting with food, food hygiene and nutrition. We have been learning about the importance of clean hands and safe use of knives. We made spooky orange pumpkins. I was very impressed with how responsible the children were.

We are all proud of our fruit pumpkins!