This week we started our block of learning about painting. We started by exploring the colour wheel and discussed the primary colours we can mix to make secondary colours. We had a go at mixing blue and yellow and used these skills to paint some balloons in blue, yellow and green.

We then discussed the technique of blending and using this and our skill of mixing we created our own seascapes. We still need to add our fish to them!

On Friday, we mixed two different colours to make orange. We painted red, yellow and orange squares which we will turn into houses.

We also completed our learning for now about time by exploring time on a digital clock. We matched analogue and digital times together and then had a go at writing our own digital time on whiteboards by looking at an analogue clock.

We love to solve problems in P1A and this week we had a go at making numbers using a variety of resources. We were challenged to make a number in different ways and then had to think if there is a way we can show the number by using two numbers together or even three!

During PE on Thursday we brought the parachute out to finish our lesson with some fun games. The parachute always causes lots of excitement but makes us think about working together as a team and the games also require lots of listening!

This week we started learning about Scotland. Most of the photos we received have been shared with the class and some children enjoyed presenting their photo to the class. There was lots of excitement when the children realised they had also visited the same place!

We used Google Earth to help us understand where each of the places were and this allowed us to see if it was close to home or much further away. We have already managed to visit the North of Scotland on the map and also as far South as you can go. There were lots of amazing locations in between to discuss too!

We would love to see some more places you have visited so if you have not sent in your photo there is still time!

As we bring our learning about animals to a close we enjoyed learning about different animal habitats this week. We explored various habitats and each chose one to draw. We had to consider what the habitats looks like and also the animals that would live in that habitat.

We also loved watching the live cameras at Edinburgh Zoo and enjoyed looking for penguins, tigers, lions and giraffes and looking at what their habitats look like in a zoo. We were extremely excited when the tiger appeared and some of us cosied up and waited patiently to see more.

We also spotted the penguins sliding on their tummies and decided to try and move like them.

We also started learning about ‘o’clock’ this week. We have explored this on an analogue clock and practised making the time together. Next week we will complete our learning about Time by looking at digital clocks.

Welcome to our first blog of 2026!

It has been lovely to welcome the children back to school and hear about their time over the Christmas break. Everyone has settled back into the routine of school after our first full week back and it has been lovely to see the enthusiasm the children have shown towards their learning.

We have been learning about Time and begun this by discussing the seasons.

We sorted pictures of things that happen during the year and placed them in the correct season.

We drew pictures to show that we understand what happens in each season.

We then learned about the months of the year and discussed what a calendar is and what it is used for.

Next week we will be moving onto telling the time using o’clock.

We used our knowledge of the seasons to create a calendar which we will be bringing home next week to share with our grown ups. We painted a tree and then used tissue paper to show the different colours we see on trees each season.

This week we brought our Health and Wellbeing topic about Growth Mindset to an end by reading Giraffe’s Can’t Dance. We have created our own amazing art work based on the front cover of the book but also discussed what we can do  and what we are proud of in Primary 1A. We then wrote a sentence so we can share all of our amazing talents on our class display!

We will keep discussing a Growth Mindset in class and using this to help us think positively when we find something tricky!

On Wednesday we had a lovely afternoon at our Christmas party.

We enjoyed party games, a snack and a drink and a special visit from Santa himself!

We sang Jingle Bells and then all of a sudden we could hear sleigh bells!

We listened to Santa tell us how busy he has been recently and then sang him a song from our Nativity and another couple of Christmas songs.

We were delighted when we found out Santa had brought us all a gift and enjoyed showing each other which book we had received.

After the excitement of Santa it was back up the hall for some party games (sorry about the light in the photo).

Wishing you all a lovely festive break!

The excitement has been building and the countdown has been on for Christmas!

We hope you all enjoyed our Nativity last week. All of the children  worked incredibly hard for this and were all very excited to perform for their families. It was a pleasure to see so many smiling faces at the end 🙂

Over the past week we have been completing some Christmas art along with Christmas themed targets.

We used our 2D shape knowledge to colour the Christmas tree the correct colour.

We created a ‘snow storm’ by mixing blue and white paint and dabbing onto the paper with a circle sponge.

We then glued ‘ourselves’ onto the storm and decorated our work with some sparkles.

After printing our hand print on to the front of the card, we decorate our fingers to make them snowmen. We then wrote a message on the front and inside of the card.

We listened to the music from the Snowman and had to imagine then draw what we thought was happening. There were many amazing ideas including flying to the moon, riding on a horse and a spider climbing a mountain! We then watched the short film to find out what was really happening!

Last week Primary 1A were so busy preparing for our Nativity that Mrs Agnew forgot to post on our blog.

However in between practices we did have time to complete our Christmas craft for the school fair. We decorated cones with tissue paper and then adding sequins before to make them sparkle. We finished them off by cutting out stars and sticking them on the top. Thank you to those who came along to the stall and bought our beautiful trees!

We also coloured in a Nativity scene and then wrote an invitation to our grown ups, inviting them to our Nativity. We discussed what we need to include in an invitation and formed our invite together.

We have also been enjoying our Christmas Corner. We absolutely love decorating and redecorating the felt Christmas tree and having a go at writing our own Christmas cards. We are learning key words such as ‘to’ and ‘from’ and how to lay out a card.

When we started learning about animals, lots of us showed an interest in what animals eat and why they eat certain things. This week we learned about carnivores, herbivores and omnivores and the difference between them.

In small groups, we discussed what certain animals eat and then sorted them into one of the categories based on the information we had learned.

We have been absolutely loving our Junk Modelling area and the plan is to continue this until the Christmas holiday. Many of us have got extremely creative with the junk and it has developed helped with our drawing and cutting skills.

Super Geraldine the Giraffe

A boat

Working together to develop our drawing skills. There was a lot of time spent on this activity.

A mop

A vampire castle with a dungeon

On Friday, all three P1 classes visited the hall to see the stage which has now been built. It was very helpful for everyone to see where they would be performing their Nativity and we used this time to practise all of the songs together.

Thank you to everyone who came along to the Open Afternoons this week.

We have recently started learning about Animals and this week we linked our ‘Story of the Week’ to this learning. We have been enjoying Monkey Puzzle written by Julia Donaldson and the activities were related to the story.

We enjoyed solving riddles and drawing our answer.

Completing a cut and stick activity. We had to use our sound knowledge to help match the word to the correct picture.

Completing a puzzle by rolling the dice.

Our most anticipated activity was mask making. Lots of amazing masks were created!

We also just loved sharing our classroom with our visitors, especially the block area.

On Monday we walked to Mearns Library to mark Book Week Scotland.

We enjoyed some very funny stories, sang a few songs and were then gifted our Bookbug bags which we carried all the way back to school.

We discussed the stories further in class and also read the remaining book from our bags together.

Thank you to our parent helpers who came on the trip with us and also to Mearns Library for making our time there so enjoyable!