This week we enjoyed creating Harry Potter potions during our outdoor learning time.

Following our Outdoor Learning time we used air drying clay to make Harry Potter sculptures to put in our Woodland Area to inspire creative play amongst our peers.  Initially we found the clay quite hard to work with, but once the clay heated up and we used a bit of water to moisten it, we were able to create lots of great sculptures.

Harry Potter!

Sorting Hat

Hogwarts Express

We hope everyone has a great September weekend no matter what you have planned.

This week we have started learning about China as part of our comparison study with Scotland. We learnt that Beijing is the capital of China.  We identified where the Great Wall of China is on a map.  The Great Wall of China was built to separate the people in the north of China from those in the south. We learnt that the shape of China on a map looks a bit like a chicken.

We then chose a Scottish city to compare with a city in China.  We identified the population, landmarks, local food and drinks found in both cities.

With Miss Campbell we have been learning about Scottish artists.  Using the Scottish artist Steven Brown for inspiration, we have created our own ‘McCoos’ using line and colour.

This week, we started looking at art by the Scottish artist Gillian Kyle.  We started creating our own Tunnock’s tea cake design using lines to create a pattern.

This week we began our outdoor learning.  We learnt how to identify trees by their leaves.

We managed to find a lady bug!

Once we identified the trees in the woodland area, we done some leaf rubbings.

We discovered we had lots of Beech trees in the Woodland Area.  However, we were disappointed to find we don’t have have any Horse Chestnut trees, therefore we won’t have any conkers in the autumn.

This week we identified Scottish mountains using atlases. We used the key in the atlas to colour the mountain ranges to show how high they are.

We have continued to develop our dribbling skills in hockey this week.  We managed to completed a drill where we were passing the ball to one another in the shape of a Union Jack.  We are proud of ourselves for this achievement.

We enjoyed the challenge of collecting a hockey ball from the centre of the field and shooting at the nearest goal before our friends.

In maths, we have been working on a range of skills which include revising or learning new times tables and learning how to interpret data from a range of different graphs .

This week we enjoyed creating fact files about Scottish landmarks.  We enjoyed using the Chrome books and creating our fact files on a Word document.  This allowed us to use a range of ICT skills.

We have also written imaginative stories using a Scottish castle and forest in our setting.