To celebrate Book Week Scotland 2017,  the children had a visit from a wonderful storyteller called Gerry Durkin.

“I loved it when he taught us the song Ma Maw’s a Millionaire, I couldn’t stop laughing”- Matthew

“The song about the Glasgow cat called Sam the Skull was so funny” – Amelie

P2.1 Drop Everything And Read (DEAR)

Thank you Primary 7.1 for writing your own script, creating and designing props and for performing a fantastic Puppet Show for our class.

“The start of the show was funny when all the puppets jumped up” – Emily

“I liked the parrot puppet, he made me laugh” – Austin

“The puppet show was really funny. The parrot squawked and copied what the P7 girls said” – James

“We were all shouting BOO!  to the evil puppet called Dr Boom” -Cara

“The monkey puppet was funny, he pretended to bite my finger” – Jessica

As part of Try a Sport Week, Primary 2.1 were learning about yoga postures, breathing and relaxation techniques.

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“Yoga helped us to feel calm” – Finlay

“I liked the relaxation part when we were quiet and still”- Archie

The children also had an opportunity to learn new skills in Handball. They passed a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the other team.

“I’ve never played Handball before, but it was so much fun” – Oliver

“We played in two teams and it was a draw” – Cairn

“I loved Handball, it was one of the best games ever” – Tom

“I was cheering loud for my team to win” – Blake

“I used different sizes of sticks to make my name” – Ava

“I was collecting leaves, berries and bark to make a Harvest present for the animals” – Archie

“I made a little restaurant for the birds. It had white and red berries” – Amber

During ICT, Primary 2.1 have been working collaboratively with Primary 7.2   to create their own short movies using Stop Motion.

I can create, capture and manipulate sounds, text and images to communicate experiences, ideas and information in creative and engaging ways.

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“My movie was called The Burst Ball, a mean girl burst the children’s ball” – Blake

“I made a movie called The Bully, he was trying to push everybody over” – Finlay

Today we took part in the Sponsored Bounce.

“We had fun jumping up and down on the trampolines” – Oscar

“I raised money for the school to buy lots of new toys” – Andrew

“I did twirly jumps off the trampolines” – Clarissa

Thank you so much for all your kind donations.

Austin, our Gardening Gang member picked some wonderful vegetables from our Eaglesham School Garden.

The Gardening Gang then worked together to create a delicious roasted vegetable dish.

We designed different kinds of robots and shared our ideas with each other.

“I’ve designed lots of big Everything robots, they can help you to do everything around your house” – Ruairi

“My robot is a dog called Sky, he can help you with homework” – Rhona

“Our robot is called Resta Ronia,  she helps to do lots of jobs in a restaurant, like make the meals, wash the dishes and serve the tables” – Freya & Macy

We then used lots of different types of construction materials to build our robot models.

                           Our Robots of the Future

Resta Ronia   – Freya & Macy

Disco Bot    – Rebecca                           Droid Bot  – Tom   &   Oscar

Flying Bot – Andrew

“I’m using my magnetic board to make tricky words” – Tom

“I was painting Macy’s hand for our Class Charter”  – Femke

” I’m drawing a picture about my rights and responsibilities” – Austin