Feel now as if we’ve been together all our lives! After our last blog, telling of all our routines etc. that we’d put in place, we’ve noticed being a lot busier. With school work it has to be said, but that can be fun too as we’ve found out. There seems to have been so many different ‘days’ to report about. We had the Cycling extravaganza (at last count this had raised over £3000) which we loved being part of – we easily beat our target number of laps through cycling, scootering and running. Even Mr Burns brought his bike in – a Penny Farthing I think he called it. We look forward to benefiting from all the P.E. equipment that can now be bought for the school (pics). We also enjoyed St Cadoc’s feast day which has moved to September from January! A nice prayer service and a fun Talent Show was how we celebrated, along with a little treat from Canon Eddie (pics). We’re in the middle of Maths Week Scotland, European Day of Languages was yesterday and last week we created recipes for International Day of Peace – like we said, busy busy with lots of variety too (pics)’

In terms of ‘normal’ school life we’ve been learning about BODMAS (the order of operations), function machines (early algebra) division with remainders and some multiplication during Maths. In Language we’ve been doing some poetry, parts of speech in grammar, some dictation (Mr Burns’s choice!) and a focus on handwriting and general good presentation of all our jotters. Sounds like Mr Burns is not going to let that go so we better just do as he says. We’ve decided our topic to be a timeline of the history of Scotland which will allow us each to investigate, as we go along, any particular part or aspect that really grabs our interest. Outdoor Learning continues, come hail, rain or shine, and we enjoyed creating our own verbal biography stories of a random object we found in the forest.

October week soon – perhaps the most newsworthy item – speak again at the end of the month. Having fun here and learning (pics). Thanks.

Yours