We have ‘March’ed into Spring!
We hope you enjoyed our amazing performance at the Church Spring Service. As Emma will tell you, we told the congregation about how things grow in Spring. Eleena really loved introducing our funny ‘Hay Fever’ song.
Excitingly, we are still Growing (Y)our Own Potatoes! Thank you to Sam and Lucy who looked after our bags of potato plants over the holidays. Also to Nimra and Ella who looked after the “Under the Soil experiment” potatoes, which let us see what is actually going on in the grow bags! (Thank you also to Emma, Millie, Eleena and Daniel who nurtured the other class plants).
Ruaridh is happy that Mrs Carey has taught us another new hand sign in Music. It is called ‘Do’. As Rio can tell you, you show it with a closed fist.
We are excited to have been trialling Talking Homework. Sam has loved it because he got to talk! Logan L enjoyed sharing his thoughts with his mum, dad and Apollo! For our third Talking Homework activity some of us brought in cute baby photos and we all had to guess who was who. Most people managed to recognise Lucy from her baby photo. Callum showed everyone his baby book.
We also used the Talking Homework discussion in RME to talk about what happens when a Muslim baby is born. As Nimra can tell us, something sweet is put on the baby’s gum, somebody whispers a prayer in the baby’s ear and then their hair is shaved off and the equivalent weight of gold or silver is given to charity. Musa also shared that the family has a party with their neighbours and friends and eat goat or lamb.
Ella loved hearing from our visitors from the Museum of Communications. They told us about AND SHOWED us many Scottish inventions that make a big difference in our lives.
Logan A has enjoyed using 2D shapes to make tiling patterns. He worked with a group to discover that circles and shapes with no flat sides do not tile, but also that not all flat 2D shapes tile with each other.
We have been working hard in grammar. Fatima knows that if she is asking something in writing, the sentence needs to end with a question mark.
We have had lots of fun with spreadsheets in ICT – Josh can even do multiplication and division calculations really easily!
Out of school, our achievements are wonderful as ever!!!
ACTIVE = Breac has learnt to do the Michael Jackson lean. Callum moved up a level at swimming. Sam moved up to Level 2 in skiing. Lucy can now do a dive.
ACHIEVING = Heather has learned to ride her bike with gears. Ruadhan has learned how to read complicated words in longer books. Millie has learnt ‘A Million Dreams’ on the piano. Nimra is now on the 16th Siphara, which makes her half way through reading the Quran. Amna was Pupil of the Week twice in a row!
HEALTHY = Josh climbed the Cobbler. Ruaridh scored 9 goals in one football game and played at Rugby Park!
INCLUDED = Sofia has joined a new gymnastics club.
RESPONSIBLE = Armeen makes her bed every day. Ailey has been washing the dishes. Daniel helped his dad put down some new grass.
NURTURING = Eleena has been helping her mum with housework.
Literacy and Numeracy
Our learning in these areas will draw upon the contexts listed above but will differ according to the needs of each class / group. Your support with consolidation of core learning through homework activities will be very beneficial to our children.
Article 13
You have the right to find out things and say what you think, through making art, speaking and writing unless it breaks the rights of others.
