Just two days in school this week, but we have packed lots in!

We have turned our narrative stories into books using Book Creator. We had to think carefully how to split our story across the pages.

We then learned how to collaborate on a Book with a friend to create information all about staying safe online for Internet Safety Day 2026.

We have conducted our own surveys in Maths and displayed our findings. We have also completed a review of our learning.

In PE, and dance, we played some team games and also worked together to create our own dances.

We enjoyed working as a whole class team with loose parts to create a huge cloning machine invention!

In Art, we have created some Valentine’s inspired Pop Art, exploring how to make pastel colours.

Enjoy your break, everyone!

This week we have been learning about Victorian toys and have been exploring how they have evolved. We have been finding out about jobs children had during this time and we acted this out during drama in groups. We used Book Creator to turn what we have learned about life for children in this time, developing our ICT skills.

We have continued to write narrative stories and we gave feedback to each other to develop our stories further.

In Mathematics and Numeracy, we have been developing skills in data handling, including analysing data and being accurate when drawing our own graphs and charts.

In Art, we have been using shade and tone in our drawings of birds we observed in our playground.

We have been exploring renewable energy in Science and worked in teams to create Hydrogen Fuel Cells.

We have been learning our French numbers up to 70 and playing games to help us remember.

In P.E, we have been working on our rugby skills, playing our first games. We have continued Scottish dances and enjoyed the Virginia Reel.

We continue to learn new chords in Ukulele and are improving at changing between them. We enjoyed our drumming lessons with Mr Foggo.

This week, we have been comparing and contrasting our school life to Victorian times. We took part in a Victorian day in class, where we had to follow very strict rules. We sat in rows and had to work on slates to write our work. We enjoyed a drama lesson acting out a Victorian school day and adopting a role.

We have been developing our narrative writing skills and focusing on an engaging beginning to middle with lots of description and a plot twist. We have been looking to use figurative language and have been learning more about personification.

We have enjoyed taking part in the Sumdog Maths contest this week and have been trying hard to be accurate with out mental maths. We have been developing our trial and error skills in problem solving and drawing and reading line graphs in our Maths work.

We have also taken part in the RSPB Big Bird Watch and will analyse our data.

In Science, we have been exploring renewable energy in transport and designed and labelled our own ideas.

We have been exploring what to do with worries in HWB and how exercise, sleep and diet can contribute to a healthy lifestyle. In PE, we have been developing our skills in gymnastics and rugby. We have also continued to learn Scottish dances.

 

We have continued to develop our use of similes and metaphors in our writing this week and we created descriptions of a setting, focusing on using our senses.

We have been working hard to learn our Scottish poems and have analysed key features of them. We used this analysis to help us create a piece of artwork based on our poem, where we had a choice of materials.

In our Victorians topic, we have been learning about inventions from that era. We used ICT skills to research and then create digital information posters about different inventors. We also enjoyed using loose parts to create our own inventions. We used these ideas in drama when creating short scenes.

In Numeracy, we have been working at learning our 8 x table at speed. We have also been learning more about division and data handling.

Following our observation of birds in our playground, we made some bird feeders as part of our outdoor learning.

We have been learning how to describe our favourite hobbies in French.

 

This week, we have been developing our use of language in our writing, including the use of similes and metaphors in our stories and poems.  We each created a school based character and wrote detailed description about our character. We have been developing our comprehension, spelling and handwriting skills.

In Numeracy and Maths, we have been developing our skills in dividing and focusing on learning the 6 x table. We have been learning more about angles and directions.

We have been learning more about Queen Victoria and created timelines of key events. We also used observation skills to draw a portrait of her. We have been developing our character skills in drama from the Victorian era.

We have enjoyed a session of rugby again this week and also we have continued to learn more Scottish dances.

In Health, we have been exploring what to do with worries and who our back up team are.

We enjoyed participating in a live French lesson this week with other pupils from across Scotland.

We developed our skills in playing F and C chords in Ukulele.

In Science, we have been learning more about electricity and renewable energy. We took on the role of data analysts and discussed jobs for the future.

We enjoyed taking time to notice some of the birds in our playground as we get ready to participate in the RSPB Big Birdwatch.

 

It has been lovely to welcome everyone back to school. We started the year off by thinking about our New Year’s resolutions. We thought about what we wanted to achieve in and out of school.

We have started a block of story writing. We enjoyed using a picture stimulus of a frozen castle to create an interesting and entertaining story.

This week, we have been attending a Skills Academy of our choice. We have been four times this week and we had a choice of gymnastics, Kapla, art or Microbits. It has been fun working with children from different classes and developing our skills.

In Numeracy and Maths, we have been learning about multiplication and division of whole and decimal numbers by 10, 100, 1000. We have all been learning about compass directions. We used trial and error in our problem solving.

In P.E and Dance, we have developed our skills in working together and cooperating.

We have begun our new topic of The Victorians by thinking about what we know and what we would like to learn. We have created fact files about Queen Victoria and learned lots of interesting facts.

We have continued our drumming skills with Mr Foggo.

In Science, we have been learning about gears as part of our electricity learning.

As part of our home learning, we have all chosen a Scottish poem and will work on it in class too. We identified some Scottish words we were unsure of and found their meanings.

On Thursday we attended the Church with the whole school to sing lots of Christmas songs and hear the Christmas story.

 

In class we have been busy making Christmas decorations and calendars ready for the New Year. We are looking forward to bringing them home.

 

We have completed our work on Money and Decimals and have completed an assessment to show our understanding of the topic. We have also been working on our 6 and 7 times tables since we are such fans of these numbers!

 

We have written Christmas themed Haiku poems and we have been developing our use of commas and descriptive language.

 

We watched and reviewed the John Lewis Christmas advert and explored the message behind it.

 

In Science, we have been exploring the uses of batteries and how they are made and we have further developed our skills in creating and drawing circuits.

 

Today, we enjoyed a Christmas sing a long in the hall with the whole school and we competed in groups to complete a Christmas quiz.

 

It has been a very busy term and we hope everyone relaxes and has a lovely Christmas and New Year when it comes.

 

It is beginning to feel a lot like Christmas in school! It was our Christmas party this week and we all had lots of fun playing games and dancing. Lots of us enjoyed Christmas lunch too. We enjoyed watching the P1 Nativity on Friday. We also made Christmas cards to take home at the end of term. In our artwork, we designed snow globes with a snowman inside.

We wrote Winter Cinquain poems this week and learned about the criteria required, including nouns, verbs and adjectives. We have also been developing our skills in using commas. Also in Writing, we wrote a review/response to give our thoughts on pointillism as an art style.

We have been sharing our individual presentations on how we can make a difference and what makes us unique, also who inspires us. We have peer-assessed and given feedback on how we can improve.

In our Numeracy work, we have been learning about budgeting with our money and calculations to work out the best buy. We enjoyed Christmas shopping but didn’t enjoy having to stick to a budget!

In our topic work, we have been learning about people who have challenged discrimination and we created an information poster about Rosa Parks who challenged racism.

We have been learning about famous figures in RME and explored the Buddha.

We have been developing our skills in handball in P.E and our team working skills.

In Loose Parts, we completed a team challenge called ‘The Ground is Lava’! Lots of fun and great cooperation skills on show.

Today has been a busy day, with it being our first Festive Friday! Today we made Christmas cards for our community bags using a mosaic technique. We also attended our committees and wished farewell and best wishes to our janitor, Rory.

In drama, we explored the theme of bullying through a poem and we considered the feelings of different characters in a school playground.

We have been learning about different types of discrimination in our topic and learned more about xenophobia. We explored this topic through our class novel, The Boy at the Back of the Class. We discussed how to be upstanders rather than bystanders.

We have continued to develop note-taking skills and we chose our own topics to write an information report about.

In Numeracy, we have been developing or skills in multiplication and division linked to money. We also learned about cross sections of shapes in Maths.

We have been learning the skills needed for Handball in P.E and have worked well in teams.

In French, we have been using colours to describe food items.

 

Today we had a visit from our local MP, Wendy Chamberlain. This was to celebrate UK Parliament week. We asked lots of good questions and shared our ideas for making a difference with her. We created our own political parties this week and we each took on a role as part of these parties. We had to agree what our main issue was and how we planned to achieve this. We presented our ideas to the class and then we carried out a vote as part of a mini election.

 

On Monday, we shared our learning from our assembly, and it was great to see everyone contribute lots of great learning confidently. We shared presentations, poems, artwork and songs.

 

Also, this week we have been continuing to develop our information report writing skills. We took notes beforehand and have been using our skimming and scanning techniques to do this.

 

In Numeracy, we have been applying our skills to adding decimal numbers within the context of money. We have been using our mental maths skills to calculate change.

 

In Art, we have created beautiful paintings of Winter robins. These will go on display in our school hall for everyone to see.

 

We have developed our fitness skills further in P.E in circuits and we have been recording our scores to see if we can set targets to improve.

 

Today, we met in our pupil committees again for the second time this term. We are working hard to achieve our set goals.