We enjoyed World Book Day celebrations this week; there were lots of great costumes and props on show. We had fun completing quizzes, art activities and maths puzzles. We also had an author live event with Holly Webb on Monday, who told us all about her new book and what it takes to be author.

We have continued our work on fractions this week, and finding an amount of a fraction. We have also been adding and subtracting fractions.

In Writing, we have written another procedural piece and how to make a Victorian Sponge. We looked to see if we could include adverbs in our writing.

In P.E, we have been developing our skills in gymnastics and hockey. We have been planning a healthy day of eating, thinking about the eatwell balanced plate.

We have designed front covers books in art for the P7 World Book Day competition, all about Buttercup, our school mascot.

In Science, we have been learning about carbon capture and carried out experiments involving lemon juice and bicarbonate of soda!

We enjoyed outdoor learning with P1/2 and creating characters and scenes from books with natural materials.

In French, we have been learning about animals and how to ask others what pets they have.

We continue to develop our music skills with Mr Foggo in drumming.

This week we have been exploring food and cooking during Victorian times. We have learned about the differences between rich and poor diets and the difference to our diets. We have used ICT to display our findings.  We linked this to the Eatwell plate to compare balanced diets from then to now. We also planned our own healthy day of eating, looking to make it balanced in our Health and Wellbeing work.

We finished making our Victorian Houses and gave feedback to each other on what we liked and what could be improved. In our Writing this week, we have been learning about writing clear and detailed instructions on how to make our Victorian houses. We learned about the use of Imperative (bossy) verbs and how to set them out correctly.

We have continued our learning on fractions and how to find equivalent fractions and how to simplify them to. We have begun learning how to find fractions of an amount using our division skills. We created pizzas to show our understanding of equivalent fractions.

In P.E, we have been learning about different balances and rolls in gymnastics. We completed our final session of rugby too.

In French, we have been learning about how to ask and say where we live, colours and numbers.

We conducted experiments in Science about how to use different materials to stop ice from melting. We wrote up our findings into a science report, summing up what we know about insulators.

In outdoor learning, we looked at our bird feeders and used natural materials to create nests.

In Drama, we have been taking on character roles from Victorian times and making short scenes to present to an audience.

We have continued to develop our drumming skills with Mr Foggo.

In Art, we have been developing our line drawing skills and thinking about our foreground, middle ground and background in our Victorian pictures.

This week, we have continued to learn about Victorians. We used loose parts to create our own Workhouse. We also looked at features of Victorians Houses and used junk materials to create our own in small groups, after conducting some research and then planning.

In our writing, we have written letters to Victorian children in 1850 to tell them all about life in 2026. We learned how to set out a letter correctly. We have also been learning more about the use of apostrophes and rhetorical questions in our written work.

In Numeracy, we have been using Excel software to create graphs and charts. We have also been learning about fractions, including equivalent fractions.

We have been developing our skills in gymnastics and also enjoyed taster sessions of judo and rugby for PE this week.

In Science, we have been learning about heat from renewable energy sources. We took on the role of Heat Network Planners to calculate heat costs for a village.

We carried out some outdoor learning with our friends from P2 and put our bird feeders out for our birds in the playground to enjoy.

 

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.