Happy New Year to all! We have had a busy first week back at school. We have enjoyed having our Skills Academies again this week and we have all been learning or developing a new skill; gymnastics, origami, STEM or board games.

We have started a block of learning on Imaginative writing and enjoyed creating science fiction types stories this week after watching a short stimulus on a robot. We have also started our new class Novel – The Nowhere Emporium. We completed a challenge to design a front cover after only hearing the blurb.

In Numeracy and Maths, we have been developing our skills in information handling and interpreting different types of graphs and charts.

We have been learning about the importance of staying connected in Health and Wellbeing as one of the 5 ways to Wellbeing. In one task, we paired up with someone else in the class and found out more about them. We also thought about people we could connect with more and how we might do this. In P.E, we have been developing our skills in gymnastics and dance.

We have been learning to play some Scottish themed songs in Ukulele. Our topic this term is Significant Scots of the past and we have begun by learning about Robert the Bruce.

We have set goals for 2025 as we look to embrace the new experiences that will be coming our way this year.