I hope everyone has a happy and safe holiday with lots of sunny weather.

Thank you to all the boys and girls and their families for supporting us with their children’s learning this year.

Look at this picture from the start of the year!  Haven’t you all grown and changed!

Mrs MacPherson

We had great fun at the Science centre.  We loved the dressing up and all the hands on activities. The giant puppet, Stuffy helped us learn more about the organs in the body.

Yarren was back for his final stay with us before he goes off to the training school at Forfar.  He has had a busy two weeks with us.  He’s watched sports practises, relay races, listened to stories and our songs for the pirate show.

Today he’s even dressed up in a pirate costume to take part in the fun activities organised by P7.

The children are all very caring towards him and looked after his needs.

I was always cheeful when Yarren was here as he made me nice and happy  – Ben

I like when Yarren is sleeping – he cuddles his teddy – Emily

Yarren is always good – Joshua

I like when we see Yarren through the window when we come to school – Kaiden

I like when Yarren looks at me – he makes me smile – Junior

It’s Digital learning week and we have been learning about coding.  P2’s have been leaders of learning supporting the p1’s with their introduction to Beebots.  We have been programming the beebot and writing down the instructions.  When things go wrong we have to de-bug!

Here are some photos of us enjoying our learning!

There are different directions – Iona

The beebot was moving around – William

Sometimes the beebots can be cheeky as they don’t go the way you want them to! – Freya

A beebot can go straight and stop on the line – Natan

It was fun learning with the electronic beebots – Toby

They were interesting – they help us learn how many times they go! – Annabel

It was fun helping the P1’s – Jacob

If the instructions go wrong you have to de-bug – Martha

I enjoyed reading my book – “Catch Dinosaurs” – Natan

I liked when we went into the reading den – Esme

I liked when we had the hot chocolate and when we had our photo taken – Jacob

We watched a clip of an author talking about his books.  His name was Rob Biddulph and he also drew the pictures for his story.  Saul

We were learning how to read books in the reading den.  Archie

Lots of us have drawn pictures for Yarren.

Emily wrote him a lovely note on the whiteboard.  “I love Yarren he is the best dog ever”

I liked having Yarren because I was sad and crying and he put his paw on me and I patted him. That made me happy – Freya Bird

He’s always cute – Annabel

We’re helping him learn about being a Guide dog – Esme

I like it when I’m lonely and he comes to me and cheers me up – Jacob

When I missed my Mum one morning – he helped me – he sat on me and that made me laugh – Toby

I liked when Yarren went under  my computer desk when I was playing Sumdog – Freya Bilby

I like Yarren’s water with the bubbles – William

Mrs MacPherson brought Guide dog pup Yarren into school last week.  We noticed he had grown a lot since his last visit.

We made pictures for him to take home.

“He looked like a marshmallow! – Annabel

“He’s awesome” – he’s fluffy” – William

“He is very friendly and always very nice” – Jacob’s

“He’s very cute” – Freya Bilby

“He makes me feel happy when I’m lonely” – Toby

“When I miss my Mummy Yarren always helps and takes care of me” – Martha

“Yarren sometimes follows me – I like that” – Junior

“When I was in the hall having my lunch and Yarren went past me, he was smiling at me – that made me happy” – Archie

Our learning this week:-

“I like doing times tables because I like maths”- Saul

“When I do maths with O clocks it’s easy” – Jack

“I liked what I was doing with the clocks” – Kaiden

“I liked doing the clocks because now I know how to tell the time – James.

“We were doing exercises in the hall”- Freya

“I liked doing gym because we get to play games” – Emily

We had a fabulous time on Friday celebrating Scottish music, poetry and dance. Everyone took part in the Poetry competition and Archie was the proud winner of the Primary 1 children.  Joshua and Freya were highly commended and Jacob was the winner of the P2 group.  Mrs MacPherson was very proud of us dancing the Balmullo Jig for the rest of the school and the parents in the afternoon.  We enjoyed watching the other classes too.

Happy New Year from everyone in P1/2.

We have had a very busy two weeks back with preparations for Burns Day Celebrations.  We are learning a Scottish Country Dance and a poem.

P2’s have been busy with number challenges in the morning, trying to improve speed with number bonds and a bit of problem solving too.

P2 are also learning about times tables and they are very excited about that.

P1’s are working on number knowledge within 20 including recognising numerals and they know about numbers bigger than 20 too!

This term our topic is transport focusing on local and Scottish elements.

We are all continuing to enjoy Letterland and it helps us with spelling and reading.

Have a nice weekend everyone!

We had great fun making things to sell at the Christmas market. We made Reindeer out of candy canes and enjoyed counting out tablet squares to put in Christmas bags.  We raffled a Christmas cake too and helped take the money.  We called our shop “The Christmas Candy Shop” and P2’s made posters using Word Art which we displayed beside our stall.  We raised around £120.

I wanted to give one of the reindeer to one of my friends – Valentina

I liked making the reindeer – Esme

I liked the Christmas Fayre – Iona

We were taking photographs – James

I liked seeing Santa – William

My mum was an elf – I got money and went around the shops and got hot chocolate. – Connor