This week we have started our novel study called Holes. We have done visualisation. We used evidence from the text to tell us what Camp Green Lake looked like and we drew it. In maths we were doing some activities outside to help us think about how long a minute actually is! “This week I learned how to add tens of thousands” Marshall “I enjoyed using Sum Dog for part
We are a box of crayons, each one of us unique! But when we get together the picture is complete! P7b thoroughly enjoyed discussing why we are all different and unique. They also thought about team work, supporting each other and striving for success together and understood that when we do this we can achieve so many things by combining our talents and skills.
Our class have been enjoying Esio Trot by Roald Dahl. We had a challenge to design and make a tortoise catcher like Mr Hoppy. Thanks to amazing team work and sharing, we came up with some brilliant designs that could really pick things up around our classroom! Now we just need to find some tortoises…. First he made two metal claws or fingers, and these he attached
In maths we have been learning to add thousands, hundreds, tens and units. We were revising nouns, verbs and adjectives in Literacy. We played the alphabet game to remind ourselves of these. Our new topic is Titanic and we have discussing things we would like to find out about it. “I enjoyed playing spelling basketball with my class” Gary “The Alphabet Game helped me to remember my nouns, verbs and adjectives” Eilidh
Just a reminder to all parents and carers. Please make sure that all pupils clothing and belongings are clearly labelled with their name and class. We have already had some items found without names. It is hard to trace their owners without a name label. Thank you for your continued support.
Well done to the representatives from our school who visited the City Chambers last week with Mrs Harris to collect our Lord Provost Road Safety Award.
We took our learning outdoors for some role play. ‘We had fun in the castle, it was very fun. We got the shields and crowns outside and pretended to fight each other!’ Kieran ”We drew a castle with all the right parts of the castle.’ Kyla
Primary 2 have been learning about The Vikings. We have been working very hard to make our Viking shields, longhouses and we even made our own Viking long ship! We have been learning about the Viking alphabet (runes) and we made our own Viking jewellery, more pictures to come!
The boys and girls in Primary 1a took part in an NHS ‘Name the Bear’ competition after reading a story called ‘Jenny and the Bear’. We all thought of really fantastic names for the bear including Candy, Jo Jo, Chocolate and Mr Teddy; but we voted for our favourite in the class and Mr Teddy was selected. We got some exciting news at the start of the week when we were
