It’s been another busy week in p5a, the children have been working on addition in maths and demonstrating their knowledge of a wide range of strategies, it’s lovely to see their confidence grow! In literacy our focus has been on persuasive writing, where they have written super letters using lots of persuasive features. We managed to finish our Roman Mosaics and they look fantastic! However the highlight of our week was receiving our own iPads! We have spent some time familiarising ourselves with these and exploring the apps. We are excited to use them to support and enhance our learning this year!

P5a have been working extremely hard, they have been doing journeys in creative enquiry, rounding to the nearest 10 100 1000 and even decimals. Their work on their novel Charlotte’s web has been fantastic. In reading they’ve been focusing on summarising they’ve been absolutely brilliant💯what superstars 🌟!!

By Olivia Dalgleish , p5a

It has been a busy start to the term this year. We have been working hard in maths and literacy already, and supporting our learning playing games and working collaboratively to share our knowledge.
We begun our IDL topic exploring the Celts in the iron ages, we looked at how they lived and what they did. We had lots of fun making roundhouses and hillforts for the tribes. We also had a go at paper weaving, since weaving was very popular back then! We produced some fabulous examples. Next we will be comparing the Celtic life to the Romans and finding out what happened next!

Our final day at Pinkston was great fun, spent in the forest taking part in a survival game. We also enjoyed popcorn made on the campfire!
after completing the 3 day course we have achieved a few different certificates (yet to come!) for Glasgows urban adventure award and the national outdoor learning award.

As part of our Health and wellbeing lessons and  Rights Respecting Schools, we have been exploring DIGNITY, and what this means and how it is shown. The children created posters and acrostic poems to show their understanding and thoughts on Dignity.

We had another trip to the library, luckily this time it was dry for our walk! We got to choose books to take away and read and we also had the opportunity to explore non fiction books related to our Rainforest topic and participate in some rainforest activities.

We have been playing fun games in PE  to help our communication and cooperation, and using our imaginations for free play outside.

p6a had a great 2nd day at Pinkston! Team games in the forest , working on our cooperation and resilience , as well as communication and listening skills, and LOTS of problem solving! On the water we were kayaking, while playing ball games and races! It was wet but fun!

We had a fantastic first day at Pinkston Basin taking part in a pilot for Glasgows Urban Adventure Award, engaging in outdoor learning adventures and activities. We had so much fun learning to Kayak as well as building our confidence in the water. We also spent time in the forest for our NOLA (national outdoor learning award) taking part in various different activities and working together. We can’t wait for our next session on 6th June!

What a fantastic day we had on our trip to Blairdrummond!