This week in p7b

We had a great week with spelling with the best spelling test results so far.

We are doing very well at organising our own reading circles and will keep working on this in the weeks to come.

We have been talking about making responsible choices in PATHS and we can see this reflected in our decisions in class.

Rights Respecting Schools Fundraiser

On Wednesday 20th November 2024 our Rights Respecting Schools Pupil Committee have organised a Dress Down Day as part of their global fundraising project. Suggested donation £1. Help our Rights Respecting Schools Pupil Committee to twin our toilets and fund a project in a community that helps families to build their own basic toilet, access clean water and learn about hygiene – a vital combination that saves lives.

Annual Family Quiz Night – Thursday 28th November 2024

After the success of our Quiz Night last year, our Quiz Night is back. Booking info will be issued to families tomorrow.

Join us for our annual Family Quiz Night

Thursday 28th November 2024 (6- 7.30pm)

What you need to know –

  • Doors open at 5.45pm. Entry through the main entrance.
  • Quiz will start at 6.10pm sharp.
  • Drinks, crisps and sweets will be available to purchase on the night (Cash only). Please note, no alcohol is permitted at this event
  • £5 per table/team. Up to 6 individuals permitted per table/team. Children under 5 go free.
  • Ticket holders will not be given a ticket. Instead names will be added to guest list.
  • Money raised will go to our School Fund.
  • We have some fabulous prizes up for grabs for the winning team.
  • To book please complete the tear off slip that will be sent out to families on Monday 18th November and return to the school office with payment by Friday 22nd of November 2024. Please note, due to the capacity of our hall, tables are limited. To guarantee your table please book in advance. We will notify families if they have been successfully booked in.

P5a our week

Last week we were working on some new things like our topic on the solar system as well as reciprocal reading. In science p5 we’re doing some experiments to see if we could create enough carbon dioxide bubbles to build enough pressure in our bottles to erupt- a small scale space rocket! Some of our experiments worked better than others so we will need to try again with some adjustments.  p5 have also been working incredibly hard on their multiplication in maths.

P2B superheroes

This week P2B have been exploring energy and character description through our interdisciplinary learning theme of super heroes. The pupils designed their own hero and wrote a description of their character. They also experimented with moving paper with static electricity and later in class discovered how we generate electricity from green energy sources. Next week we will be making simple circuits to create light

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Primary 2a

It’s been a very busy first few weeks of term 2 for primary 2a. We began in full Harvest Festival mode, with show rehearsals, dancing, singing and learning our lines. Along with primary 2b they delivered an amazing showcase, we were all very proud of how the children done showing bravery and enthusiasm to perform. Thank you again to everyone who came along to support on the day.

The following week was Halloween week where there was loads of excitement for the disco and trick or treating for those who celebrate. We begun the week with an amazing workshop with Donald from Wildside Nature who taught us all about Halloween themed animals.
 
Last week the excitement continued with Bonfire night. The class made some incredible firework scratch art to celebrate it.

Along with these exciting occasions primary 2a have done the Room on the Broom and Superhero topics in the playroom and the classroom and done amazing while learning division.

P3a Update

Last week for Halloween we had began making 3D haunted houses.  They were tricky to make and so took us a little longer than we thought so began this week finishing them.


In maths we continued on with measuring this time using a metre stick and we were also trying to estimate lengths.

We began our block of tennis this week in PE and starting by getting use to holding and controlling a raquet.

Lastly we began our new topic which is the Body Systems.  We made our own skeleton which we will label next week.

 

 

P1b Numeracy

This week primary 1b have worked incredibly hard in numeracy. We enjoyed exploring addition using concrete materials and practised writing sums using the mathematical symbols + and =.