Over the past few weeks, Primary 4a have been enjoying working on our football skills with Ben, a Soccer 4s coach. We have been practising dribbling and passing and have even managed to play some games. Primary 4a have been so good at working as part of a team during these sessions. We are already excited to see what we will be doing next Wednesday!
Last week in p4a, we took our learning outdoors! We have been learning all about Ancient Egypt, so did a Pharos hunt in the playground. There were 8 Pharos hid around the playground. Working in pairs we had to find each of the Pharos and write down facts about them. We had lots of fun!
In P5 we have had a busy week. In maths we have been working on data handling looking at different ways to read and display data. We also had our first week with the football coaches who will be with us for a few weeks.
In the creative enquiry some groups performed and filmed their space scripts using the green screen allowing them to add backdrops to make it more realistic.
As well as filming as part of our space topic they are working in groups to make a space poster on one of the planets in our solar system. 
We finished the week with orienteering which was lots of fun. They all did fantastic so next week we will hopefully challenge further by making the course bigger and more checkpoints.
The P5 JRSO have been very busy this term making a road safety film. Ollie and Rosie-Joy have written the script, chosen the “actors” and organised all the photographs they need to make this short film. Wish them luck as they travel to the City Chambers on Tuesday 12th of March to finalise their work.
Our film directors busy making a film about road safety.
This has certainly been a very interesting week. On Tuesday primary 5 received their first coaching experience from the Rangers Team. Everyone enjoyed and learned from the experience. World Book Day on Thursday was a fantastic opportunity to share our thoughts and experiences around reading books 📚.
Although it was a cold day P5 took part in an orienteering lesson outside to learn around coordinates. I think it was a great success and weather permitting we will continue with this next Friday
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Thursday was World Book Day. The children celebrated by dressing up as their favourite book character or coming into school in their pyjamas. At assembly we heard some fabulous readers from all stages in our school, and of course D did P3a proud by reading a passage from his favourite Harry Potter book.
In class the celebrations continued and we turned our classroom into a ‘Reading Restaurant’. The children had the opportunity to discuss their favourite books and use HOT’s question dice to support their discussions. They then used drama to retell some of their favourite stories. The children loved writing sandwich book reports, and they had fun creating new characters at our ‘build a body buffet’. We all really enjoyed ourselves and loved having time to read some of our favourite stories.
Primary 2 have been learning a variety of sports skills.
In the first week they were developing their football skills and in the second week they have been learning basketball skills.
Not only have they learned important skills for these sports but they have worked as a team to support and encourage each other while having great fun!
This week P2/1 have been learning all about halves. We had a go at halving shapes and numbers. To split a number in half we had to make sure both of our robots got the same number of cubes for a snack. 
Last week in Primary 4a we used a new app called ‘Explain Everything’ to display our research on Egyptian Pyramids. We worked with a partner to research pyramids and gather information then used our creativity skills to present our information in an engaging way
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On Friday P7s used the creative enquiry room to demonstrate their learning on photosynthesis. They create models of a flower using crafts that showed the different parts of a flower. They also created a diagram showing and explaining the photosynthesis cycle. Finally the pupils set up an experiment that aims to show the effects of sunlight on plant growth and will monitor the results over the coming weeks. Hopefully by the end we will have a nice crop of coriander!
