P3a have had a fabulous time being back at school after the February break. The children especially loved learning to play the recorder, we cannot wait to showcase this new learning to everybody in March.

In R.M.E the children have been learning about Islam and the importance of caring for all living things. We watched two traditional stories then discussed ways we can help care for animals. The children then used improvisation and tableaux to explore this important message.

Finally the children ended the week with an active maths lesson. Thank you to all the parents that were able to come along to observe and support this learning. The children rotated through different maths stations all focusing on the Four Operations, 2D and 3D shapes. They were able to use all of our learned strategies to help solve the different numeracy problems.

Primary 1a loved their experience at Zoolab last week, when some curious creatures came to visit Wallacewell! We enjoyed learning about their natural habitats and finding out lots of interesting facts about giant African snails, hissing cockroaches, corn snakes and tree frogs.

Primary 3a loved taking part in the ZooLab workshop last Thursday. We learnt all about different African animals. The children had the opportunity to meet and hold some exotic animals including a Giant African Snail, a Hissing cockroach, a Corn Snake and a Tree Frog. Everybody was fascinated with these wonderful creatures.

P5a were outside measuring angles in the playground. They were looking for acute and obtuse angles in the branches of the trees. They found many acute angles but only a couple of obtuse angles. This was an interesting way to explore mathematics on a Friday morning!

Primary 2 had the opportunity to meet, learn about and hold some exotic animals when Zoolab came to visit the class. They met a Giant African Snail, Hissing Cockroaches, a Corn Snake, a Tarantula and a Tree Frog. They were excited and fascinated by the creatures and hope that they will come again with other animals.

We have been learning about how Chinese New Year is celebrated. We learned about the race the animals had to help create the calendar. 2024 is the year of the dragon and we discovered that some of us were born in the year of the monkey, the rooster and the dog.