What a busy week we have had in P6a, our fantastic Showcase on Wednesday was the highlight of the week.  Great singing, clear speaking of our parts, representing our own languages and confident showing of our talents, our hobbies and national clothing.  We hope our families enjoyed it too!

We have looked at the seashells we placed in lemon juice a few weeks ago and were amazed by the changes.  The lemon juice acidity made the shells soft, chalky and very fragile.  It demonstrated to us how the oceans and wildlife are affected by the pollution that is in the worlds oceans.

We’ve had an enjoyable week and were lucky enough to spend some time outdoors, making the most of the sunny weather. In maths, we focused on comparing fractions, while in writing we completed our report writing unit by creating reports about Stone Keep castles. We also continued developing our athletic skills in the sunshine and took part in a community litter pick. To finish the week, we visited the bug hotels and had fun searching for insects.

Primary 2a made good use of the brilliant weather this week.

We done our bit for the environment by working as a team to litter pick the full playground. The class had a lot of fun and worked brilliantly together.

We also took our paired reading with the primary 6’s outside again. The class were impressing their buddies with their amazing reading skills.

This week we have been writing explanations about looking after our environment. We then put some more of it into practice as we  went litter picking. In maths we have been working on using our 4 operations skills to solve word problems, and then began exploring simple algebraic equations. We have been looking at identifying problems in HWB and explored simple conflict resolution. We were pleased to see the growth of our seeds that we have been looking after and think they will be ready to repot outside next week.

This week P6a have been busy learning about Area.  We have measured, calculated and drawn area shapes.  One of the most enjoyable activities were our self portraits done in a Minecraft style.  Not only did we use Area we also had a little symmetry involved.  The final pictures allowed us to calculate the area of each part.  They look amazing!🤩👏🏻

We have also explored the issue of pollution and climate change on our Oceans.  First we watched an animated film by Aardman Films called  ‘Turtle Journey’, which, although incredibly sad also made us realise the problems creatures face. The pupils retold the story through a comic.   We then created an experiment using shells and lemon juice, to show the erosion of coral and shells due to the polluted waters and the increase in acid.  This is called acidification.  Next week we will see what has happened.

Despite the heat and sun shining, Primary 1 have had another successful week of learning.

Following on from making a jeely piece last week, they have been writing instructions explaining the steps that they took to make their sandwich.

In numeracy, they have been learning to half a number which some of us have been finding a bit tricky but we are practicing and getting better.

It has been exciting reading the responses which we received from our homework task asking questions about life in the past. We had fun and laughs watching some of the television programmes and listening to the music (especially when Mrs Scott and the support of learning workers were singing along). A big thank you to everyone who shared their experiences of growing up in the old day!