P6b Scots Week

P6b have been learning all about Scotland during Scots Week and through our current topic “Scotland”. We read together the wonderful book ‘Neeps and Tatties’ by Carey Morning and Anna York. This book gave us the chance to discuss friendship and diversity. We also had the opportunity to try and translate some Scots words to help us deepen our understanding of the book. After, we created our own Neep or Tattie character, describing their personality and appearance.

The children also got to create a timeline of Scottish events. We discussed these events and the impact they had on Scottish history.

Finally we explored tartan! The children carried out their own research on tartan to create a factfile. We spoke about clans and family tartans, some children discovered their own families tartan! We then created our own tartan using chalk pastels and some black card (which was a bit messy but lots of fun!).

 

Scots Language Week – P3a

Last week we celebrated Scots Language week, the children took part in a wide range of learning experiences which celebrated the Scottish language.

As a class we read ‘Neeps and Tatties’ a wonderful book written by Carey Morning and Anna York. The children discussed all of the different Scots words from the text we translated these and discussed their meanings. The class then created their own tartans to display our new learned Scots vocabulary. What a bonnie display they have made.

As a class we discussed the meaning behind the text and used our after reading skills to summarise the story. The children then took on the role of illustrators and designed and created their own front cover for the book.

Finally we ended the week learning about traditional Waulking Songs. The children used their imagination to simulate waulking (working) the fabric as they sang the tradition Gaelic song ‘Hè Mo Leannan’.

Everyone Is Welcome – Our Equality Policy

We are delighted to share with families our refreshed and updated Equality Policy – Everyone is Welcome.

Everyone is Welcome – Equality Policy Wallacewell Primary

At Wallacewell are committed to empowering our young people to succeed. We will work with all our stakeholders to create a happy, healthy, caring and inclusive school where everyone feels valued and respected and supported to supported to overcome barriers and achieve their full potential. We acknowledge that our pupils have rights outlined within the United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

At Wallacewell Primary we recognise our obligations under the Equality Act 2010 and are committed to promoting the equality and diversity of all those we work with.

Wallacewell Primary School is committed to promoting a positive and diverse culture in which all staff, young people and our wider school community are valued and supported irrespective of their age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership and pregnancy and maternity.

Everyone is WELCOME at Wallacewell Primary. 

 

Scottish week in P4a

As part of Scottish week in P4a we were reading Neeps and Tatties by Carey Morning.
We worked together to translate Scots words from the book into English. We also built Scottish landmarks in the playroom, created our own versions of Scottish comics, played body percussion to keep the beat to some Scottish music and used Charles Rennie Mackintosh as some inspiration for art.

P5b Science Centre Trip

This week we visited the Science centre to start off our new space topic. We had an amazing time and really enjoyed the hand on exhibits. A definite highlight was a visit to the planetarium where we were given lots of interesting information, got to see what earth looks like from space and looked at the different star constellations.