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August 15, 2025
by Mrs Webber
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September 5, 2025
by Mrs Ventre
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Room 14
Good afternoon everyone,
Please see below what the boys and girls in Room 14 have enjoyed learning about this week:
“Rounding to the nearest 100” MN
“Comprehension blooms cards” LE
“Dictation” ED
“French greetings with Miss O’Brien” JMcG
“Learning skills through play” VA
“learning basketball and rugby skills in PE” AD
Have a lovely weekend
Mrs Ventre and Room 14
September 5, 2025
by Miss Livingstone
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Castle Fun in Room 5
Good Afternoon,
This week we have been learning the sounds ‘ai’ and ‘oy’. We have been working hard on our writing in our jotters, ensuring we use capital letters, full stops and finger spaces. This week we moved on to Addition in Maths and number bonds of 20 and 40.
We started our new topic of Knights and Castles, and we looked at Edinburgh Castle and the history of them. We also learned the name of different parts of a castle.
This inspired our play this week, and we worked hard with the loose parts and building blocks to recreate our own castle. Next week we will continue with two more sounds ‘oa’ and ‘qu’ and will be focusing on subtraction for maths.
Pupil Voice:
EW: I enjoyed building castles.
BC: I liked learning about the castles.
CJ: I liked colouring in and cutting out the knight.
BK: I loved learning the new sounds.
CJ: I enjoyed building my castle using the pegs and sticks.
OM: I enjoyed drawing the water to represent the ‘moat’ of the castle when building it.
Remember:
P.E on Monday is outdoor. It is important that the children have waterproof jackets with hoods every single day.
Have a lovely weekend.
September 5, 2025
by Miss White
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Room 17’s Best Week Ever!!!
In Room 17 we really want to tell you what we have been doing…
On Tuesday we cooked with a chef that used to work at an Italian restaurant. We cooked soup and worked on our listening skills .
ln Drama we were writing a diary entry about Kensuke’s Kingdom and how Michael felt when his Mum and Dad lost their job.
I hope you loved our blog. Come back next week for more crazy news!!!…
By Harry, Cara and Ariya
September 3, 2025
by Miss White
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Room 17’s Amazing Blog
We are here to tell you about Room 17’s best week ever!
In Room 17 we were making a fruit salad out of lots of different fruits. We were working on our knife skills practicing our cutting (don’t worry the knives were kid friendly).
This week we were learning about grouping in maths. We used this strategy for multiplying and dividing. We practiced this on a whiteboard and we are slowly becoming experts.
Come back next week for even cooler news.
By Room 17
September 1, 2025
by Miss Laird
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Room 4
What an exciting and busy week we had in Room 4!
We began the week by reading the story of Spinderella. The children loved retelling the tale in their own words, showing great understanding as they carefully sequenced the events. It was interesting to hear their predictions about what might happen next – some of their ideas were wonderfully imaginative!
We also explored the nursery rhyme Incy Wincy Spider. Using cut-out characters and props, the children enthusiastically retold the rhyme, bringing it to life with their own voices and movements. While doing this, we played a fun game where Miss Laird was silly and mixed up words that didn’t belong in the rhyme – we had to listen carefully and help her fix her mistakes!
This week the children enjoyed:
KA – I liked learning new things.
ZA – I liked drawing my spider.
ED – I liked playing with the cars.
LF – I liked learning the numbers zero and one.
KH – I liked listening to the story of Noah’s Arc.
HM – I liked playing with the playdough.
DM – I liked playing.
FM – I liked making a rainbow with buttons and pom poms.
SM – I liked learning the names of the shapes.
BR – I liked learning to say hello—bonjour, in French.
Thank you for reading our blog.
Miss Laird and Room 4
August 29, 2025
by L Henderson
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Room 23
Welcome to Room 23’s blog post!
We have been very busy since settling into life in P7. The children have been excellent buddies to our P1s, we started our new novel/IDL topic on ‘High Rise Mystery’ by Sharna Jackson and learning the numbers 70 – 100 in French amongst many other things.
We took part in a STEM challenge this afternoon. Each team received the same materials but one team came out on top!
August 29, 2025
by Miss Lockhart
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This Week in Room 15
Hello and welcome to our blog.
In Room 15 this week, we have …
“We were learning to set the scene in our imaginative writing.” JB
“We created keyhole art, I drew a door leading to space.” LM
“We were rounding big numbers.” LD
“We created our ‘perfect’ schools with what we would love to have and see in our school.” LD
“We answered comprehension questions.” SC
“We did our first P4 dictated sentence.” LM
“We practised how to react to a fire drill with Mrs Kerr.” QJO
“We practised the bounce pass and chest pass in our basketball lesson.” CR
Thank you for reading. See you next week. 🙂
August 29, 2025
by Miss Livingstone
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A learning filled week in Room 5 :)
Hello everyone!
Another full week of primary 2 has come to an end, and we have been learning lots of new and exciting things.
This week we looked at the sounds ‘ph, ee, oo, ck’ and our common words were ‘are, come, of, new’. We also learned about numbers being ‘greater than’ and ‘less than’ and the signs we would use to show this when comparing it to other numbers. We ensured we were all aware of the numbers to 100 and could count forwards and backwards. Today, we started our first piece of Writing and we are writing about something we consider ‘important news’ in our life, like going on holiday, going out for a nice meal or spending time with family. In P.E this week we started learning ball skills by throwing and catching and rolling. We spent some time playing, and during play we were tasked with building something that is similar to a car or a building (I think they done really well, they are very imaginative!). Miss O’Brien taught us the colours in French this week, and we also know how to answer the register in French.
Next week we will move on to addition in maths, and a few more revision days of previous sounds looking at ‘ai, oy, oa and qu’. We will also be starting our new topic ‘Knights and Castles’.
Pupil Voice:
AD: F and I built a big mansion and i really enjoyed it.
IM: I loved literacy, my favourite thing is to learn new sounds.
CJ: A and I built a football pitch with lego and it was fun.
AT: I liked learning about the joint phonemes and also numbers in maths.
REMINDERS:
P.E is Monday and Thursday.
Please ensure all children are bringing a waterproof jacket to school each day. This is needed for break and lunch, and outdoor learning opportunities.
Miss Livingstone
August 29, 2025
by Miss Napier
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Our Fortnight in Room 24
Last week we started to go outside with the new P1s (our buddies) at break and lunchtime. It was nice seeing them settling in and finding new friends.
After school on Thursday our parents came in to see what we were doing and to meet our teacher. They could see of the work on our walls already.
For numeracy we did logic puzzles which we’d say is better than normal math in the first week back, hands down!
Ollie & Lucas
This week, we have been lots including doing dodgeball, writing, and math.
Our buddies have settled in so well they don’t need us as much anymore 🙁 We know this is a good thing though 🙂
We have started dodgeball in PE that everybody enjoys. We were working in teams of 6 or 7 and did a tournament to find the best players and team.
We all went into trios and completed word problems in math that were scattered around the class. It was great seeing everybody working together in groups 🙂
In writing we were describing a picture with our five senses: hear, see, smell, touch and taste. We had rain and storm sounds on in the background too to help us with our setting descriptions. We’re going these descriptions to add to our writing next week.
By Jude and Rocco.
August 25, 2025
by Miss Campbell
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A warm welcome to Room 16
Hello everyone, just a note to say welcome to our class blog. Thank you to everyone who attended our meet the teacher event last week in Room 16.
The pupils have worked well over the last week and a half, learning routines and all about each other.
We look forward to sharing some of our work with you soon.
Note : PE will be on a Tuesday and Friday each week.
