Please see the planner below for all dates already planned for the new session. It includes Parents’ Nights, Stage Learning Showcases, Meet the Teacher and many other school events.
June 25, 2024
by Mrs Meechan
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November 22, 2024
by Ms McIver
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Room 23 – 22.11.24
Hello,
Thank you so much to the family members that made it in to see the work we do in last week’s showcase.
I am sorry I don’t have more pictures from the last two weeks but we have been non stop in Room 23!
Maths and Numeracy: We have been working on finding strategies that work for us when calculating long multiplication. We have also begun our block of money and have been learning about currency, interest rates and calculating change.
Literacy: We have started our new wordless book ‘The Arrival’ which we have been loving. We learnt about Ellis Island in New York which Shaun Tan took inspiration from in his illustrations.
HWB: We have added an ‘Acts of Kindness’ display to our classroom. This is to encourage the pupils to spot acts of kindness from their classmates and note it down next to their picture. I am sure they will be filled in in no time!
Book Week: We have had a busy week celebrating Book Week Scotland. We have had reading quizzes, mystery teachers and a reading session with our parents. We are going to continue celebrating all year as our love of books doesn’t just last one week. Thank you so much to the family members who came to read with us today and thank you for the book recommendations for me! I will add them to my list.
Have a wonderful weekend! 🙂
November 22, 2024
by Miss Mulreany
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Book Week in Room 2!
This week, we have been celebrating all things reading and books during Book Week Scotland.
On Monday, lots of our parents and families came in to visit us and see us receive our Primary 1 Bookbug bags. They completed some reading and activities with us. Thank you for taking time out of your day to spend it with us. On Tuesday, we had a visit from the reading ambassadors. The girls read us ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ and then demonstrated a draw along for us to draw our own caterpillars. We added fun details to our caterpillars such as hats and clothes. Today we had a ‘Mystery Reader’ come to see us. It was Miss McIver. She read us not just one but three books! One was very funny and has been left for Miss Mulreany to read to us another day. It has been a great week.
November 22, 2024
by Miss Riley
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Room 5
Wow! What a fantastic (and busy!) week Room 5 have had celebrating Book Week!
We began our week by taking part in an ‘Author’s Live’ lesson with the one and only, Axel Shefler!
He taught us how to draw his most famous book character, The Gruffalo! Take a look at some of our super illustrators in action …
The book bag gifting took place on Tuesday and we welcomed some very special visitors into our classrooms! We would like to thank all of the Room 5 families and friends who took the time to participate in this event – it was a great turn out and very much enjoyed by the children!
To top off a brilliant week, we also received a special visit from our school ‘Reading Ambassadors’!
November 22, 2024
by Miss Curley
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Room 8’s Adventurous Week
We have had a very busy week in Room 8!
In our maths this week we have been working on addition. We have been using active and written strategies to add a teens number to a 2 digit number.
We have also started practicing our songs for our Christmas Concert!
On Wednesday, some of our adults came to join us for our Book Week Event! We really enjoyed this because we got to read and play with our grown ups and show them the work we have been doing.
We enjoyed lots of other book week activities too! We designed the front cover of a book when we were only given the blurb. We also had an Author’s Live Session with Axel Scheffler (who illustrated The Gruffalo, Superworm, The Snail and the Whale, Jonty Gentoo and the Smeds and the Smoos). He spoke about his life and also taught us how to draw the Gruffalo and Jonty Gentoo. Ms Henderson was our mystery reader today. She told us the story of ‘To Wee or not to Wee.” We really enjoyed it.
We joined in with Room 7 and Mrs Norton for our final yoga session. Our favourite poses were mountain, tree, warrior, pigeon and child’s pose.
We have been working on our new sustainability topic- the Butterfly Effect. We were learning to identify where our food comes from and explain how our choices can impact the planet.
In French, we are now looking at the French Cafe and we started to design our own menus which we will fill with the new food and drink vocabulary we learn.
- Written by the children from Room 8 (with help from Miss Curley).
You have all worked very hard this week Room 8. Well done! It was lovely to see you working with your adults on Wednesday (or working hard with me and Ms Lamont). Have a lovely weekend! – Miss Curley
November 22, 2024
by Mrs Rae
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Book Week 📚
Room 3 have had a fantastic week celebrating all things books. On Monday afternoon, we enjoyed welcoming family members in to share our surprise book bags with them. We had fun exploring the activities found in our bags and reading some lovely stories together. Thank you to all the adults that attended, it was a great afternoon.
Today we were very lucky to have a mystery reader visit our class. Mrs Norton came along and read some books with us before helping us to complete an arty task. The books were so good and we enjoyed our time with her. In the afternoon we had even more visitors. P5 and Miss Tighe came down to do some paired reading with us. We enjoyed listening to the stories our buddies had brought and discussing what happened in these books.
Pupil Voice
Here are some comments from this week’s learning:
IM – I liked reading books with my friends.
ST, BR – I loved reading with my book buddy.
KH – I liked when the parents came in.
GM – I liked when we got our surprise bags.
CG – I liked using picture clues when reading.
KR – I liked the activities with the parents.
CB – I liked the mystery reader coming in.
LB – I liked sharing books with others.
Have an enjoyable weekend!
Room 3 and Mrs Rae 😊
November 22, 2024
by Miss Napier
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Room 24 – Road Safety Week & Book Week Scotland
It is Road Safety Week and Book Week Scotland this week.
For our Road Safety learning, we have been using Adobe Express to create webpages with road safety facts. We learned how to add pictures and text to make our webpages interesting. Click on the links below to see what some of us were able to create during our first time making webpages.
https://new.express.adobe.com/webpage/vCqhOVYMLzDTP
https://new.express.adobe.com/webpage/kdOCHAMBKI9Dw
https://new.express.adobe.com/webpage/Alec2Xs01mJLU
For Book Week Scotland, we were able to bring in our cosy items and create dens to read in. Can you spot any of us in this picture??
Huge thank you to all our parents and family that came along to our reading event on Friday too! 🤩
(Isla & Usman)
November 22, 2024
by Miss Macfarlane
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Room 27
We have had a great time celebrating Book Week Scotland in Room 27 with all things reading!
We loved having adults in on Thursday morning to read with us and enjoyed a visit from a very special guest on Friday for ‘Mystery Reader’. It was so exciting to think about who our reader might be – nobody guessed it would be Miss Campbell!
On Friday afternoon we welcomed Room 26 to our class to take part in a ‘Book Swap Cafe’. We loved sharing our favourite books and may even have found some new favourites of our own – thank you Room 26 for the recommendations!
Here are some photos from our family reading session on Thursday:
Here are some of our highlights from this week:
LW “I liked it when our families got to come in and read with us.”
KE “I enjoyed when we did ‘Mystery Reader’.”
MN “I liked writing about our favourite book for the ‘Book Swap'”
AR “I loved doing our last information report about rainforest animals.”
KH “I liked adding 3 digit numbers to 4 digit numbers.”
OB “I enjoyed ICT this week where we used the maps to locate the rainforests.”
SM “I liked when we read ‘The BFG’ with Miss Campbell and drew pictures.”
JD “I liked using the Chromebooks to write my information report.”
Thank you for reading our blog. We hope you have a nice weekend.
Room 27, Miss Higgins and Miss Macfarlane
November 22, 2024
by Mrs Ventre
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Room 1
Good afternoon everyone,
This week we have been celebrating ‘Book Week Scotland’ throughout our school.
The boys and girls have really enjoyed taking part in lots of reading activities. Please see below:
On Monday we had the opportunity to look through our new Book Bug bags and some of our adults joined us.
We started reading books in class and talked about using our pointing finger to follow the words. We used the picture clue in our books to read any unfamiliar words. The boys and girls have all really enjoyed getting their own reading books and area feeling very grown up that they are able to read.
The reading ambassadors came to visit our class and read the book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. They then got everyone to draw a caterpillar and put some funny clothes on them.
At assembly we carried out a reading book quiz, which was lots of fun.
Room 1 had a visit from a mystery reading, which they were all very excited about. Our mystery reader was Mrs Kelly from Primary 3 that read the boys and girls her favourite story Zog.
Have a lovely week.
Thank you
Mrs Ventre and Room 1
November 22, 2024
by Mrs Kelly
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Room 11’s Blog
Welcome to Room 11’s Blog,
L, ‘We went outside and collected materials and used water bottles to make Bug Hotels because people are making too many buildings, so insects have no where to lives.’
A, ‘We learned a new sound ‘ve’, like live.’
M, ‘We have been learning how to add within 100.’
LM, ‘ We had a Mystery Reader for Book Week.’
O, ‘We learned how to draw the Gruffalo with Axel Scheffler.’
QJ, ‘We did a Deep Dive number challenge.’
Y, ‘At Book Week visitors came.’
S, ‘We have started learning about basketball in P.E..’
Thank you for reading our blog.
November 22, 2024
by D Gray
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Our Learning Showcase and Book Week Scotland!
We have had an incredibly busy week packed full to the brim with activities. Firstly Aqsa Ahmed was our Star Reader this week and she got to choose a book from the Book Vending Machine. Congratulations Aqsa!
Holly and Ruby our Reading Ambassadors have been run off their feet with Book Week Activities. ,They have read to children, organised the Book Bug Activities and spoken at assemblies and for all their hard work, both of them also got a trip to the book vending machine as a Thank-you! Congratulations.
On Thursday we hosted our family and friends for our Victorian Learning Showcase. We really enjoyed showing our visitors all our hard work and they said they enjoyed how interactive it was as they got to make bookmarks, try Victorian writing and making paper toys such as a Thaumatrope. Thank-you so much for attending and for reading with us.
