August 28, 2026
by L Henderson
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Room 23 have hit the ground running with our novel study “Rooftoppers” since we have returned. As part of our modelling block, we have been looking at all of the different reading strategies.
In numeracy we have been revising data handling, reading and completing bar charts, pie charts and line graphs!
August 28, 2026
by Miss McBride
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We have had an exciting week in P1! The children have been working hard, learning new skills and having lots of fun along the way. Here’s a little look at what we have been getting up to in class.
In Literacy, we have continued exploring rhyming words. The children have been listening carefully to words and identifying which ones rhyme. We have enjoyed coming up with our own rhyming pairs and developing our listening skills through lots of fun activities. We have also been learning about syllables. The children have been practising clapping out the syllables in different words, helping them to hear the individual parts within a word.
In Maths, we have been focusing on the numbers 0 and 1. We have been learning about what these numbers mean, recognising their values and practising how to form them correctly.
Our topic this week has been all about minibeasts!
We have been learning about different types of minibeasts, where they live and some fascinating facts about them. The children have been discovering that minibeasts can be found in lots of different habitats and have enjoyed talking about what they look like, where they might find them and how they live.
I have a lovely weekend!
Miss McBride and Room 3
August 28, 2026
by Mr Mackay
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Room 24 blog
On Monday we did PE and symmetry, we were doing shapes and spelling. We also read the class novel dragon fire.
On Tuesday we finished off tasks like NFMA, dragon art and more. We also did spelling.
On Wednesday we did bar charts and pie charts health and wellbeing and read dragon fire, and we finished our
class charter and some French.
On Thursday we did ICT, in ICT we created our own sites. we went to the library and we also did a textbook page. We did a story where we had 2 options for writing a story: we had dragons fire or the hobbit.
On Friday we had an assembly then we did spelling and we did PE. We finished off creating our Top Trump Data Cards and put the information into Pie Charts and Line Graphs.
Thanks for reading!
Room 24
August 28, 2026
by Mrs Ventre
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Good afternoon everyone,
The boys and girls have been enjoying learning lots of new things.
“I enjoyed Dictation” AMcI
“I enjoyed partitioning numbers” CMcC
“I liked doing the road safety poster” LW
“I liked learning to pass the ball in basketball” LJ
“I enjoyed building a tower as part of our child led play” FH
“I liked writing a poem about my favourite day” MMcG
We hope you all have a lovely weekend!
Thank you
Room 14 and Mrs Ventre
August 28, 2026
by Mr Allen
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There was a real buzz of excitement in the classroom this week as we got our hands on the school Chromebooks for the very first time. We were stepping away from touchscreens (like iPads and tablets) to use a physical keyboard and trackpad which was a brand-new challenge.
Getting logged onto a laptop requires a lot of patience, a bit of teamwork, and discovering just how tricky it is to find the spacebar.
The Great Login Challenge: We will be learning that passwords are secret, understanding how to type them carefully, and celebrate the magic moment the home screen finally loads.
Taming the Trackpad: We will be shifting from tapping a screen to dragging a cursor with one finger while clicking with another will be a massive leap for our fine motor skills.
Finding the Keys: We will practise hunting down the letters in our names, learning that the keyboard isn’t in alphabetical order (a very confusing discovery for a P2!).
Digital Teamwork: We will also be leaning over to help our “learning partners” to find the enter key and logging off.
By introducing Chromebooks now, we are learning how to use technology; we are building our independence and problem-solving skills. These early sessions will lay the groundwork so that by the time we reach the upper primary years, we can confidently use these tools for research, writing, and creative projects.
August 28, 2026
by Mrs Meechan
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Our August newsletter will be sent out in Parents Portal today and is also saved in the newsletter tab above.
August 28, 2026
by Miss Mulreany
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Hello,
Welcome to Room 2’s blog. We will post weekly updates here and tell you all about our learning journey throughout the year.
Thank you for coming along to our recent ‘Meet the Teacher’ event. It was great to see so many of you there. I hope that you found the sessions useful and if there is anything that you require throughout the year, please just get in touch.
Room 2 have been learning the routines of our classroom and school. Yesterday we went on a little walk around the school to meet some new teachers and to find important places in our school building. We even received our third ‘Proud Cloud’ for showing our school value of ‘United’ whilst walking in a line. We were very PROUD!
We have started learning numbers ‘0’ and ‘1’ this week. We learned about Greedy Zero and Penguin One. We have been practising the formation of these numbers in active ways and in our new jotters. It is all very exciting!
We are looking forward to more adventures next week. Have a lovely weekend. 🙂
August 27, 2026
by Miss Livingstone
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It has been a very busy week in Room 5 this week. We began learning our Science topic – All about the Eclipse, and looked for the differences in what we see in the sky during the day and at night. We went outside and spoke about how important it is to look at the sun safely, and the children were surprised that they could see the moon even in the daylight! For spelling, we focused on ‘ng’ and ‘th’, and common words ‘have, your, only, by’. In number we focused on bigger than, smaller than and equal to for numbers up to 50, and 1 more 1 less, 2 more and 2 less than a big number. In P.E we played some circle time games, and our favourite was bear in the honey pot. Outdoor P.E today was so much fun and we played football with Miss Campbell. Our Non Number focus this week is days of the week and months of the year, and the children created some wonderful display work for the board. During spelling, we have been working really hard at using the elkonin boxes, which help us to identify each sound within a word, and we have focused on knowing what a single sound is and what a joint sound is.
It has been another great week, and I hope you all have a great weekend when it comes! Check out our great pictures below!
Pupil Voice:
Alice: We learned about space, and some of the planets.
Callum: We learned about high planes fly, how high bees fly and how far away they are from us.
David: We learned about joint phonemes, which are two letter that make 1 sound.
Ayesha: We learned about common words.
Lucas: We learned about different months and days of the week.
Peyton: We went outside to look at the sky to see if we could see stars and moon outside during the day.
David: We played football with Miss Campbell.
Erland: I enjoyed learning about space.
Aulay: We learned about our feelings, and our rights as a child.
Matthew: I have enjoyed reading books in the library.
Katie: I enjoyed colouring in outside during play and it was nice and cool and calming.
Leo: I have enjoyed doing the rainbow tasks.
Reminders
Indoor P.E is Wednesday and Outdoor P.E is a Thursday, children can come to school in their P.E kits.
Thanks
Miss Livingstone and Room 5
August 24, 2026
by Miss White
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Welcome to our Room 11 blog! We are going to tell you about some of the fun things we have been learning about every week. Every week, a different group will share their favourite learning.
This week we started our new class book The Alien Stole My Dog. We think it is going to be really funny! We did some drama too. We made our own CD-ROM prop and did freeze frames pretending to be David, the main character.
We have also been working really hard on our maths. The Primary 3s have been adding and subtracting numbers up to 20 and the Primary 4s have been adding and subtracting numbers up to 100. We are excited to see what we learn next!
Come back next week to find out more about what we have been doing!
By Room 11
August 21, 2026
by Miss McBride
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The children have settled in so well and have been busy exploring, learning and making new friends.
This week, we have been learning all about rhyming words. We enjoyed listening carefully to words and spotting which ones sounded the same at the end. We also had fun thinking of our own rhyming words!
We have been learning more about our names too. The children discovered how many syllables are in their names by clapping them out. This was a great way to develop our listening skills while learning something new about ourselves.
Today, the children were developing their fine motor skills, helping to build the strength and control they will need for writing, cutting and other classroom activities.
We also enjoyed reading The Colour Monster Goes to School. The story gave us a lovely opportunity to talk about starting school, our feelings and all the different emotions we might experience. The children then became very creative and designed their own Colour Monsters, choosing colours and ideas to represent their feelings and personalities.
It has been a busy and exciting week, filled with lots of learning, laughter and creativity. We can’t wait to see what next week brings!
I hope you have a lovely weekend.
Miss McBride and Room 3
