P3FS have entered Hobbycraft’s Easter Bonnet Competition on behalf of Lochardil. They’ve done a fantastic job.

It’s YOUR turn to take part now. Get down to Hobbycraft and vote Lochardil as your winner. Voting takes place over the next two weeks!

We learnt how to make spring pictures. We used straws to blow paint to make branches for our trees. Then we scrunched up colourful pieces of paper for flowers or leaves. – Lucy W and Sadie

We have been learning to do the four times table in our maths. – Joshua

We have been learning how to measure things. We have been using measuring sticks, scales, balances and rulers. – Lilly V

We have been learning about Urquhart Castle. We went on a school trip to Urquhart Castle and learnt a lot about it – Drew

We have been learning about castles and different types of castles. – Lily. F

We have been learning about centimetres, kilograms and litres. We have been measuring the length, the weight and the volume of different objects. – Marc

On the weekdays, we have been doing our class talks. Everybody talked about different things, nobody talked about the same thing. They were fantastic! – Zoe

We were writing fairy tales. We were reading them to the P1s. We learnt about settings, heroes, endings, contents, solving problems, villains and blurbs. – Grace

We have been learning about people in the castle. We learnt about what kind of jobs people had who lived in a castle. – Finlay

We made castle pictures using smudge pencils. We used paper and rulers to make them look real. – Eve

We made a story map about the Little Red Hen. We also made actions to help us to remember the story of the Little Red Hen. It helped us to write a story of our own. – Abigail

We made a family crest. We designed tartan. They are on our wall now. – Calum. M

We made superheros and fish in our groups. We had different coloured bands (red, green, blue and yellow). We had to have someone from each colour in our group. We worked on the project together. We had to take turns and we had to listen to other people ideas. – Isabelle

Last week, we were delighted to listen to some more class talks. It is clear that everyone has worked very hard on their talk at home.  There are some more photos below. Lots of pupils brought in models and photos. Everyone spoke about their chosen subject in a lot of detail and confidently presented to the rest of the class. Well done everyone!

Today P1C, P1M and P3FS spent the day at Urquhart Castle – learning about weapons and armour that the knights used to use, visiting the castle ruins and searching for our friend Nessie. We even fed Nessie some of her favourite shortbread, but she must have been too shy today.

We’d like to thank Di and her team at Urquhart Castle for assisting us with our trip. We’d also like to thank all of our helpers who volunteered. The weather was gorgeous. The weather dance Mr Cook did this morning definitely paid off . . .

Mr.Cook, Mrs McArthur and Miss Shimmield

We had some more amazing class talks today from Calum, Zoe, Ellie, Abigail and James. We were very impressed with their posters and models. We could tell that a lot of hard work had gone into their presentations and we were delighted to listen to them!

Remember it is World Book Day tomorrow too! It will be a fun day and the pupils will be taking part in lots of different activities that celebrate books. The Pupil Council has asked the pupils (and staff!) to dress up as fairy tale characters. We can’t wait to see all the costumes!

Today, we went to visit P1M and P1C to share our fairy tales. We each read our own fairy tale that we had written to a P1 partner. We have put a lot of effort into our stories (several hardworking writing sessions!) so we were excited to read them to the younger pupils. We think they enjoyed them! Some of P1M read their stories to P3FS. It was a lovely afternoon. We hope to take our stories home soon so that we can share them with our families also.

We also listened to some more class talks today from Grace, Olivia and Fraser. They each did their talk on something different about castles. They brought in photos and pictures to show us. Including some interesting facts that even Miss Shimmield hadn’t heard of before!

We look forward to sharing more class talks tomorrow!

We hope you had a lovely half-term break. Everyone in P3FS came back ready for the second half of Term 3!
We will be continuing our topic on Scottish Castles. Some lucky pupils visited castles during their half term break which is great! We enjoyed hearing about what they had seen and learnt.

Next week, we are going on our class trip to Urquhart Castle. The trip is on Monday 10th March. We will be at the castle for the whole day so remember to bring a snack and packed-lunch.

This week we have started to share our class talks. We are looking  forward to seeing everyone present them!  It can be on any aspect of our Scottish Castles topic. Please speak to Miss Shimmield or Mrs Fraser if you need some help! Marc, Eve, Sadie, Callum and Iain presented today. Their talks were very interesting and they brought in photos, artwork and models to show us!

We are excited for more class talks tomorrow and for the rest of the week!