A big welcome to all our new P1 pupils, we hope you are looking forward to learning lots of new things with Mrs Ker and Mrs Hamilton.

A big welcome to all our new P1 pupils, we hope you are looking forward to learning lots of new things.

Welcome back, we hope you are all ready to learn lots of new things with Mrs Hunter.

The P4-7 Food Scientists had a great time at TOPS today – making gloop!  They used cornflour and water and were surprised at how it’s properties changed.

Great fun was had tonight at the Summer Discos.  Everyone enjoyed themselves, dancing along to the tunes expertly played by Mrs McIntosh of the PTA.

Continuing with the theme of ‘Biodiversity’ it was time to discover the animals that make their homes in Sanquhar Woods.  We worked in groups to look for clues such as homes, tracks and poo to find out what lives here.  There was plenty of evidence of mice, deer, foxes, ants, birds, rabbits, squirrels and many minibeasts. We even found a toad in a hole!

We then spent some time in our ‘special places’ to create spaces that would encourage animals to make their homes.

At the end of last term, the P7 French class got to sample some French food.  This came after a lot of hard work spent learning vocabulary for food and writing their own scripts for ordering food at a restaurant.

On offer was Ratatouille, Baguette, Croissant, Brie, Port Salut, Roule, Ardennes Pâté and Crêpes au chocolat.  Some items were unfamilair to some but everyone sampled everything and it was quickly devoured.  The general concensus was that french food is….. délicieux!

P6/7M’s last session of PE at Forres Academy was hands down the most fun – we had a go at Boxing and Sparring.  Everyone got the chance to wear the gloves and ‘jab and cross’ at our partner who was wearing the pads.  The best part was having a go at sparring against the dummy knicknamed by many as ‘Bob’.  Even Mrs McRitchie and Mrs Galbraith got the gloves on and had a go!

P6/7M are busy being scientists this term and learning all about chemical reactions and how to separate substances.  Today they learnt how to separate substances through sieving, evaportation and filtration.  By doing this they have learnt about the importance of a fair test, how to read measuring cylinders and use funnels and pipettes.

This term the P6’s from P6/7M have been receiving some Kwik Cricket coaching from Neil Nicol ahead of the Moray Primary Schools competition.  They have learnt the skills of bowling and batting and will be moving on to learn the rules of the game.