It was lovely to be joined in class by our families and friends on Monday afternoon. The children enjoyed singing to start the afternoon off. They then enjoyed working together on a range of activities to share their learning from the term. The frobscottle seemed to go down well!

Thanks for the feedback on the afternoon.  Everyone enjoyed the opportunity to share their child’s learning and spend quality time with him/her, even if we had to fit a lot of people into the class.

We have been reading about the BFG and Sophie visiting the Queen at Buckingham Palace.

Today we were set a challenge. In our groups we had to build a palace fit for the Queen. It had to have:

• at least 20 windows
• at least 3 arches
• a flag flying from the roof
• an impressive front door

We had to decide in our groups who would have the following jobs:

• time keeper
• materials manager
• facilitator
• quality checker

We then had one hour to build our palaces using:

• paper
• cardboard boxes
• glue

The photos show the production process.

P3 and P3/4  have been learning to knit, thanks to the knitting nannas who have come into school to work with us.  Thanks also go to friends, Mums and grannies who have also come in to help us. 

The children worked hard to prepare a short presentation on their favourite book. Some children produced a leaflet, others a poster or fact sheet. The presentations were peer assessed, with children offering some good advice on how to make their work even better next time.

Here are some photos.

We enjoyed a visit from Carol from the SSPCA.  She told us about the very important work they do.  They are involved in saving thousands of wild, farm and domestic animals each year. We were shown some of the equipment they use to help them save animals when they get into dangerous situations.

Have a look at our photos to see what we got up to.