The whole school took part in a day of fundraising for comic relief where they participated in a danceathon. The children in primary 5 also completed other comic relief activities during the day and learned a lot about the charity. The children all had a chance to play a board game that described the difficulties of a child in Africa attending school. All of the children designed a new red nose for comic relief and came up with some great ideas, giving them names and superpowers. They also had a chance to create a red nose day monster using their knowledge from their shape topic. Throughout the day the children in primary 5 did a lot of dancing. Every time they heard a song they had a dance and in the afternoon the open area was transformed in to a dance floor where many of the children displayed some great moves. The children also attended a zumba class during the day.

Primary 5 have now completed their 12 week block of swimming lessons. The children really enjoyed taking part in both the swimming and the badminton lessons. All of the children participated well and learned new skills both in and out of the pool. They will now use this information and the new skills learned to create a video in ICT. This will be used to inform the children going to the lessons next year what to expect and how to get ready for the lessons.

Primary 3 have been learning all about food groups and what we should eat to have a healthy, balanced diet. We know that fruits and vegetables are very important for keeping us fit and healthy!

We looked through a bag filled with vegetables and fruits and sorted them into two groups (vegetables and fruits). We were all unsure of what a parsnip was! We each picked a vegetable or fruit to draw using line and coloured pencil. We also wrote sentences to describe how it looked, smelt and felt to touch.

We really enjoyed printing using paint, vegetables and fruits! We created excellent pattern pictures with bright coloured paints. Have a look at some photographs of our fruit and vegetable afternoon- more to follow!