This week we have discussed what our families and ourselves do in preparation for Christmas Day and learned about the religious significance of advent Our craft challenge was to make an advent wreath which was then filled with 5 candles and today in church we were able to look at the advent wreath and ask Mr. Lyall questions.
On Monday I had fantastic fun at our party and I hope you did too.
Today Primary 6 enjoyed using the newly converted A/V room. It is now a lovely open space where the pupils enjoyed having the space, peace and quiet to read and select books for home. Recently each member of the Koala Reading Group summarised the main events in a section of their group novel as a timeline (approximately 3 chapters). Today in trios we joined the parts together to make longer timelines and then had fun
Today’s challenge was to make a Pudsey or Blush slider pop-up. No template was given so pupils needed to draw their own bear. Some pupils instantly exclaimed, “I can’t draw!” However as you can see from the results, these pupils were wrong. Everyone left with a bear that has a sliding mouth to show different emotions. I hope you and your Pudsey or Blush are smiling tonight because our school
Today whilst many of the Primary 7 pupils were out of school we took on the responsibility of classroom monitors and helped look after classes during a wet lunchtime. Most of us loved it; though we weren’t always listened to! At one point five Primary Ones were squashed in the play tent together, they survived the crush and came out smiling.
So far we have had 3 weeks of training from Mr McLaughlin to help us teach games to the younger pupils in our school. We have been learning and practising some of the skills which will make us good leaders. It has been fun playing a variety of Tig Games and yesterday we used the Parachute. The competition was tough and there were lots of skinned knees by the end
Last Friday we had a lovely Golden Time some pupils chose to extend their drawing skills through online tutorials whilst others drew their favourite cartoon characters. Sophie has finally been successful at making super stretchy slime at home so shared her recipe with others and a group chose to invent new objects with the construction kit.
Last week Primary 6 were very busy solving maths problems in class and at home. Here you can see us sharing the shape puzzles that we drew for homework. Just like the one sent home it was difficult to agree on how many triangles were in each drawing. One of the problems enjoyed in school was ‘Planting Out.’ With this activity we had different challenges, the first was to investigate
No Monday morning blues this week! By 9:30 the whole school was moving and singing to 2 new rock songs and a melody of favourite tunes. Today’s challenge: How many marshmallows can you put into your mouth and still sing? The challenge was between Ash (one of the Rookie Rockstars) and Miss Clarkston. With cheeks like hamsters the winner of this competition was our very own P7 teacher. Well done
Primary 5 recently had an exciting day out at Dynamic Earth. Back in class we discussed 2 things that each child learned and 2 things they enjoyed. Rated number one was touching the huge lump of ice in the cold zone and a close second was the film in the videodome about space. Some pupils felt they had learned lots about climate change in the workshop and others have
