Science in P3 – Forces

Today we brought in some toys from home to explore the force we used when playing with them. We sorted them into push, pull or both toys then investigated how we could make them move quicker/slower/further away or in a different direction by changing the amount of force we applied to the toy. We finished off the afternoon by playing with play-doh and making examples of push and pull forces

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Book Week Scotland

Last week the children in Primary 1 celebrated Book Week Scotland.  They enjoyed reading three new books from their Bookbug book bags.  Primary 7 pupils joined us for some shared reading activities throughout the week and they did a great job.  Thank you Primary 7!  

Primary 5 Maths and Numeracy

Primary 5 have been busy making a subtraction game in their cooperative learning groups which they can now play in class. Some are board games and others are card games. This tested their skills in mental agility greatly to ensure their games are accurate. We have now moved on to learning how to be sensible with our money! Pairs were given a shopping list and they had to search online

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The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark – P3

Over the last few weeks we have been reading The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark as our class novel. Lots of our literacy work in class has linked to this novel. We’ve written character descriptions of Plop the barn owl and even written our own chapter of ‘Dark is…’ following on in the author’s style. In art, we’ve been creating an image of Plop sitting in a tree

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Christmas Holiday

The school closes at 2.30pm on Friday 22nd December 2017 and reopens at 8.55am on Monday 8th January 2018. There was an error with the date on the Christmas arrangement letter given out on Monday 4th December (A copy of the updated letter is in the newsletter section of the blog).  Sorry for any inconvenience this caused.