P2/3 had a fabulous time when they visited Dumfries House in March. They were exploring what plants needed to grow and how to recycle some food waste by making a compost bottle. The grounds of Dumfries House are quite spectacular and would be a great place to explore the outdoors with your family. There is a great adventure play park too. Here are some photographs to show you what fun we had.
Our P7 leavers’ beach party will take place in the main hall of Knights of St Columba and will run from 7-9pm. One of our parents, Mr McClean will be DJ and Alex Graham Caterers will be provide burgers and chips. The school will provide drinks.
The theme is a beach party and the dress code is relaxed.
Parents please drop off and collect your child on the night.
Our P7 pupils have been working extremely hard to prepare for their graduation. I have been lucky to have seen a few snippets of the rehearsals and was very impressed!
We would like to invite our P7 Parents and Carers to join us for this very special event. The graduation will begin at 1.30pm and will last until approximately 2.30pm when light refreshments and snacks will be served in our community garden, weather permitting.
The weather forecast is mostly cloudy with a couple of showers so we are hoping we can go ahead on 2 June as planned. Please join us on the grass areas next to the nursery/P1 playground for a lovely day together.
The races will take place as follows –
P3 and P4 9.15am-10.30am
P1 and P2 10.45am-12.00pm
P5, P6, P7 1.00pm-3.00pm
Please arrive 5-10 minutes before the event and sign in at the tables provided then make your way to the speactators area to cheer on our budding athletes. Some seating will be provided. If additional seating is required, please ask a member of staff on the day.
Fall back day 1 is 3 June. Forecast is intervals of cloud and sunshine with a shower.
Fall back day 2 has been changed to 11 June to accomodate other school events at this busy time of the year. Forecast is considerable cloud with a shower in spots.
I haven’t planned a fall back 3 date yet. Let’s hope we don’t need it!
We were set a challenge at the start of May to design and make a family board game. We had great fun doing this. Here is one of our finished games. Our teacher was delighted with our efforts and can’t wait to try them all. We will show more of them in future blogs.
“I decided to make my board game about puppies because I love them. I also have a lovely dog of my own. We even made every single bit ourselves at home. It is good to work together as a family. My friends in the class and my teacher were very impressed.” Zoe
On Thursday morning we held an Outdoor Learning Event for our parents. We went into the Memorial Garden to look at the flowering fruit trees to study the blossom. We were also set a mathematical challenge to find a variety of different angles in the garden.
Shannon noticed that there were right angles on the stepping stones.
Kyle noticed that a straight angle could been seen along the top of the fence. Well spotted!
Several of the class noticed the set of acute angles in the spokes of the wheel which is part of the memorial plaque on the wall.
The water butt gave us a chance to look at reflex angles.
The angle that caused us the biggest problem was the angle of the rain!! We continued our learning back up in the classroom where we made bio-degradable pots and planted a variety of different seeds.
The pots were made with old newspapers and a special wooden tool – and our talents too of course.
We also got the parents involved.
“I loved doing it – and it was easy and good fun.” Leo
“I found it easy to do after watching Leo.” Cameron
We are going to fill the pots with seeds and start them growing in the classroom. Later on we can plant them straight into the garden still in their newspaper pots.
“The seeds we planted were special ones. They came in a tape and you planted them like that. We thought it would be easier than loose seeds – but it was difficult to keep the tape in the soil. We then put the seed tray in a propagator. It is like a little greenhouse and you can keep the seeds warm to help them grow.” Leah, Maaria and Skye
Back in March P2 visited Dumfries House. We had a great day learning to chop vegetables and make potato salad in the lovely learning kitchen. We all did really well trying some new food. We then went to the vegetable garden, paired up and completed a scavenger hunt. After eating our packed lunches in the farmhouse, we then took advantage of the lovely weather and had lots of fun in the adventure playground. A great day was had by all.
Mrs Inglis
P2 enjoyed their visit from the Germbuster. She talked to us about where germs are found and what they can do to us. She explained that there are some good germs as well as bad ones. We learned the importance of washing our hands and when we should do this. Germbuster had special glasses that could see germs. We really enjoyed using the Glitterbug lotion to see the germs on our hands under the special light. We then washed our hands thoroughly and looked at them again. Even Mrs Inglis had a turn – hers had lots of germs too!! Luckily we got rid of most of the germs on our hands when we washed them.
Thank you to MrsMcIntyre, aka Germbuster.
We have been working on improving our use of direct speech. We created Cartoon Strips and they had to feature a pair of characters talking to each other. They could be famous cartoon partnerships, or we could make up our own. We used a different coloured pen when each of the partners spoke. It was hard work but we enjoyed doing it and are very proud of our ‘cartoons’. The one above was created by Maaria.
Keep watching this space – more Cartoon Strips to follow!!!
We are working hard to develop our line drawing skills. What do you think of our wonderful sunflower drawings?
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