Welcome to our March Reflective Friday post. We have had an amazing month learning in all curricular areas. Maths has been really interesting as Mrs Cook has been using lots of fun ways to teach us about fractions using number jacks. We have enjoyed our problem solving tasks in our cooperative learning groups on a Friday morning. We have to work as a team to solve the challenge using logic and numeracy. We are learning a lot from the reporting back sessions too.

In literacy we have been studying the short novel “ Cheat “ by Judy Waite and Mrs Wilson has been teaching us about grammar when she is with us on Friday. This month we looked at homonyms and similes. Take a look at the photos we have posted here where we made up our own similes to describe our emotions in a way that was meaningful to us.

We have made our Lenten promises and checked in weekly to support one another in keeping strong.

We had our own fashion show based on recyclable objects which demonstrated our creativity, deepened our understanding of sustainability and showed we have amazing fashion sense !

We have planted seeds to find out which germinate quickly and which take longer despite being exposed to the same conditions. Our cress grew over the weekend so we are going to make sandwiches today to enjoy the fruits of our hard work, zero food miles for this snack !

Our vegetable seeds are coming on well and we will ask Mr Crielly to take care of them during the holidays so that we can plant them out in late April in the school planters and down at the allotment.

We hope to make soup with the vegetables we grow as they will also have zero food miles.

We have enjoyed learning about martial arts in PE too. What a busy month !!

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This month has seen us say goodbye to Mrs Gardner and welcome to Mrs Cook and Mrs Wilson who will be working with us now.

We really enjoyed Global Play Day and had great fun using our imagination and developing our social skills. At Thinking Circles we had to justify our reasoning for repeating this in 2020, hopefully Mrs Wilson was convinced !

We all took part in the 2 day programme on Developing The Young Workforce and learned a great deal about the range of career opportunities that are available from being a teacher or an engineer right through to becoming  an entrepreneur making bird food.Here are some photos of the humane mouse traps we were designing as part of our engineering focus with Mrs leblond.We have been starting to look at our environmental footprint and what we can do to affect and reduce this as part of our interdisciplinary learning this month. February isn’t over yet and we are looking forward to next week and the launch of Fairtrade fortnight when the whole school will be participating in lots of fun activities from face painting to baking banana loaf! Thursday will be our focus day for this and we are very excited by the wide range of ideas that are being suggested for us to raise awareness of Fairtrade fortnight.

In literacy we have been learning to write newspaper articles

In numeracy we have been deepening our understanding of subtraction and decomposition.

In RE we have been learning about the muslim faith and the significance of the Qur’aan. We have also been drawing our own Arabic prayer mats.

We are looking forward to the month ahead and addressing our social studies and technologies targets.

P4/5 were incredibly lucky to get to go to the Glasgow Science Centre on Thursday. We loved exploring the top level all about human biology and we are looking forward to learning more about how best to look after our bodies.

P1 have had a fantastic December. We worked so hard on our Nativity play and really enjoyed performing for all the mums and dads. We also really enjoyed our Christmas party where we did lots of Scottish dancing, had yummy treats and were even visited by Santa and his elf!

We also had a visit from one of Santa’s helpers, Elfie. He came to check that all the boys and girls were behaving in class and gave us presents of new books to read. Each day we opened a new present and enjoyed reading the book together.

We also went on a trip to the pantomime where we saw Jack and the Beanstalk. This was great fun. In literacy, we have finished learning all our initial sounds. In maths, we know our numbers to ten and have been working hard on 2D shapes. In Science, we have been learning about the season of winter and the North Pole. In HWB, we made fruit kebabs and discussed the different tastes and textures of the different foods.

P1 would like to wish everyone a very happy and holy Christmas.

This month has been an important one for the children in our class who have been working hard to prepare for First Friday Mass which they will lead this Friday, All Souls Day. In preparation for this Mass, for the past few weeks we have been remembering our own loved ones who have gone before us, and the children have spent time practising their prayers which they will read on Friday.

On a different note, this month the children also had the exciting task of designing comic strips to teach other children about the health benefits of incorporating more eggs into their diet. These comic strips will be entered into a competition where the winner will have their comic strip drawn by a professional comic book artist!

The children got to see a Treasure Island production which took place within the school, and which they really enjoyed. They also loved doing their Halloween arts and crafts activities in the lead up to Halloween.