In primary 6 we are doing I.C.T and we are posting things on the school blog. We are learning how to upload photos onto the blog.

This afternoon p6 are learning how to use the school blog it is really fun every body is having fun.  We are trying to upload photos – we may need more practise with this.

Room 3 are doing gym in pairs with Mrs Arthur, they put down a cone to start and see how far they can jump in one. Everyone was trying their best! Most classes enjoy gym.

Well done to all our candidates who presented a speech to become this years House Captains.  We were so proud of all of our pupils for speaking confidently in front of an audience.  Once the speeches were done, it was time for the rest of us to go into Room 7 and fill out our ballot papers for our best candidate.

Congratulations to our successful pupils.

Arden House

Captain: Sara Lavery       Vice-Captain: Warren Lavery

Lang House

Captain: Millie Carson  Vice-Captain: Logan McGreechin

Muir House

Captain: Melissa Stoddart  Vice-Captain: Zoe McLean

We had a Sports Champion visit today from Louise Renicks, Commonwealth gold medalist for judo.  She spent time with classes doing  some circuit training and then demonstrated some judo techniques.  She then spent some time talking to pupils about how she achieved her success and how she had to work extremely hard to get there.  She linked her hard work and dedication back to some of our own school values.  Thank you to everyone for their enthusiasm and for parents and friends for sponsoring children to take part.

Well done to everyone today who helped with planting our raised beds.  We have started a wildflower garden, sunflower area, sensory garden and some classes planted vegetables.  Thanks again to our Parent Council for their support with this.

Thanks to everyone who attended our quiz night.   We all had great fun and we would like me to say a big thank you to Mrs Rusk and the Parent Council and Friends of Kirk O’Shotts groups for organising the event.

For the past two weeks Room 2 have been learning French with Mrs. Towers. We have learned a French rap song all about numbers and we really enjoy taking part in the lessons.

In maths our focus has been Number Talk strategies, to help us with mental maths, and shape. We know the names of different 2D shapes and 3D objects and we can describe them. This week we have moved on to information handling, using tally marks to create bar graphs.

By Aaron, Amira, Kira, Lexi and Mitchell.

In the last two weeks we have been learning all about the human brain and why it is so important. The brain is the most important organ in the body and it helps you think and talk.

In maths we have been working on Number Talks, looking at ways to make our mental maths easier. We know about number bonds, for example 60+40 = 100. We have just started the maths topic of measure. We know that measure can mean length or weight and we use different measurements for each. For example kg means kilogram and is used to measure weight whereas we can measure length in cm (meaning centimetre), mm (meaning millimetre) and km (meaning kilometre).

By Melissa and Xander