Primary 2/3 have been showing off what they have learned in gymnastics. They can perform their skills using apparatus. This has been challenging. They performed rolls, balances, jumps and poses. 
Balances in gymnastics
Primary 2 have been learning how to balance. They have also been working together to perform mirror balances.
Balances in gymnastics
We have been working on our balances in primary 2/3. We have been working in pairs to perform mirror balances.
Primary 6 gymnastics routines
Primary 6 have been working on using their gymnastics skills in a routine. Today they worked in groups of their own choice. The routines had to include rolls, inversions, round offs, cartwheels, balances and dance.
We ended today’s lesson with a bit of fun.
Our Aims and Values
As part of our School Improvement Plan we are looking at our School Aims and Values.
Thank you to all parents who took the time to read and offer their feedback at our Parent’s Evening last night.
Our next step in this process is to consult with our children and staff to make our aims and values are written in a more child friendly language.
Sign Language
Today as we were reading our class novel, Kensuke’s Kingdom, we recognised that Kensuke and Michael had difficulties communicating. We learned some sign language today and used this to communicate a message to each other.
Aiden: “I found it hard because you can get mixed up with some of the letters”.
Conlan: “I found it quite easy to make the signs with my hand”.
Blayre: “I was able to understand Keelan’s message”.
Gabriella: “It’s really hard to understand your partner”.
Helen: “I found it hard to understand my partner”.
Emilia: “I liked when we were challenging our partners.”
The Bedtime Book Buddies
Thank you to everyone who came to the second Bedtime Book Buddies group…. you were very brave to brace the weather! We listened to a lovely story called Eric Makes A Splash and we drew a new animal friend for Eric. We shared some great stories and giggled at Pirates Love Underpants. We will have our next meeting on Thursday 15th November.
I’m as tall as a… 🐒🐧🐘
In maths we have started a new topic, Measure.
What did you learn on Monday?
Sara: “We were learning about measure length.”
Mia: “I learned that we could measure lots of stuff. Some are hard some are easy.”
Something very important in this topic is using a ruler properly. Can you remember the rules for using a ruler?
Milosz: “That you don’t start at the beginning you start at the zero on the ruler.”
Louise: “Always put the zero at the start.”
The class worked in small groups to create an animal height chart.
Alan: “1 person held the start, 1 person was gluing in the animals, 1 person was drawing the line and the last person was holding the end.”
Chelsea: “We drew the chalk where the animal was.”
Leon: “We used a measuring tape to see where the animal was because the height was on the picture.”
I’m as tall as a…
Sara: “rhino”
Chelsea: “penguin”Alexander: “the penguin.”
Leon: “just at the rhino”
Dominik: “the rhino”
Kian: “a was over the penguin”
Emily: “I was as tall as a penguin.”
Sacrament Meeting ✝️
This afternoon whilst their parents were discussing the Sacraments, children from P2/3, P3/4 and P4/5 helped to create some beautiful artwork that will be displayed in the Church.
P7 Team Games
Things got very competitive during our gym lesson today!! Healthy competition mind you! Scroll down for some pictures of us playing ‘Hoop Hop Challenge’ and our new class game ‘Jailbreak’.
Parker- “we were working on our stamina and luck in this game .”
Abbie- “I was jumping as fast as I could.”
Yusuf- “we were hopping through the hoops to beat our team.”
Neve and Yusuf playing rock, paper and scissors to decide who gets to continue.
We then moved onto jailbreak. This game focuses on working together as a team to try and steal balls from the other team.
