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The P2 garden has been planted!

As we are now learning about the human body, we decided to plant a garden to appeal to the senses. We have pretty flowers, smelly plants, plants which rustle in the breeze, plants which have a distinct taste as well as plants with unusual textures.

Feel free to look over the fence (on the site of the old nursery) to look at our efforts.

A HUGE thank-you to our’ flower fairies’, Mrs Payne and Mrs Wong,  both of whom paid visits over the weekend to water the plants. Our gorgeous weather this weekend might just have ruined our garden without their efforts! Whilst the good weather continues we are open to helpers 🙂

Last week, Primary 2 was delighted to be chosen to have a visitor in school who taught us how to use an i-pad app to make our own clips about our ‘Under the Sea’ topic. We worked in pairs and used a number of pictures inserting them into a  presentation adding voice overs, information, photographs of ourselves and our work as well as animations to direct the viewers attention to things we wanted to highlight. The children were much better at this than Mrs Wilkie!

We have asked P7 for their i-pad slot when they are at Loch Insh and we plan to have another go at making our own clips!

Here are some photos from our visit to @Riverbrae last week.  We had a fantastic time and hope to be able to see our friends at Riverbrae School again!

Primary 1 have been loving the sun. We have been out for Golden Time everyday this week playing with the toys we bought from our open afternoon raffle. Thanks again everyone!

Primary 1

We worked with a partner to program a Beebot on the iPads. We had to use the forward, backward, right and left buttons.

Primary 1 have been investigating the weight of classroom objects.

P3 tuned in to the Authors Live event with Ross Collins who wrote one of our favourite books ‘There’s a bear on my chair’! Ross Collins read us the story and told us how he thought of it and the characters. Then he showed us step by step how to draw the bear. Here are some of our pictures!

Some of P3 were learning about information handling today using Skittles! We sorted our colours, recorded the information and displayed it in a bar graph. We compared our graphs with each other to see who had more or less of each colour and after counting how many Skittles we had altogether we realised that not all packets of Skittles have the same number of sweets inside! Maths + sweets = great fun!

We have now started our new topic,’ The Human Body’, which is linked to the  Health and Wellbeing curriculum. The children are full of interesting facts and have been bringing in a variety of things to share in class. This week we were able to view an x-ray following on from learning about the skeleton. We have also been finding out about the digestive system and in the next couple of weeks we are looking at the heart and lungs. We are also finding out how to care for our emotional and physical wellbeing.

Diorama Winners

Today was the day when the diorama winners were finally announced. Everybody could have been a winner they were all fantastic. However, we gave the job of choosing a winner to the whole staff of Wallace Primary as we handed out voting forms to staff members as they toured the classroom to view our ‘Under the Sea’ display. Two winners emerged edging out the  competition by a mere 1 vote each. So…

Well Done to our super prize winners below.

Gardening Day

Last week we went out to litter pick on our section of the playground and to check on our raised beds in the school garden.

We have been discussing what we want to plant and weather permitting we plan to have everything planted by the end of May

Watch this space to see what we chose…