Before the Spring holidays, the Primary 2 classes held an Eid Festival as part of their Eid topic. They got to try lots of different types of food such as: sauce, spicy onions, pitta bread, pakora, vegetable pakora and lots of different dips. After they had tried all of the different types of food, they did some traditional Eid dancing. The P2s were excellent at it!

Next they painted some Hindi tattoos and they thought it was very fun! The Primary 2s had lots of beautiful clothes on for the festival. They all had lots and lots of fun and they hope to do something like that again!

Our new P4 topic is Minibeasts . So far, we have talked about invertebrates and vertebrates . We have done a bit of work designing posters for the classroom wall for vertebrates . Everybody had  stunning ideas . The amphibians were the hardest to draw!

Look out for more information and pictures from our topic soon!

Recently P4 have been making factories about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Have a look at them below!

P4a winner – Joe Dyer

P4b winner – Aimee  McNab

P4c winner – Matthew Barron

P4a runner up – Matthew McGowan

P4b runner up – Xanthe Thomson

P4c runner ups – Grieg  Ritchie and Millie Scarf

P4a 3rd place –  Jayden Canaven and Caleb Proven

P4b 3rd place –  Emily Todd

P4c 3rd place –  Qasim  Quyam

This week we were really excited as a special parcel was delivered to the class! 5 caterpillars have joined us in the class!!

We will be watching the caterpillars eat all the food they have in their special cup and then in 7 to 14 days they will climb to the top of the cup and attach themselves to the paper lid. We are hoping to see them change into beautiful butterflies!

The caterpillars are on our minibeast table and have started crawling about their cup and eating their special food.  We will keep you updated on their progress!

We are all looking forward to returning to the Assessment and Development Class on Tuesday to see if the caterpillars have been eating their food and have grown!

This week in the Assessment and Development Class we have been singing ‘The Ugly Bug Ball’. We used instruments to keep the beat!

We have been working really hard this week!

This week’s learning focus

• the sound /g/
• Three Blind Mice
• ‘Mad About Minibeasts’ story, gym and drama activities
• Looking for Minibeasts with no legs!

We have started a new topic all about  Minibeasts!

This week we have been reading the story ‘Mad About Minibeasts’

Today we talked about insects with no legs. We read the stories about worm, snail and slug.

Before lunch we went on Minibeast Hunt in the school as the sun was shining! We all successfully found some worms and slugs.

We were very careful with the minibeasts we found. We also remembered to put them back where we found them when we were finished looking at them.

We all had a great time!

P6 did some amazing  pieces of music for our music lesson.

We decided to use a glockenspiel, drumsticks and boomwhackers for our tunes. We all got into groups and we whacked them and played brilliant tunes. We only got to see two groups but we are sure they are all fabulous.

We really liked doing the music class outside and we want to do music in the playground again.

http://bbc.in/1ReA0bd – Click the link to watch the short video.

Our ‘Build it Scotland’ team at West Primary visit Paisley Abbey to research their chosen landmark, ahead of returning to school to get building in Minecraft and SketchUp. Their visit helps them to understand the materials they’ll need to build with and what design decisions they’ll need to make to ensure their 3D models are accurate.

For the past few weeks, Primary 2 have been working on lots of different topics. P2b have been making moonlight silhouettes, Mosques and star constellations. P2c have been learning about Chinese symbols and Vincent Van Gogh which they have been doing some fantastic art on.