Primary 5/4 had a brilliant day full of fun activities for their end of year trip. We spent the morning at Z1 where there was so many fun activities to choose from, including VR headsets, PlayStation, Xbox, table tennis, darts, air hockey, pool and music,as well as juice and slushies and chill out zones too. We ate our packed lunches at the beach park then played at the park before having a shot on the pedal boats. The children got to use the boating pond for an hour then we got ice creams and played at the beach before it was time to head back to school. What a fantastic day!

I cannot believe we are in our final term already – time has flown in! We are looking forward to a busy term in P7/6 and preparing for our future in Primary 7 and academy!

This term, we have been extremely busy preparing for our school show ‘Rock Bottom’. Children put in a lot of time and effort in order to perfect lines, delivery, singing, dancing, sound, lighting, props, backdrops etc! They did an excellent job and we are all so proud of them.

Our Talk for Writing unit this term is ‘Gadgets’. We are focusing upon persuasive writing techniques. The children started off by trying to persuade Mrs Morrison to get rid of school uniform!

In numeracy, we are focussing upon our division strategies. We are encouraging the use of CPA approaches (concentre, pictorial and abstract). In maths, we are building upon our knowledge of ‘measure’.

We baked cakes for a special coronation themed cake sale. This was part of our Make £5 Grow project. The children looked at costs of what we would need for our cake sale and we worked out selling prices to ensure we would make a profit. This combined with our previous sales at the Easter service means our total raised so far is over £100! The children will be involved in deciding how the money is spent.

We are continuing our weekly outdoor learning sessions on Fridays. Children have been learning how to safely build fires, taking part in team activities, helping to clean up our village and there is lots of time to play and have fun (climbing trees is one of our favourite things to do!)

In PE, we have been working on our athletics skills in preparation for sports day. The children are taking part in inter-house competitions including rounders, football, basketball, cross country running, javelin and long jump.

Thanks,

Miss Baillie

This term we have been learning about the Royal Family and the King’s Coronation.  We baked cakes for a special coronation themed cake sale. This was part of our Make £5 Grow project. The children looked at costs of what we would need for our cake sale and we worked out selling prices to ensure we would make a profit. This combined with our previous sales at the Easter service means our total raised so far is over £100! The children will be involved in deciding how the money is spent.

In maths we have been doing lots of practical measuring activities.

Our Talk for Writing text this term is “Mr Big.”  We used our local area for ideas for our writing by going a walk up to Brunston, where we discovered an abandoned golf club (and an abandoned door!)

We are continuing our weekly outdoor learning sessions on Fridays. Children have been learning how to safely build fires, taking part in team activities, helping to clean up our village and there is lots of time to play and have fun (climbing trees is one of our favourite things to do!)

In PE we have been working on our athletics skills in preparation for sports day. The children are taking part in inter-house competitions including rounders, football, basketball, cross country running, javelin and long jump.

Niamh Bulfin, who is our educational psychologist, has been working with us this term on Positive Psychology lessons. We have been talking about what makes us happy, what we are good it and optimism.

Primary 4-7 go outdoors every Friday. We love to explore our local area. Recently we have been learning how to build a fire and we have been playing games at the football pitch. We care for our environment and have been litter picking around the village.

This term has been a very busy one for Primary 5/4. We started our swimming sessions and have had lots of special events such as our Scottish Assembly, World Book Day, Red Nose Day and Science Week.

We started the term by learning about Scotland and Scots Language. We have now moved on to learning about our local area and castles. We completed lots of different activities during science week and we have been investigating with magnets.

In RME we have been learning about the story of Joseph and Easter. We will also be learning  about Ramadan.

In PE we have been using the apparatus to work on our gymnastics skills. We have some excellent gymnasts in our class!

Scott Morrow (maths development officer) has been working with us to learn more about using concrete materials and pictorials to help to solve problems in different ways.

We have teamed up with p7/6 to work on the project “Make £5 Grow.” Keep an eye out next term for our enterprise ideas!