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Primary 5 worked very hard learning songs and information to present at the Harvest Assembly.

Together with the rest of the school they created art work to decorate the hall.After the assembly they worked hard filling bags for the nominated members of the community with groceries donated by friends and families of the school and McColl’s who once again kindly donated a fantastic quantity of goods.Mr Guthrie from the Food Bank in Girvan came along and spoke at the assembly, a few bags of groceries were donated to this worthy cause.

Transition Finale… Our theme over the past few weeks has been Pirates and after lots of activities our final bump up day had Pre-school, P1 and P2 children all in high spirits for our Pirate Party.  Yohoho!!!!!

All aboard our Pirate ship, digging for treasure and walking the plank!

We have had a very busy term 4.  We began with the Easter Service  and our telling of the Easter Story.

We then studied Fairtrade.  We learned how chocolate was produced and how Fairtrade protected the poorer in the supply chain.

We collected flowers before dissecting them and using microscopes to identify each part of the flower.

Using the art of dance we were able to demonstrate the how molecules act in solids, liquids and gasses.

We learned a lot about how to care for animals properly when the SSPCA came in for an informative, engaging and fun morning.

We had a terrific time at the Science Centre! There were laughs and lots of learning. Our short film in the observatory rounded off our Sun, Moon and Stars topic very well.

This term our topics have been Robert Burns and The Vikings.  We have studied the life of Burns and created a timeline showing key events.

While the P5s were at percussion, P4 had the opportunity to further explore Burns life and discovered that he was incredibly famous and in the year 1787 went on a tour of Scotland to promote his poems and songs.  We created a map showing some of the places he visited during the tour as well as his homes.

We have learned a variety of songs and poems which we shared with the rest of the school during our Scottish afternoon and Burns’ Supper.

We have explored the life of Vikings discovering how they travelled across the world and for what reason.  We have also looked at the life of a typical family in Viking times, where they lived, what they ate, what possessions they had, how they entertained themselves and how they worked.

We have now reached midterm and  have already achieved so much.  It has been all things Scottish so far!  The class practised their Scottish poetry, Lament for a Lost Dinner Ticket and Graffiti, for the poetry competition.  This was judged by the Jolly Beggars.  Keron Suviste took first place with his comical rendition while Derry Sharkey was the runner up.  Both performed on stage during the Scottish afternoon.  All classes enjoyed participating in this in front of friends and family.  Mr David Hunter had taught each class a Scottish song.  P3/4 sang ‘The Midges’.

The class  have started a block of outdoor learning every Thursday.  So far they have spent their time exploring the local woodland.  They have tried some basic orienteering, created  artwork using natural materials and completed a maths challenge to build the tallest stick pile in 20 minutes!

We had a busy end to term 2 as we were still working hard on our maths and literacy while balancing that with nativity practices and exciting Christmas activities.