We are now in the final term, time flies when you’re having fun! We will continue with our usual homework routine. Spelling will be given out by Mr Woods on a Monday and returned on a Wednesday. Mrs Kirkwood sets us reading homework on a Wednesday to be completed for a Friday. Please check and sign your child’s yellow reading record each week. Children also get time in class each morning to read their Accelerated Reader book. When children complete a book they can then do a quiz online which allows staff to see how well they have read and understood it. Lots of children have been in the 100% club, let’s hope this continues this term!

We have been participating in the Virgin Money project ‘Make £5 Grow. ‘ This is a great way for children to learn about managing money and enterprise. We sold ice creams at our school show. We made £117 profit from this. We plan to have a special ‘Toast Thursday’ tuck shop, make keyrings and bracelets to sell and have a snack stall at Sports Day. We greatly appreciate support from parents with this project.

Mr Woods will continue to work on number, place value and the 4 operations with us in maths. Mrs Kirkwood will be teaching us about measure once we have finished our money topic. This will involve lots of fun practical activities.

For the next few weeks PE will be on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Caitlin from Active Schools teaches us on a Tuesday and on Wednesdays we will join with P7/6 to take part in inter-house competitions in preparation for Sports day. Please ensure your child has a full change of PE kit on these days, including t-shirt, shorts/trousers and shoes. No jewellery should be worn on PE days please.  Outdoor learning will continue this term. Please check the newsletter dates for the diary for specific dates.

Our topic for this term will be ‘ Our Community’. Mr Woods has a special art project planned, keep an eye out for this! We will also be learning about lifecycles in Science.

We started this term with learning about the Scots Language. We learned the songs “The New Teacher” and “Wild Mountain Thyme” and performed them at our Scottish afternoon. Primary 5 learned the poem “The Dusty Miller” and Primary 4 did “Graffiti.” We also completed projects about the life of Robert Burns and designed our own kilts, which you will see around the hall. Well done to our poetry, artwork and project winners.

We have been writing our own poems. We have written Haikus, Limericks and rhyming poems. We are now moving on to our next Talk for Writing unit, which is based on the text “The Class Trip.”

Reading homework is given out on a Wednesday and should be completed for a Friday. It is important this homework is done as we then complete a quiz on Accelerated Reader on the book we have read. Lots of children have been achieving great scores and we are all aiming to be in the 100% club! We have a display of our reading achievements in the library area. Spelling homework is given out on a Monday and is to be completed for a Wednesday.

In Science we have been learning about our senses. We have already completed smell tests, taste tests and a guess the sound test. This is a fun topic and we have been sharing some of these activities, plus learning in other curricular areas on Learning Journals. Please make sure you login to see what your child has been learning. We have also been learning about the weather, which was a very significant topic during Storm Eowyn. We wrote and presented our own weather forecasts and have been looking at how the weather impacts us. We will be learning more about climate change too.

In maths we have been working on fractions and division. We will soon become young entrepreneurs when we begin the Virgin Money project Make £5 Grow. One of our parents will be helping us and hopefully we can make lots of profit for our school funds. This project will help us to learn all about managing money.

This term we have PE on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Caitlin from Active Schools has been doing football with us on Tuesdays and Mrs Kirkwood has been teaching us gymnastics on a Wednesday. Please ensure your child has full PE kit on these days, including a change of shoes and no jewellery.

Primary 5/4 and Primary 7/6 wowed us with their talent, playing Christmas carols on the steel drums under the guidance of Mrs. Gibson, right at the end of our nativity performance.

It was the perfect way to add even more holiday cheer to the celebration! We couldn’t be prouder of these talented children. What a magical way to kick off the festive season!

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Primary 4-7 have had a brilliant Christmas party this morning! Lots of games, dancing, snacks and showing off our Scottish Dancing skills! We have had lots of fun!