Thank you to our parents for joining in with our parent open morning today. Our next open morning will be on Thursday 22nd September from 10.45am until 11.45am. Following the session, we would like to invite you to join your child for lunch so that you can sample some of the food that we provide. All of the children receive a free lunch and adults are able to purchase a two course lunch on the day for £2.68.
Primary 5, 6 and 7 were learning to work as part of a team during outdoor learning with Caitlin from Active Schools. They took part in a scavenger hunt in the woods and finished off their afternoon with a game of rounders.
On Thursday 28th April we began our outdoor project to up date and improve our playground area. Mr Woods and a team of pupils began work on a sensory path, linking the top and bottom playgrounds. Mrs Cunningham and her team were weeding and tidying the raised beds and path area. The remainder of the pupils did an excellent job of repainting the fences, along with a few hands!
On our first trip outdoors after the Easter holidays we made some additions to our outdoor den up by the castle. We added some additional logs for seating and creating a wind break with some large branches. Everyone worked hard to make the area look more inviting and had great fun at the same time.
In P7/6 China has been our focus topic this term. We have spent time doing lots of practical activities such as creating a working bobsleigh track and building a model birds nest stadium (inspired by the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022) , sculpting our own Terracotta Army, perfecting our Chinese calligraphy and practising our paper folding skills with some origami.
Here are our winners for the Scottish Poems, Art and Project.
Here is the link to enjoy a video of the Burns Supper
So far this term, P7/6 have continued to work on our Blue Planet topic but with a focus on sustainability and COP26.
We have spent some time learning about the Sustainable Development Goals and how we can become more eco-friendly, making ‘Climate Pledges’ that we displayed on our tree.
We focussed on Goal number 6 ‘Clean Water and Sanitation’ and designed and tested Dirty Water Filters during an exciting hands-on science lesson.
Over the past few weeks we have all learned a lot about how if everyone makes little changes can make a big difference to the planet. We are ready to go out there and make change!
This term as our topic we have been looking at our blue planet. We started learning all about the structure of the Earth, different rocks and minerals and even got the chance to investigate some local fossils that Miss Houston found near Kirk Hill just outside of Dailly. These fossils showed us that an ancient seabed was once there, up on the top of the hill!
We have done some thorough research on the oceans around the
world and will continue to look at the life in the oceans, how we humans depend so much on it and ultimately how important it is that we start to look after our blue planet. There is so much to learn and we are all so excited about the things we still have to do, therefore, this topic will run into Term 2.
Lots of fun and learning was had during this years Math Week Scotland. P7/6 enjoyed getting to practice a variety of different mathematical skills every day with exciting challenges and active maths activities.
