Primary 1 have been working with PeeblesCAN throughout the year to grow, harvest, weed and tidy up our school garden. We have enjoyed observing the changes over the seasons and were excited to find insects among what we gathered!

We harvested a range of vegetables inlcuding beetroot, potatoes, peas and broad beans. The boys and girls also planted new seeds for overwintering.

The children worked particularly hard to clear and tidy our garden in their last few sessions, using different tools and equipment to do so.

A big well done to all of the Primary 1s for their hard work and a big thank you to PeeblesCAN!

This afternoon we continued to explore our BookBug bags in Primary 1 as we carried out activities based on the book ‘Sophie Johnson Unicorn Expert’ by Morag Hood.

We worked with our friends and grown-ups to make sparkly headbands.

We also blended sounds to make words with our magnetic boards and played rhyming games too.

Further games and activities related to the BookBug bags can be found following this link: https://www.parentclub.scot/articles/p1-bookbug-bag?fbclid=IwAR01taFw0G-_-4_g9Setqti9ccOTRXFV1eeFihYLefXBCrjAXJH-brvXR6U

Please join us next week on Tuesday 3rd December for our final Stay, Play and Learn session at 2.30pm. We will be looking at the last book in our bags and the children will have the opportunity to vote for their favourite book.

I enjoyed seeing some of the Xmas cards at parents’ night. There were some VERY good ones!

I liked the coloured shapes but even if I didn’t get it right I’d try it again. From Holly

We’re working on the next one Mme Brown! (p.s. P5A want to know why your name still comes up as Miss Nicholson on our Blog!)

Thank you P3/2 and Miss Finlayson. We’re glad you like our printing and we’d be happy to share our learning about Food webs with you any time!

Aujourd’hui pour la semaine du livre écossais, nous avons dessiné des livres en français.  Jacques á dit…regardez les livres!

P4 have really enjoyed making their own books to celebrate World Book Day. We worked in pairs to plan our books using a storyboard format. Then we carefully folded A4 paper to create our books before adding our story and pictures. We shared our stories with each other and then had fun doing Mrs Collin’s Book Quiz. 

We have been celebrating Book week Scotland by having stories in lots of different forms.

We have read a story outdoors at Muddy Mondays all about the cold weather. This linked in well with us talking about seasons and the children interest in ice and cold weather.

Then on Tuesday Aeya’s mum came in to do a drama/gym lesson with us and used the story “Jack Frost”. The children acted out part of the story and used their bodies in different ways to move around the gym hall! A huge thank you for doing this, the children loved it!

On Wednesday and Thursday we have been using the computer and smart board to have stories.

Tomorrow we are going to be working with primary one in the morning learning about books together.

All week children have been bringing in stories from home, and we have been sharing them at gathering time.

Please see our display in ELC and our floorbook for more photos and quotes!

I can’t wait to get another letter in the post! P5 are definitely challenging me to improve my writing in French.