P5a were very excited to receive a letter today all the way from Switzerland! We wrote to Mme Brown (neé Nicholson) in French and she wrote back to us. We were so proud of ourselves when we realised we were able to read and understand everything in her letter and are looking forward to writing back!

P3 had more fun today solving this puzzle. Some pairs used cubes and others drew and coloured in small shapes. Everyone tried an idea and then changed it as they followed the clues. We had to guess, check and improve our ideas to find the correct solution.

Red is not next to grey.

Blue is between white and grey.

Green is not a square.

Blue is on the right of pink.

Have fun finding the solution.

Comment on our Blog to let us know how you solved it and if you got the answer.

That’s great Sadie. I am delighted so many pupils have left me comments. What a lot of skills you are learning.

That’s great Sebastian. I like to puzzle out Maths problems too.

I hope Maths is always fun.

Great. I like it too.

That’s great Harris. I shall look for others to exercise your brain even more.

P4 and 5 are having a great time doing Expressive Arts and Problem Solving with our friends from other classes this term.  Every Tuesday  afternoon we get to do Art, Music, Dance or Team Challenges with either Mrs Rand, Mrs Belleville, Mrs Little or Mrs Stevenson – and the best bit is we get to mix with people we don’t get to see all the time.

Here are a few of us having a blast doing a bit of Zumba!

Primary 4 and 5 have been learning about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  This week we thought about what happens when peoples’ basic needs are not met.

We took part in an activity called ‘One for you, three for me’ to help us think about fairness in how food is shared throughout the world.  We each designed a plate of rice and a feast plate with all our favourite foods on it.  Next, we had to pick a meal ticket from a box to see whether we would be given the Rice or the Feast.  Only one third of us got to eat our feast plate while the rest only got a few grains of rice.

This activity helped us to see that while one third of the world’s population is well fed or has too much to eat, two thirds of the people in the world are not getting enough to eat.  This activity really made us think about how lucky we are and made us want to try to be more grateful for what we have.

I love Mrs Thomson’s math problems.