It has been a perfect week for P1 to look more at how water freezes and ice melts and to relate it to the frosty mornings and snowy weather! On Monday we did ice experiments, predicting and then testing to see whether salt, sugar or hot water melted the ice fastest.

We also worked in groups to make ice ornaments to hang in the playground. Hopefully the children managed to share these with you and tell you why they were melting.

Photographs by Ayla

Other highlights this week have been eating pancakes on Tuesday, learning to takeaway in maths and the ch sound in phonics. We are all excited for World Book Day next Thursday!

Jack enjoyed trying on the Roman weapons! He agrees very heavy and would not enjoy being a Roman!

We studied the design of the Scottish Parliament Building and recreated the MSP Pods.

We made and cooked delicious pancakes.  We could choose butter, jam or Nutella to have on top.  They were delicious.

Rob came to talk to us about the Roman fort near Melrose and to show us some of the artefacts that have been found there.  We got to hold a 1800 year old Roman playing piece from a game and also got to try on some replica armour. It was great fun but we decided being a soldier must have been hard work as the armour was very heavy!

Rob came to talk to us about the Roman fort near Melrose and to show us some of the artefacts that have been found there.  We got to hold a 1800 year old Roman playing piece from a game and also got to try on some replica armour. It was great fun but we decided being a soldier must have been hard work as the armour was very heavy!

We had great fun this morning celebrating Kingsland’s 10th Birthday. One of our activities was to design and create a birthday cake in our groups. We all worked together to make our best creations for the Bake Off judges. Joshua and Aiden’s group won with an amazing chocolate cake that looked like fireworks.

We’ve had lots of fun this morning taking part in activities across the school to celebrate Kingland’s 10th birthday.

Here is our Kingsland acrostic poem:

Kicking balls in the MUGA

I love reading!

Numbers, numbers, numbers!

Great fun at PE

School is awesome

Learning signalong

Amazing art

Never stop learning

Deeds not words!

This morning we celebrated Kingsland’s 10th Birthday in the new school building.   We had mixed classes from P1 to P7 and were all with different teachers.

I enjoyed designing and colouring a cake for the school’s birthday.  Rana

I enjoyed the musical corners game even though I was the first one out.  Rayyan

I enjoyed playing charades at the end of the session.  Oliver J

I liked being in a mixed group and made a friend called Matthew.  Thomas

I was with Mrs Collins and enjoyed flipping and fish along the corridor.  Sam

I enjoyed playing charades and acting out Beauty and the  Beast.  Charlie

I enjoyed making the football pitch themed cake.  Oliver R

I enjoyed playing musical bumps.  Daniel

This week we have been exploring algebra. We have looked at the patterns and pictures, rather than numbers, that help us understand maths and be able to apply it in different areas. We have discovered that we all see and solve problems in different ways.