We had an exciting start to the week this morning.

We were signing with Mrs Ryalls when a hedgehog ran past the classrooms! It then ran to the garden before running back. It was quite confused and zigzagging across the playground.

Mrs McGilp opened the door to check where it was and very nearly stood on it! It had stopped outside the P2/1 classroom door. Mrs Collins scooped it into a box and Mr Collins collected it and contacted the SSPCA.

We had regular updates and later found out the hedgehog is expecting hoglets. Mr Collins released it back to a safer spot in the school boundaries where it can hopefully have its hoglets in peace.

We did some fantastic drawing and recount writing about the hedgehog.

P5 did a great job coding on Monday as part of the Hackathon.

First we found out a little more about the Micro:bits, opened the new Micro:bits and we coded a mood badge, a beating heart and a dice.

Then we learned a little more about using technology to help the planet and we coded lights for sea turtles. When baby sea turtles are born, they are confused by bright beach lighting. We looked at an invention where the Micro:bits were coded to use their low LED lighting when the light level drops, to help guide the hatchlings back to the sea and also to remind people that the turtles are there.

We then learned a little more about the Do your :bit Challenge and the UN’s Global Goals. The challenge is to use the Micro:bits to come up with a solution to help a global issue. This year the challenge is focusing on Global Goals number 3 and 13, Good Health and Wellbeing and Climate Action.

In groups we came up with some fantastic inventions to enter the challenge. Some groups thought about the impact of COVID and how isolated we’ve all been, creating games to play with neighbours, lights and music to help us sleep or an alarm to say when we’ve had too much screen time and should go outside and take a moment! Other groups focused on climate action, thinking about overfishing, collecting plastic in the seas, using the Micro:bits to help planting and also to reduce food wastage.

We finished off by coding animations of our day. It was a busy introduction to the Micro:bit but we all learned a little more about coding and how technology can be used to help solve world problems.

Well done Primary 5!

We’ve had another busy week. We had Mrs Thomson on Monday and we learned the ‘ng’ sound as in sing, ring and finger.

On Tuesday we had great fun at Sports Day. We then wrote about this and drew some lovely pictures on Wednesday.

Also this week we’ve started looking at data handling, learning what a pictogram is and creating our own class pictograms on our favourite flavours of ice creams and favourite pets. Today we looked at making tally marks to collect our data, finding out our favourite thing to do at school. Numeracy was most popular, followed by PE and lunch!

This week we’ve also started doing some junk modelling which we will continue next week. We’ve had robots, ramps for cars and tunnels for a guinea pig!

In our art this week we stayed on the ice cream theme and made a collage of our own favourite flavour, painting the background a summer shade then taking our time to cut out and glue lots of little squares. We finished off with a choice of sprinkles.

We were also very excited this morning to see our tigers on the wall outside our classroom. Thank you Mrs Ryalls for the great display!

Primary 1 have been thinking about how to sort, organise and group objects either by colour, shape, size, type.

Today we were learning how to sort information and display it, in a way that is easy to read and understand, in a graph. We made a pictogram about our favourite ice-cream, chocolate was the most popular.

We were very excited when the teddies spent some time in our classroom. We had to teach them about our different routines and share our learning with them. They even came out to play at playtime!

We have been using the liquid made by the worms, “worm tea” to water the garden as its full of goodness that will help our plants grow.

We have been continuing to weed and plant different vegetables  in the garden such as pumpkins, courgettes and peas.

During play we use the different loose parts such as corks, pieces of wood, cotton reels etc to build models.
This picture shows a fabulous tiger enclosure made by some of the children.

oi

Last week we were building words with the oi sound for example oil, coil, voice, and point. We shared the story of Oi Frog by Kes Gray and Jim Field and then we made our own oi frog. We learnt how to draw the frog, in the story by watching Jim Field drawing online. We were really proud of our pictures.

ng
This week we are learning about the ng sound as in strong, song, ring, and bang. We have been using our knowledge of sounds to read and build ng words. We shared the story of Mr Strong.

er

We have been learning to read and write words with the er sound . We shared the story of the Tiger Who Came to Tea, we then wrote our own descriptions of the tiger and drew pictures with oil pastels and painted pictures of the tiger. We had great fun making puppets of the different characters in the story and making a meal for the tiger.