This term we have been spending lots of time in our ELC garden. Yesterday we had our first “Garden Stay and Play” – a big thank you to all the parents who were able to come in or hand in things for our garden!

We have been doing lots of planting, flowers and different types of fruit and vegetables.

” I have helped grow plants”

” I know what plants need to grow”

With help from our parents/carers we have been painting stones for our bug hotel, making a fairy garden, digging in log stepping stones, painting our outdoor tables and planting wild flowers!

We have been using lots of empty cardboard boxes to build towers, walls and bridges.  We are discovering what makes a strong structure and the importance of size and shape.  Here is a wall built by some pupils in P2B.  How strong do you think it is?

p.s. If you have any boxes lying around we’d love a few more large ones (bigger than a cereal box).  Thank you.

P2B have been learning the names of the colours in French.  We decided to make our art lesson about colour mixing into a French colour mixing activity.

We made colour sums and mixed paint to make new colours then wrote the French colour names when it was dry.

Do you know the answers to these colour sums?

rouge plus jaune égal ____

bleu plus rouge égal ____

noir plus blanc égal ____

P2A have their teeth varnished today – Monday.

P2B have their teeth varnished tomorrow- Tuesday.

Please do not brush teeth the evening your teeth are varnished but, you can start to brush them again the following morning.

Keep up these sparkling smiles, Primary 2 !

This week it has been Primary 5a’s responsibility to clean up the litter in the playgrounds.  We have conscientiously carried out this task.  Well done Primary 5.

We also went on a bug hunt to help the Green Team with a survey.

We have been learning about Area in Maths and some of us have created our own shape monsters. Then we counted the squares or used cubes/counters to measure the amount of area they take up.

We can take our learning outdoors and make shape monsters on the playground with chalk then measure the area they take up using our hands and feet.

How can we use the paving bricks to explore Area ?

A big thank you to Mrs. Musgrave. We really enjoyed her talk about Fotheringham Bridge in Peebles and the story behind it.

After her talk we began to plan our own stories based on the three Billy Goats’ Gruff. Our stories are set in Pebbles and our characters have to cross a bridge over the River Tweed. Under the bridge there live a range of scary things from trolls to dragons and monsters.

Primary 5 Scientists have been carrying out different experiments to answer some questions.

Last week we carried out experiments to see what materials dissolve in water and we found that salt, sugar and coffee were soluble materials.  Sawdust and sand were insoluble.

Then this week we used our soluble materials to try and answer these questions:

Does the temperature of water make a material dissolve more quickly?

Does stirring make a material dissolve more quickly?

Does the size of the bits of the material make is dissolve more quickly?

Can we clean dirty water?

We have had to predict what we think will happen and make sure that we carried out  fair tests.  Everything had to be exactly the same apart from one variable.   We have had lots of fun being Scientists.

We have been enjoying the sunny weather and been doing lots of different activities outdoors!

We went a walk aroud the school, used the school mugga, and had a picnic up there. It was yummy!

We have been busy starting to plant and gig in our ELC garden!

We are looking forward to our Garden stay and Play for our parents to get involved with our garden too.

We also planted some cress in ELC and then got to take them home.