Gently releasing our baby butterflies.

We waved goodbye to our painted lady butterflies.

Group Maths and solving Problems.

We made some Beltane decorations.

Push, push, push little seed………

We learned how to use bandages in First Aid. Thank you so much to Miss Muir and her assistant for helping us to do this.

We still need a little practice………..

Hanging around at the chrysalis stage.

Preparing to fly ………..

Wow, our butterflies turned into huge painted lady varieties.

All of the caterpillars survived and developed into the most beautiful butterflies.

We released  them at our Queen’s Jubilee afternoon !  What a lovely way to end our celebrations !

by Struan and James

by Leah

by Brodie

by Eden

by Rosie

by Grace

by Zara

by Lowri

by Vivienne

by Ruby

by Taylor

Razer Dragon by Ellie

We started our week with a live lesson on water, delivered by Ecoschools and Keep Scotland Beautiful.

We learned about penguins, flapper skates, mythical water creatures and the water footprint. We were inspired to write our own stories about water creatures and today when we joined the follow up assembly we learned that we were winners! Both p5 classes have won one of Allison Galbraith’s books! We were delighted to see some of our stories shared.

Other highlights of the week

• science experiment to clean water
• continued algebra, using function machines
• joined a Scottish Sumdog competition
• learned about chance and certainty
• practised for Sports Day
• practised singing Beltane songs
• learned to deal with struggle in health and well-being

Our spelling was contractions; making two words into one using an apostrophe for missing letters.

This week we have been practicing lots for our leavers assembly, that we hope you will all enjoy…

We also had Mrs Robertson from the high school come and visit. She came with two S2 pupils to help explain and answer questions about going to the high school.

For writing we done a lot of research about Keith Haring and wrote about him and his art for our writing assessment.

In maths we our dividing decimals to help get better for high school and looking at 3D shapes and their nets.

PE we done rounders and dodgeball with Mrs Edge on Monday and Wednesday.

In music we practiced Beltane and leavers assembly songs with Mrs Ingils on Wednesday.

This week some of the class did their 1980s presentations to the class and it had to be 2-5 minutes long.

This week our spelling words were wreck, wrap, wrist, wrestle ,cherry, curry ,narrow and mirror.

On Thursday we had wonderful wellbeing and had a chance to talk to Mrs Wilkinson and record stuff for the leavers assembly.

We have done problem solving as well

Also in music John preformed his bagpipes which was very loud!

This week we have had the field for lunch and had lots of fun.

We had our last PE leadership session with the P2s and P3s.

From now to the end of term we are looking forward to….

Our two day visit.
Our leavers assembly.
Beltane.
Sports day and our transition to high school!

Written by Ruby Taylor and Millie McAllister, P7B

Today we were scientists and carried out a water cleaning experiment!

First, we got a cup of clean water. Next, we went outside and made our water as filthy as possible. This was great fun!

Finally, we worked out that we needed to develop a filtering system with holes that would trap larger objects but let the water drip through. Well done Finlay for describing this.

We said that we couldn’t drink our water even if it looked clean because there might be bacteria in it that could harm us.

Well done p5 for discovering and learning!

We spent the morning in three different workshops as part of a biodiversity live lesson on water. We have been learning about the water cycle so this was really inspiring.

workshop 1 was live from the penguin enclosure at Edinburgh zoo. We learned about the work the zoo is doing to help penguin conservation. We learned about the different ways penguins care for their eggs and we learned about an endangered species – flapper skates.

workshop 2 was from a storyteller Allison Galbraith where we joined in with sound effects for a mythical creature story. There are many Scottish mythical water creatures, selfies, kelpies, Loch Ness monster and stoor worms!

workshop 3 was all about the water footprint of everyday objects. Did you know that it takes 3 litres of water and a quarter litre of oil to produce a litre of bottled water? We learned about ways to reduce water waste and how to be more aware that products use water in the manufacturing process.

Here are some moments from the day.

We have just received our selection of Gill Lewis books which we won during a live online biodiversity lesson a few weeks ago. Now we just need to decide which one to read first!

Primary Seven A and B joined forces this afternoon for some games on the field. We saw some brilliant teamwork and encouragement from all of the children, as well as some exceptional football, tennis, hockey and rounders skills. Well done everyone!

After break we enjoyed some lemonade and Victoria sponge cakes, followed by the choice of Jubilee or Beltane crafts.

Wishing you all a wonderful long weekend, whatever your plans. See you all on Monday!

We opened our doors again at last today and welcomed parents into our classroom. It was wonderful to work together with our mums and dads and talk about our learning.

There were 4 activities; create a crown for the jubilee tea party, draw a graph of some class data we collected, try our jubilee quiz and make a miniature water cycle model.

We ended with a demonstration of our drum sticks that we made with Mat the Hat.

Thanks to everyone who came along, it made our day!