I enjoyed when we read the non-fiction book polar bears and one of our friends read the index I enjoyed it because after we made the index into a song.

We have had a fantastic p5 year together and are looking back on some of our achievements.
I am very proud of you all and wish you all the best in P6.

Mrs Lloyd

We were delighted to receive our prize book from storyteller Allison Galbraith, it is full of mythical stories related to nature.

We had a visit from the Cornet, the lass and previous Cornets and lasses. Well done to Struan for winning the horseshoe for correctly answering that this is the Beltane’s 125th anniversary.

We enjoyed Beltane lunch on Thursday. It was great to be back together and sing for all the special guests. Thank you Mrs Clyde and the team for the delicious food!

We finished writing our imaginative stories about the perilous journey of a water droplet. We made our stories into illustrated books.

In maths we used various strategies to solve the mystery of the missing snack! It involved number operations, using data in tables and finding equivalent fractions.

Our spelling was revision of the -ear. -air and -ure patterns.

Wider achievements- Struan earned this medal from a gymnastics competition. His favourite event is the vault. Cara wore this jacket when she took part in the Beltane horse riding. She is pleased to pin the 2022 ribbon on. Well done to both of you!

We have had a very busy but fun Beltane week in P6.

We have had our very own flappy horse race. We also enjoyed our own fancy dress competition today.

The class have really enjoyed the community events organised by the Beltane Committee this week.

We are looking forward to Beltane Saturday tomorrow.

This week we have been continuing our Leavers’ Assembly preparations and we look forward to sharing our work with the school and our parents on Tuesday 28th June.

On Tuesday, we enjoyed a range of activities in Sports Day. We saw lots of teamwork and encouragement from the P7s. A big thank you to Mrs Edge for all of her hard work in organising such a successful event!

We spent Wednesday and Thursday up at the High School, where we experienced a variety of new subjects and met our new form and practical classes. Here are some of our highlights below:

A big thank you to all of the staff who made this visit so welcoming and successful!

We really enjoyed sports day on Tuesday and did our best. It was a chance to work with others from p4-7 from our houses, and to try different activities.

In class we spent time playing board games together.

In writing we are writing an imaginative story based on the water cycle. Our main character, a water droplet, goes on its journey and encounters some challenges! To be continued…

Wider achievements come from Beth and Cara as they got new blue belts in karate. This is up a level from green. Congratulations!

Last month  Vivienne took part in the Edinburgh Marathon Festival, running 2K! Here she is with her medal. Well done!

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