Primary 1 and P2/1 have been putting their banana skins and apple cores into the compost bin. The dinner ladies have been giving us their fruit and veg peelings to put in our bin.

Enjoying healthy snacks at playtime!

The compost bin is filling up!

We’ve had a lovely sunny week back.  We’ve been looking at the ‘oa’ sound this week. On Monday we made plasticine boats and then tested to see whether they would float. Only three boats floated and we looked at what they had in common – thin walls, sides to hold air in and water out, no holes and a large surface area or a big bottom! We then tried again on Tuesday when many more boats floated.

Also for the ‘oa’ sound we’re writing a three part story about a goat with a new coat. We’re making up the story together. First the goat is walking through the forest in his new coat. Then he meets a pheasant with a twisted ankle! We’ll finish the final instalment next week. Today we made plasticine coats for goats, using tools to help us.

For the next part of our RSPB Wild Challenge we’ve started planting and composting. We’ve been saving our fruit peels and collecting the vegetable peels for the kitchen to feed to the worms in our compost bins. For our planting, first we are germinating seeds in the classroom in our makeshift green houses. We’re hoping the shoots will start sprouting soon. Next week we will start planting seeds in our school garden.

In numeracy this block we’ve moved on to money – looking at the different coins and adding them up. We’ve set up a book shop in the classroom to practise addition and subtraction when we’re paying for books and getting the correct change.

Some of the children’s highlight’s this week have been:

‘Writing the goat in the coat story.’

‘Reading the story about the fox who fixes things.’

‘Watching the assembly.’

‘Making the boats.’

It’s great to be back after the holidays! P7 have been enjoying being able to eat their packed lunched outside on the balcony or near the MUGA.

We’ve been straight back into learning with lots to keep us busy and engaged.  Here are a few of the things we’ve been up to this week:

• Learning about Grit and Resilience in our Online session with Jen and Ian from Live’n’Learn
• Identifying the features of a ‘Response’ Text
• Exploring a visual text and looking for themes/hidden messages
• An introduction to algebra and algebraic expressions and developing our ‘Maths Mindset’
• Converting and Understanding 12 and 24 hour times
• Learning correct terminology for parts of the body
• Researching life cycles of various plants and animals

Which of Skipper’s Tools have you used this week?

Here is a quick reminder:

We have had great fun this week creating our own story books all about monsters. We have each made a pet monster, given it a name and started writing about what happens when the monster follows us to school one day. Surprisingly, things don’t go very well! We will hopefully share some of our finished stories soon.

We have worked hard on our first week back in school after the holidays.

Our persuasion exposition text this week has been on Homework Should be Banned.  We have had lots of great ideas in relation to this.

We are continuing to work on fractions and we are becoming more confident working with mixed numbers, improper fractions, equivalent fractions and simplifying fractions.  This can be tricky at times when we have to order fractions that have different denominators and we have to make them all the same!

We enjoyed our Live N Learn Workshop on Tuesday thinking about Grit:  Give it your all; Re-Do if Necessary;  Ignore ‘Giving Up and Take time to do it right and we have came up with a Resilience Plan.

We have also been thinking about strategies to help us stay safe and thinking about the people we trust in our life to help us with our worries.  We thought about our worries and had fun with bubbles trying to ‘pop’ worries.

In PE we  played rounders and working on some athletics skills eg running, jumping and throwing.

Share what you have enjoyed this week or what you have learned this week.

On the last week of term we had decorated our door to say farewell to Mrs Wilson.

We have had a great first week back.

We have been looking at division and measure in maths.

We have been learning about exposition texts and how they are used to persuade people.

We have started to think about sustainability and how we can reduce our impact on the world.

Leave a comment to say one thing you learned this week and one thing you enjoyed.

Mrs Brown

We have had a great first week back.

We have been looking at division and measure in maths.

We have been learning about exposition texts and how they are used to persuade people.

We have started to think about sustainability and how we can reduce our impact on the world.

Leave a comment to say one thing you learned this week and one thing you enjoyed.

Mrs Brown, Mrs Smith and Mrs Harrison

This week primary 1 have been building words with en in them, we came up with lots of words like hen, pen, men, then, when, end, send and friend.

Primary 1 and P2/1 continued with their RSPB wild challenge today by setting up their compost bin. We hope to make rich compost to put on the plants we are going to grow  in the school garden. We added some soil, worms, apples cores and  some veggie peelings into the compost bin to get us started. We spoke to the dinner ladies who are going to give us vegetable peelings from the school lunches to add to the bin.