Thank you for all the very generous gifts and cards  this week. It has been a lovely year!

We have had a great final week. We have been shadowing the UKLA picturebooks awards. We read six books and our favourite was Pip and Egg, closely followed by Barbara throws a wobbler.

Also this week we were very excited on Monday when the Digital Ambassadors came to do some coding with us.

Today we had great fun building a bug hotel for our final task in the RSPB Wild Challenge. We walked around the school collecting items for the bugs before carefully arranging them.

Here are a few photos from our week. Have a lovely summer and we look forward to seeing everyone in August.

We’ve had a very busy few weeks in P1b.

We’re continuing with our minibeast topic. We have been looking at the life cycle of a butterfly and were very excited with our updates from Miss Finlayson’s class about their hungry caterpillars who turned into beautiful butterflies. We made some butterflies for our gallery wall, mixing paint to create our own unique colours and then adding symmetrical spots.

In literacy we’ve now finished our double sounds and will spend the new few weeks consolidating and working on word and sentence building.

In numeracy we’ve started looking at number words to twenty. We’re doing a great job. We have been reading and writing them using base tens, cuisenaire roads and lollipop sticks.

We’ve also started reading Peter Rabbit and related stories. We’re also talking about how we need to look after our garden and how Peter Rabbit and his friends would not be welcome!!

Here are some photos we have chosen to share of our learning:

We had a great day last Thursday to celebrate the Jubilee. Thank you to all the parents who came in the morning to join in our learning.

In the afternoon we had a Jubilee party in the playground. We had bubbles and a fruit snack.

This week we were learning  about snails. We learnt lots of interesting facts, then we went on a snail hunt but oh dear we didn’t find any snails only lots of slugs! We had great fun with our magnifying glasses! 🔍

P1a have been continuing to learn their double sounds. Over the last three weeks we have been focussing on oi, ng and ar! We spend time word building with our new sound and identifying the sound in different words. We continue to share stories and do different art activities around each sound for example we had great fun with Oi Frog!

P1 have been learning about money in maths. We have been looking at the different coins and talking about their value, shape, colour and size. We have been using the coins to make different amounts within 20p. We have made shopping lists and played at shops.

Primary 1a have been enjoying sharing the stories of Peter Rabbit and his many friends. We worked very hard to create paintings of Peter in Mr MaGregors garden and then we wrote about them.

This morning, to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Primary  1 took part in a royal drawalong with Nick Sharratt, one of our favourite authors. P1a did the online lesson in the library, it was great fun! Nick read us sections from his book The Cat and the King, then he taught us how to draw some of the characters from the book. We drew a cat, a king, an angry dragon and a unicorn.

The children have had a great week learning about bees and did a great job working together to help write today’s blog:

Today is World Bee Day. Bees spread pollen and help flowers and plants to grow. They even help make some of our food. A lot of bees have disappeared in the UK because people are building houses and destroying their habitats.

In P1b we have been talking about what we can do to help the bees:

🐝 We can leave the weeds like dandelions as these provide food for the bees.

🐝 Plant lots of flowers for the bees.

🐝 Build a bee paradise. Today we have been designing our own bug hotel. Stay tuned for more information!

This week in Primary 1 we started the Daily Mile. The two classes do a short lap of the playground and then a lap of the whole school. It’s great fun! We’ve set ourselves the challenge of running every day until the end of the month.

Also this week we learned the ‘oi’ sound. We did an experiment with oil, dropping in some coloured water to see if they mixed. We’ve also enjoyed reading the Oi stories.

We read lots of stories in P1 but we did enjoy hearing the bell and all stopping to read for six minutes for ‘Keep the heid and read’ on Wednesday.

On Thursday we did some great work on the iPads. In SketchesSchool we drew a picture of a cat on a mat wearing a hat! We used different pens and colours to do our drawing and then labelled it. 

We used the iPads again for our numeracy lesson, building a number line with the numicon, taking a photograph of it and then using the mark up tools to write our numbers to 20.

Here are some pictures we’ve chosen to share this week: