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.

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:

We’ve had a fun few days in P1b.

We have new class pets – six stick insects! We had great fun trying to spot them. We have spoken about how we look after them. They need food and water and a clean tank. On Thursday we did black pen pictures and did a brilliant job writing a few sentences about them.

We’re continuing to look at worms. Last week we went on another worm hunt. We poured water on the ground and quietly waited for the worms to poke their heads up! This week we were learning about worms working had in our compost bin. We spoke about what foods we can put in our compost bin and then had a look and a smell!

In numeracy we have now moved onto numbers to 20. We are great at counting forwards and backwards and looking at numbers before, after and in between.

Our highlights this week have been:

• Looking in the compost bin
• Playtime – inside and outside
• When we were drawing the stick insects
• Doing the dot to dot
• PE – we are doing athletics

We’ve had a quieter week in P1b. It was lovely to see some children back today and we hope to see everyone back next week. As usual, the children have helped to write the blog this week.

Today we have had a chat about Earth Day. We read stories and talked about what we can do to look after our planet. We could reuse plastic, pick up litter, save water, look after the animals and plant more trees!

We went on a worm hunt. We learned about the different parts of a worm. We looked at the colours and the segments on the worm.

We’ve  been doing lots of planting. We planted potatoes and today planted sunflowers.

We learned the ‘er’ sound and had fun being reading detectives and looking for lots of ‘er’ words like water, paper, tiger, diver, driver, teacher, hammer, flower…

We’ve had lots of fun taking our learning outside.

Have a lovely weekend and we will see on you on Monday.

We’ve had a brilliant and very busy final week. A huge thank you to all the parents who accompanied us on Tuesday to Peebles CAN. We had a great time and picked up lots of tips for our own garden!

Here are the children’s highlights of what we’ve been up to this week:

We went gardening to Peebles CAN Garden. We walked along the river and crossed Priorsford Bridge. We walked past the new play park. We had some circle time and we looked for seeds. We followed a fairy trail and dug trenches for potatoes. We learned how to plant onion bulbs – they should be two hands apart!

We worked with the P7s and made an Easter egg with a surprise it in. We drew an Easter picture on their iPad and read stories.

We made flowers with plasticine.

Today we played a listening game with Easter eggs and made bunny cards.

We’ve been learning about the different parts of the body.

Here are some pictures we’ve chosen to share. Have a wonderful Easter break 🐣

What a lovely week we’ve had. We’ve made the most of the sunshine and have taken our learning outside! Here are our highlights:

Doing numbers outside. We were jumping along a number line.

We’ve been looking for lots of signs of spring – some trees now have blossom!

We did PE outside in the MUGA

We’ve been talking about being kind

We learned the oa sound. We made boats and took the water tray outside to see if it they would float. We also read a story about a goat in a coat and did a black pen picture and some writing.

We liked building bridges and playing with the trains.

Here are some pictures from this week:

In Health and Wellbeing we are starting to look at the topics ‘My body’ and ‘My body belongs to me’.

This is part of Relationships,  Sexual Health and Parenthood (RSHP) education and we will use the recommended national resource which can be found here – https://rshp.scot/early-level/

We also attach the letter and leaflet forwarded to parents last month which explains a little more about our approach.

RSHP_Parent_letter_11-02-22

Leaflet – Early Level.updated

If you have any questions please either email or catch us at the end of the school day.

Mrs McGilp and Mrs Collins