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p234 try golf at our morning sports club. Mrs Robertson visits Foula primary. Creativity Getting crafty p7 learned knife skills making a delicious soup and learning how to do first aid for minor cuts and bruises. The p45 bairns worked collaboratively to create an informative PowerPoint to share at the harvest assembly. We also made our cauliflower cards this week which all turned out brilliant.

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This week we have had lots of fun completing our  shape hunt.  This helped us to revise 2D shapes.   we have also been busy completing different Lego challenges.  

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This week we have been celebrating numeracy week.  We used our outdoor space to practice our measuring and estimation skills.  We measured how high some of our wildlife area trees are.  We had to make an estimate of the height in metres and use a bucket of water to find the reflection.  We then used a formula to calculate the height.  It was fun but tricky to find the reflection but gave us lots of practice estimating in metres.

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After snack today we all headed up to the garden for an explore and play.  The children really enjoyed spending some of the time with the older children in the school, exploring around the garden.  The grassy hill was a favourite sport with the children sliding down again and again. Some of the children found quieter spots in the garden to make some secret dents with lots of imaginative play. There was also some great problem solving going on as the children tried to work out how they could get up on to the swing without an adults help.  The…

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🌟 Primary 3/4 Weekly Round-Up – Week Six ✏️ Literacy & Spelling The Magic Dragon delivered The Gingerbread Man, which led to some fantastic literacy activities. We wrote instructions for catching the gingerbread man and explored how to persuade our audience around the question: “Should the Gingerbread Man have run away?” This created some brilliant debate and discussion, with children learning how to share their opinions respectfully and listen to different viewpoints. We also watched a video of gingerbread men invading our classroom, which caused great excitement and sparked imaginative ideas for our writing. This also sparked great enthusiasm for

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Mud glorious Mud! (Monday) After the rainy weekend the bairns got stuck in to the muddy hole in the nursery garden! All types of messy play offer a wealth of benefits for young children’s development, including sensory stimulation, fine motor skill development, creativity, cognitive growth, language development, emotional regulation, social skills, self-confidence, and a deeper connection to the natural world. I have added a link below that describes more of the benefits and gives some ideas and activities you may like to try out at home with mud! https://couopencities.blob.core.windows.net/couwebsitearchive/community%20and%20culture/Events/Mud-Play-Benefits-and-Activities.pdf Creativity and imagination in all areas of the setting (Mon –

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