2025 - 2026

Today the P1-7s performed at the music festival singing ‘Da Wiggly Worm Sang’ by Christian Tait. The class did a fantastic job. Well done!
The P4-7 also performed an instrumental, ‘What’s In the Bag’.

We have been learning about the meta-skills for the last couple of weeks. We learned about what these skills look like and considered when we might use them. We looked at the character names given to each skill by Skills Development Scotland.

Today, the pupils were all challenged to make a maze using a paper plate and some straws. Afterwards, they had a chance to try out other mazes. Following on from this, they considered which of the meta-skills had been used.

The skills used included:

• Adapting – having to try out different ways of making the mazes and changing as they went along.
• Creativity – considering what they wanted their maze to look like and how to make this happen.
• Communicating – listening to the ideas of others and helping each other.

Today we have had some paired reading and Show and Tell of our favourite book!

The class were learning about Viking food and drinks so had a go at baking some bread that may have been eaten in the past. The verdict was positive with many enjoying it!

Mari and Ellie visited us to share what life was like for the Vikings. They brought with them some replica items and filled us full of wonderful Viking facts! Here are some photos from the session with P1-P3.

We have been coming up with our own Viking names. We have some fierce faces to match our names!

This week we learned about Viking longhouses. We discussed the different features that these may have had and then created our own. Some pupils decided to work in a group and some decided to work individually for this. Before they started to build, they planned out their design.

We are preparing for Up Helly Aa by learning some Shetland dances. The children are also learning about Vikings in the past and built their own longships through junk modelling and following instructions for a cut and stick activity.