Lanterns of Love. For our Big Question this week, we have been looking at the key values of love and compassion as seen in the Nativity story. After doing a character study of key people in the story, we made Lanterns of Love. We finished off our Big Question work by watching ‘Nativity’ (and P3/4 joined us too.)

Winter Wonderland.  For one of our This or That tasks this week, we had to research different groups of people who live in Winter Wonderlands. The children worked in groups to research and prepare something to share to teach the class about their given group. It was super to see all the creativity and fun throughout each presentation.

Game Time. On Thursday, Primary 3 joined us for some game fun. We played lots of different games and it was lovely to see all the interactions between everyone.

Christmas Sing-a-long. Trevor led the whole school in a Christmas sing song which was enjoyed by all.

The Last Day. We had a super last day of Big Play in the morning,  followed by a Christmas assembly at the United Free church and then finished the day with a movie.

Merry Christmas from P5/6/7! 

Welcome to our blog this week. Its me, Esther, who will be telling you all about a very Christmassy week in P5/6/7.

The 67th Day of School. On Monday, it was the 67th day of school so we celebrated it with 6-7 related tasks. We had maths, literacy and art activities and a very chilled afternoon after a busy morning of rehearsals.

Bethlehem Bake Off. At the Bethlehem Bake off, everyone worked really hard to present the play. Everyone did really well playing the piano, fiddle or the accordion too. We all enjoyed the performances and I hoped you enjoyed them too.

A Visit from the Polytunnel. Bev came in to visit us and she hid 9 angels around the room and we had to try and find them. Each angel had a letter to spell out something and the word was Bethlehem. After that, she told the Christmas story and then we got a spot the difference and a word search to do based on Bethlehem.

The Aa Fired Up Experience. As a result of all our amazing enterprise work, Miss Mann and Mrs A organised an ‘Aa Fired Up’ experience for both classes. We designed a tile with anything we wanted and then painted them. We also got to have a cake, a drink and a squishy cube. It was a nice surprise.

Christmas Lunch. The P7 pupils got to help set up the tables for lunch and then helped to serve the lunches. It was delicious and we all got to pull crackers too.

Christmas Party. We had a super afternoon playing games, eating snacks and dancing. Everyone loved it!

Thanks for reading my blog this week.

From Esther 😊

Hi, I’m Jess and it is my week to write the blog. Thank you for reading it.

Maths – Prodigy.  We had 15 extra minutes of Prodigy because of Naughty or Nice. Every morning, Mrs Adamson spins the Advent wheel of names and if it is you that it lands on, then you pick a slip of paper. Get a green slip of paper with writing, that means you got a Nice, but if it was red… you got a Naughty! For example, if you got a Naughty you would have to tidy the kindles for a week, or if you got a Nice you could choose a game to play!

Christmas Concert Practice. We have moved the tables so we have a mini stage to rehearse in our classroom. We have also started making and collecting props for our Bethlehem Bake-Off. Cheryl and Eilidh Smith is our prompts, the people to tell us our lines when we forget them (which we hope won’t happen).

This or That. This week, our Animal Adventures was all about birds. For Sustainable Squad, our SDG (sustainable development goal) is responsible consumption and production, so we had to make something creative out of a plastic bottle. Here are some of our finished projects.

Enterprise Shopping Night. Here are some photos of our stalls from the Shopping Night. Thanks to everyone who came along. We raised a lot of money because of everyone who bought our products.

Thank you for reading the blog. I hope you enjoyed it xx

Hello! It’s Cheryl and Freya and this week we have the POWER of the blog!

Big Question – Enterprise and Business. This week has been a very busy week for us as we have been very focused on finishing off all of our products since our Christmas Shopping night is on Friday. We have also been designing and setting up our stall which was a lot of fun.

Maths – Money. For maths this week, some of it has been linked in with our Enterprise project. In our groups, we looked at costings of our products with Mrs A and then worked out how much we would need to sell things for. Cheryl also checked off all orders to make sure our accounts were in order. We also did an activity with P4/5 to think about how to fairly price our items. We had to think about how much time and effort went into our products as well as the cost of materials.

Literacy – Plays.  This week we have been continuing to do plays during reading time for us to be practicing for our Christmas concert. For group plays, Mrs A pulls out a group of people and we choose different roles for a play in a book, so we can practice characterisation, fluency and expression. We all love this and fight over who gets to take part. We have also been doing read throughs of the Christmas Concert too which we’re really enjoying.

This or That.  For this or that this week we have been researching Amphibians and we worked with Campbell and Rebekah to make and run a class quiz all about frogs. For the other one, we did the Sustainable Development Goal  11. We had to print off a map and decorate it with somewhere you wanted more stuff at and draw more stuff that you wanted like a park, pool, your friends houses. It was all about what we would do to improve the local area.

Speedy Skills. To practice our Speedy Skills this week, we got to play Blooket. We played a few games to work on our times tables, fractions and decimals. We LOVED it!

From Cheryl and Freya.💖✌️👌❤️😂

Hello everyone and welcome to the blog for P5/6/7. I’m Campbell and I’m Joe and we will be sharing some of the things we have been doing this week and last week in our class.

Writing. Last week we worked in groups to write a rap. We started by watching the ‘Michael Rosen Rap’ on Youtube (you should look it up as it is very funny). We all chose different topics to write our raps on but we had to make sure they had a beat, rhythm and rhyme. We then performed our raps to the class. They were very funny and everyone did an excellent job.

This week, we have been writing stories using the 5-part plan. We could write our story about anything linked to Ancient Greece. Here are some of the stories below.

This or That. Here are a selection of photos of things that people have done for ‘This or That’ over the last two weeks.

Enterprise and Business. Last week, we all made up our companies for the sale on the 28th of November. We made the company logos on Canva and we have nearly finished our companies stuff that we are going to sell. We thought of ideas last term with P4/5. We have worked really hard all week on the different stalls and even been helping out other groups.

Gymnastics. For PE, we are currently doing gymnastics and have been working on the different pieces of equipment. We have got to try out the A-frame, the high box, the big climbing frame, springboards, benches and more. It has been lots of fun and the whole class have enjoyed it!

Hi, I’m Freya and I am the ruler of the blog this week. Read on to find out some of the exciting things we’ve been doing this week.

Speedy Skills. In maths, we have been working on our different ‘Speedy Skills’. We did a counting challenge and we have discovered a new game called ‘Daily 10’. You have to choose a time and pick a topic and try to answer the questions as fast as you can. It is lots of fun.

Writing  – Ancient Greece.  In writing, we have been each focusing on Ancient Greece as our writing topic. We all wrote about different Ancient Greek gods or goddesses, created fact files about mythical creatures of our choice and then wrote reports on Ancient Greek celebrations and festivals.

This or That. This week, we had two tasks. Our Sustainable Squad task was to make a mind map about our dream jobs. The Animal Adventurers task was all about fish. You could do anything you wanted in a creative and engaging way. See below for some of the completed tasks this week.

Class visitors. On Friday morning, P4-7 enjoyed having a few visitors to help us on our business project for the Christmas Craft fair. We learned about different parts of a business and how to run a successful business. We even got to take part in a fun competition. Thanks to Brian and Kristina for coming in to see us.

Castle fort building. On Friday we had a great afternoon building the best castle forts ever! We watched a short film and enjoyed time in our cosy castle table forts. Some people brought in dressing gowns, onesies, pillows, blankets and all that cosy stuff. It was a fun way to finish off our topic.

Thanks for reading the blog this week. I hope you haven’t fallen asleep and managed to read to the end.

Bye 👍😊✌️💖😎

Hello and welcome to this week’s blog. I’m Magnus and I’ll be sharing about what we’ve been doing.

Resilience. On Wednesday the class were learning about resilience. I interviewed the class to find out about what they had learned.

Magnus: What can you tell me about resilience?

Megan: It is when something is hard and you don’t give up.

Ava T: You are able to stand up for yourself and trust in your abilities.

Rebekah: You just keep trying even if you feel it is hard.

Eilidh S: You can use the ‘Power Pose’ to help you feel powerful and gives you a boost of confidence.

Big Question. For our Big Question this week, we’ve been learning about life in Scottish Castles. Each group had to learn about different stuff and there were 7 groups. The groups were learning about transport, food, hobbies, clothing, houses, health care and jobs. Each group set up a stall in the ‘Museum of Scottish Castle Life’ and then P1/2 and P3/4 came in to learn from us. It was fun and the small kids all seemed happy.

Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh Visit. On Friday afternoon, P5-7 had a workshop with Eve from the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh all about Scottish roots. We learned about the names of Scottish plants, stories behind them, tasted some different plants, created ‘Frankenstein’ plants and also thought about plants that held memories for us. We all had a super time and enjoyed learning about plants in a different way.

Thank you for reading my blog this week.

Hello my name is Megan and I am going to tell you what we did this week in P5/6/7.

Monday: We played race to 50. How to play is that we got two spinners and one had numbers to ten and the other had a + or a – and you spun it. For example I might spin a 4 and a – so i got -4 for my score. It was lots of fun.

Tuesday: in music with Mrs. Pottinger we were playing the Weller man on the keyboards,  ukuleles, and xylophones and we also helped the P3/4s learn how to use Canva and we made cool comic strips.

Wednesday: We had art and did cat pattern pictures. We also played ‘The case of the Missing Sceptre’ and it was like a real life Cluedo but Scottish castle style. We did it for our big question and we did writing about saving the marshmallows too.

Thursday: In the afternoon we played the game that we did on Wednesday again and it was really fun. In P.E we did rugby and we have been doing it for a couple of weeks and some people have really enjoyed it.

Friday: We had a big play in the morning and we got to watch a film and it was The Sword in the Stone. All the P6s did our last playleaders training and we all had so much fun. We did games like jungle on fire and farmer farmer.

Thanks to everyone who supported the bookshelf at Tesco during September. We raised £102.50 for the school.  Tesco community champion Derry (and also Mrs A’s dad) came in to present us with a cheque. A big thanks to Mrs Bannister and the P5s from our class for sorting the books to put up to Tesco.

Thanks for reading my blog. Have a lovely October holidays and if you are going away have a nice time

Megan 😊

Hi my name is Rebekah and I am writing the blog for P5,6,7.

Maths – Which one doesn’t belong? In maths this week both of the group have mostly been doing subtraction. Each week we do different activities for flashback focus. This week we played ‘Which one doesn’t belong?’ It is a game that you have to chose a reason for one of the numbers being the odd one out. There were different reasons from people in the class and no wrong answers. It was cool to hear other people’s ideas. Here are some example of ‘Which one doesn’t belong?’

Big Question – Scottish Castles. We did all about different Scottish castles and we were to design a mini-book with our group which  Mrs. A put us into.  In our books we had to write (by hand) facts with reasons why the castle was important to Scotland and famous figures who were associated with the castles.

Writing – 100 club! Our theme for this week was ‘Pigeon Impossible’. We had to try and  involve long, medium and short sentences in our writing. We did research and created posters about different types of pigeon. We were still trying to get 100%. We also wrote pigeon adventure stories and created Super Spy Profiles about different animals.  We managed to get 100% for our Spy Profiles.

Sustainable Squad. In sustainable squad this week, the whole class had to make a machine that cleans water and filters water. We had to make it out of junk modeling or resources in the classroom.  When we did our sustainable squad most of us did it in groups. Here is some things that we did!⬇️

Thank you for reading the blog.

I hope you enjoyed it, bye! ❤️

Hi world! I’m Anthea B. Here are some things we have been doing this week in primary 5/6/7.

Maths Week Scotland.  This week is Maths Week Scotland which means we celebrate maths. We have played some games like BEWARE and RACE TO 30 to celebrate maths. We also have a Sumdog competition were we have to answer sums to get higher up the leaderboard within the whole of Scotland. The class with the highest score at the end of the week gets a prize.

Homework Presentations. On Monday we presented our homework projects about people In The Arts. People have been doing things about Peppa Pig, Ava Max, Maggie Adamson, Taylor Swift, Bruce Peebles, Chris Pratt, Ella Bright, Ariana Grande, Sir David Attenborough and Benson Boone. They were all very interesting.

Big Question. We have been learning about Scottish castles and key Scottish figures. On Wednesday we worked in groups of 2 or 3 to research famous people who lived back in that time like Mary Queen of Scots, Saint Margaret and William Wallace. There were presentations, plays, puppet shows, models and detailed pieces of artwork created.

Writing poetry. Last, we have written some poetry about the mini movie, Something Fishy. We wrote ‘Something Fishy’ adventures and acrostic poems. See below for the selection of poems that were written.

I hope you enjoyed it 🙂 🙂 Bye!