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Jessie and her mam organised a trip to her Granny’s garden to tie in with our play projects. We had a WONDERFUL morning. Elizabeth and Amanda took them on a tour of the hidden gem of a garden, we got to see the hens, do some planting in the polycrub (and take them home) and then a lovely surprise of an ice lolly! We had the best morning! Thank you so much for having us… we had a lovely day!

 

When the sun is shining… what better way to enjoy it than move the classroom outside!? We love an outdoor classroom! Lots of fun was had by all!

Every week we have a few of the bairns heading to the polycrub and they (and staff) are enjoying it.

P.1-2 have been singing some songs about the sea and we have been following the  Sun, Sea and Song BBC Schools Radio programme where each week we learn a new song about the sea.

Here is a link to the songs: Primary Music KS1: Sun, sea and song! – BBC Teach – 

As well as learning a song, each week we have also done some related musical activities and listened to a piece of music, and the P.1-2 children are getting so good at identifying orchestral instruments just by listening to the music and recognising the sounds of the various instruments!

Here are P.1 and 2 singing and clapping a rhythms for ‘A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea’;

We had a lovely morning visiting Isla’s family farm where we saw lambs, calves, tractors (getting to sit in one) and got a chance to see how wool comes from sheep and ends up knitted. We had a fantastic morning! Thanks to Isla and Isla’s mam for organising it and to Sheila, Douglas and Jamie for having us.

 

We have had great fun trying some simple orienteering tasks in PE.  Orienteering is an activity that requires you to follow a map to navigate your way around a course in the shortest possible time.  We have learnt how to follow a map, what a key is and how to use it, keep the map orientated to the group, what a control is and how we use them, work with others and many other useful things that help us to navigate around an orienteering course.

Imagine you’re in a magical land called Scotland where farmers grow delicious foods! Some farmers plant seeds in the ground to grow golden fields of wheat for yummy bread. Others take care of fluffy cows and get fresh milk to make tasty cheese! Can you guess what other kinds of food these special farmers might have in their land?

Mrs Bannister had the bairns baking their own bread today… and it was delicious. The bairns really enjoyed helping make bread and seeing how it was made. A massive thank you to Mrs Bannister for doing this with the bairns!

We have loved the Titanic theme for the play projects this week and the bairns were very creative, but at school and home!!

We have started visiting the Polycrub this week and what a treat! The bairns got stuck right in with a mixture of digging, planting and watering the seeds. Each bairn will get to go for a visit over the next couple of weeks.

Have you ever heard of a brave explorer named Christopher Columbus, who sailed across the big ocean and discovered new lands? Or how about a kind woman named Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat on the bus and helped make things fair for everyone? Can you think of other amazing people from long ago and the cool things they did?

Miss Baronet started our week with a super lesson on Neil Armstrong and Amelia Earhart and what an amazing conversation the bairns had! We learnt lots of new things and enjoyed the interactive activities. We then looked at Rosa Parks and did a small activity where Miss Hunter was only going to take the bairns with blue eyes on a holiday… that didn’t go down very well! A super (mature) discussion was had and the importance of what Rosa Parks did. A really enjoyable big question this week! And thanks to all the parents who got involved with sending in brilliant books – we loved looking at them!