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Pond Maintenance

September 8, 2025 Mrs Henderson Leave a comment

Primary 7s have been busy clearing out the pond in our school nature garden. When we first arrived, we weren’t sure if there was a pond in there – it was so overgrown!

Everyone got straight to work. It wasn’t long before we began to see lots of frogs appearing to take a look at what we were up to.

Some pupils are very keen to get right in the middle of the action. We are wondering if we should try to measure how much water comes out of their wellies each week, when it is time to head back to class!

We are enjoying our pond visits and finding out how we can improve this area, so that the frogs continue to thrive and return year after year. Some special plants and bugs have been kindly donated, to help breathe new life into our pond.

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Planting in the polycrub

September 28, 2022 User deactivated Leave a comment

A few weeks ago the P7s tidied up the polycrub and today, while the P7s were on their first John Muir day, the P6s worked really hard to carry the new topsoil in and replant the apple trees and plant a raised bed of tatties. Ms Scanlan was so impressed at how hard they worked. What a great job they all did, well done!

Term 3

February 8, 2022 User deactivated Leave a comment

This term we have been learning about Sound, doing lots of investigations and practical science and making instruments. Today we will be looking at all the amazing and creative musical instruments that have been made. Looking forward to hearing them all.
Last Friday we did the RSPB Schools Birdwatch, we had made fat balls and put birdseed out for several weeks. We didn’t see many species – mostly House Sparrows and Starlings, but all the P6/7s were fantastic at using the binoculars and identifying the species. They had also made superb identification posters about all our most common birds.
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The All Stars amazing afternoon

June 24, 2021 User deactivated Leave a comment

We were treated to another amazing afternoon of fun, which started with an excellent treasure hunt, fantastic bespoke caps and hot chocolate and marshmallows by the fire pit. Thank you so much to everyone involved!

Week 1

April 15, 2021 User deactivated Leave a comment

It has been so lovely to see everyone back for the start of Term 4. We have been really lucky with the weather, so we have been able to have outdoor learning of some sort each day.

We have started our map skills project and have learnt to use scale, read length, use coordinates and directions and bearings.

On Wednesday we started our drama lessons with Izzy Swanson, which was really good fun.

We have been out to the pond area to check on the frogs and tadpoles and went back this afternoon with pond nets. We caught lots of tadpoles, but the exciting catches were several big diving beetles, water boatmen and a huge freshwater shrimp. We’ll go back in a few weeks to see how much it has changed.

End of Week 6

September 18, 2020 User deactivated Leave a comment

What a lovely end to a busy week.

As a recognition of good behaviour , we had planned to play hide and seek in the forest. We couldn’t have had better weather for it, or more fun. Ms Scanlan managed to catch everyone, except for Koll. It wasn’t as easy as we thought, some of the P7s are excellent at hiding!

Just before that we planted a few more trees and we saw lots more frogs again. The pond has filled up with water from all the recent rain.

This week to link with our biodiversity life cycles topic, we made a display in French of the Hungry caterpillar – ‘La chenille qui fait des trous’. Ms Scanlan was very impressed by all the French accents and the lovely drawings.

Have a good weekend everyone.

Week 6

September 17, 2020 User deactivated Leave a comment

Primary 7 have been very busy in the last few weeks continuing their topic about Biodiversity .

They have all been finding out about different British moths and butterflies and doing lots of research into their life cycles.

We have also been out planting a few more trees and are planning to plant some more tomorrow. So PLEASE BRING YOUR WELLIES!

First full week back

August 21, 2020 User deactivated Leave a comment

What a lovely first full week back. It has been great to see everyone again and we have done so much this week and had lots of fun.

After seeing all the frogs around the pond we have been drawing / making and talking about animals in French. This afternoon we had a look at all the tree species and have been classifying and identifying them all for our Biodiversity topic.

Classification chart made by Ellie and Kayla

Classifying Plants

May 15, 2018 User deactivated Leave a comment

As part of our Plants study we spent time with Mr Rose learning about the classification of plants. We were shown how to use a classification key and given a variety of plants to observe carefully and identify.