We have been busy this week learning more about Scotland. We were looking at a map of Scotland to see where Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Livingston and Bathgate are. We have also been learning some Scots words. We read some stories and poems with Scots words including the Gruffalo in Scots. We have now created our own Scots dictionary. Some of the words we have in it are ‘breeks’ which means trousers and ‘muckle’ which means big.

We have also been working hard in out writing. We were writing a story about Katie Morag. We had to have a clear beginning, middle and end in our story. We found this quite tricky at first and we are going to keep working on our story writing this term.

We have been learning about a famous Scottish artist called Charles Rennie Mackintosh. We liked his designs and shapes he used, but some of us did not like the colours he used in his artwork. We creaated our own art pieces in his style. I think you will agree that they look fantastic!

Class awards:

Class dojo: Mya

Pupil of the Week: Gemma for practising hard to learn her Scottish poem

MVP: Rachael

Drama award: Mya

Table of the Week: Bright Sparks (Rachael, Cameron, Aaron, Cameron, Grace and Kaitlin)

Reminder: Our class assembly is on the 24th of January/ Parents/carers are welcome to come along at 9.45 and there will be refreshements after the assembly.

See you all next week!