Some of the things we enjoyed in school this week are:

Tiana – We were writing about our Easter holidays.

Evie – We have been drawing daffodils with oil pastels.

Rheagan – I enjoyed reading ‘Charlie and Chocolate Factory.’

Grace M – We read the ‘Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’ and this is going to be our new topic.

Orlaith – I enjoyed using the numberlines in maths.

Grace Q – I enjoyed looking at odd/even numbers.

Sara – We have been earning class Dojo points. We have to sit nicely and listen to get points.

Keira – I enjoyed playing dominoes with the tricky words.

Kayden – I enjoyed reading ‘Charlie and Chocolate Factory.’

Alysheeya – We have been writing new targets for our review jotters.

Well done to our top Dojo champions this week – Scott, Orlaith, Grace M and Evie!

A short but busy week!

When we came back from Easter Break, we finally got to see how our mummification went! We mummified apples and this is what they look like now. You can compare them with the slice that was not

mummified. If it’s not mummified it is pretty disgusting!

I literacy, we wrote a recount about what we did in the holidays. Some of us were very busy and others took the time to relax.

In maths, we have been learning how to tell the time and we had “Tell the Time” clock races outside. We have also been learning about multiplication and played games outside to match the facts to the questions. Here are some pictures.

In other news, Ruby Anne was the P3 Egg Competition winner – well done Ruby!

We have a busy week back after the holiday.

This week in writing we have been reflecting on our achievements this year and have been writing our own reports. We had to think about or strengths and next steps. We are going to edit these and write them in our transition jotter for high school.

In maths this week we have been learning about measuring length and converting units of measurement. We took part in a ‘measurehunt’ where we had to measure different items around the school and convert the measurements.

We also went outside for maths this week and looked around the playground to see the different opportunities for maths. We had to complete a maths trail asking different maths questions using the environment. For example, we had to estimate the distance from the front gate to the office door in metres and we had to calculate the fraction of red cars in the car park. We are going to create our own maths trails for our P1 buddies.

Most of us are off to Oban next week so we will keep you updated daily about how we are getting on. Have a good weekend!

The pupils in P6B returned to school this week feeling refreshed and ready to learn. It’s been a quick and enjoyable week with lots of learning packed in. In beginning the new term, we have started to explore some new learning topics and areas.

In maths this term, we will be learning about shape, position and movement. This week, we begun by exploring coordinate grids, identifying the y/x axis, number lines and, finally, marking and naming coordinates on the grid. We worked in pairs and used coordinates to create and solve codes in the context of a ‘Murder Mystery’ which we all enjoyed. Next week, we will draw and create our own grids.

Our topic this term will be ‘The Human Body‘ and we began by exploring what we already know and would like to know about the human body. Lots of facts, knowledge and ideas fr learning were discussed and shared. We are really looking forward to this topic this term.

I know that chromosomes are cells which help to create your features – Fiona 

The tongue is the only muscle in your body which is attached at one end – Luca

Your kidney is the size of a mobile phone – Jamie

I’d like to learn about the names of all different parts of the brain and what they do – Jack 

We were all delighted to be told that Jamie had won the Eggstravaganza competition for P6. Jamie had made a fantastic effort to design an egg which he named ‘Captain Egghead‘. It was a very creative and thoughtful design which we were all impressed with. Well done, Jamie!

Our first’ Star Writer of the Week‘ for this term is Callum who wrote an interesting story, ‘The Cottage‘. Callum used adjectives to add description to his story and took care to spell his words correctly. He had clear organisation with a beginning, middle and end to his story, meeting all his targets. Well done, Callum!

This week we were learning about speech marks. We learned how to use them by thinking of them as a jam sandwich!The bread is the speech marks and the butter on each slice of bread represents the capital letter and ending punctuation, while the jam was what was actually said. This analogy made it a little easier to understand!
For outdoor P.E we were learning how to leapfrog. Most of us got how to do it after a few tries. We had to be careful that we didn’t hurt the frog whilst leaping.
For literacy, we have been writing a fictional story based on teleporting to Ancient Egypt. It was great fun writing about it and we have now created books. They are absolutely fantastic! We only completed them today so next term we will have a chance to share our books and read each other’s stories.
We learned about the importance of Holy week and also looked at what Easter is. We know that Holy week leads up to Easter starting with Palm Sunday. Then Spy Wednesday followed by the Last Supper, Good Friday and then Easter Sunday.
As most of us are in the Golden Club, we went out for the Easter Egg hunt as our treat. What a great way to finish the week.
We hope you have a great Easter Break!

We have had a lovely week to end this term off this week. We have been learning about Stirling Castle in preparation for our school trip. We learned some really interesting facts. Did you know that the world’s oldest football was found in the palace of Stirling castle? Or that Scotland’s first fireworks were set off from Stirling Castle? We also found out that it took 4 years to build and that there was no space for it so they had to build it on top of other buildings.

We have also been learning about the Easter story, how Jesus died and rose again. We then sequenced the story in the correct order. We also designed some lovely Easter cards to give to our friends and family.

P2B also loved learning about Autism on Thursday and we dressed in blue to raise awareness. We were given a task to design a big letter A for autism in any way we wanted. We decided to draw around our own hands and decorate them in blue pen and pencil. Once everyone completed theirs we stuck them all together in a huge A shape.

Finally lots of children have been working hard on their behaviour this term and achieved step 5. They all enjoyed a fantastic Easter egg hunt as their Golden Club treat today. Happy Easter everyone!

As we end a busy term we have been thinking about everything we have learnt and the things we have been challenged by in class.
Dani – I enjoyed learning about the Viking Gods
Katie – I enjoyed making the Viking shields
Callum – I liked learning about the Viking longhouses
Louie – I have enjoyed making my Viking shield
Elliot – I enjoyed making and eating the garden of Gethsemane biscuit
Jack – I enjoyed learning about Autism yesterday
Lucy – I enjoyed making a Viking shield
Guy – I liked making the Autism ‘a’
Ela – I enjoyed learning the bus stop way to complete division sums
Charlotte – I was challenged by the quickfire tables competition
Isaac – I was challenged by writing in the Furthark, Viking language
Hayley – I enjoyed doing the times tables
Hope – I enjoyed the challenge of the hard times tables in maths
Emily – I enjoyed making the Viking shields
Jay – I really, really enjoyed making the Viking shields
Luke – I was challenged by the quickfire times table challenge
Emma – I was challenged by the code breaker in the Viking runes
Maisey – I have been challenged by writing about Viking burials
Rayen – I have enjoyed having new friends at the school
Jason – I was challenged by writing in Viking language
Ben – I was challenged when we used the compasses in Maths
Rose – I enjoyed making the Viking runes
Nathan – I was challenged learning my lines for the assembly
Jaime – Lee – I have been challenged by writing Viking reports

On Thursday we celebrated World Autism Day. We thought about what we know about autism. We watched a video clip which helped us to understand autism and how like can be for people who are autistic. We think it helped us to understand a little more about Autism and how it can affect people’s lives. We made ‘A’s for autism which are all different, much like all of us.

Table of the week with 520 points

Pupil of the week – Emma for being a kind and supportive friend
Class achievements
Nathan was awarded a yellow belt at Taekwando
Article 28 – the right to an education