This week we have been busy practising our songs for the Easter Service on Friday.  We hope to see you there.  We have been busy making our Easter baskets and we hope that the Easter Bunny visits us with a nice surprise.  We watched the Easter story and sequenced our pictures to make an Easter flip book.

Today is Autism Awareness Day and we learned lots of facts about children with Autism.  People with Autism can be sensitive to sounds and smells and can sometimes find it challenging to be around large groups of unknown people.  We learned that there are ways we can help 🙂

We made and designed our ‘A’ for Autism and are looking forward to displaying our ‘A’s at the gathering.

Achievements

Pupil of the week-Lexi

Daniel has got a grey stripe in Tae Kwon Do

Kyle has been practising his backflips

Emily is now on level 6 in swimming

Elena has been practising her gymnastics

We hope everyone has a super Easter holiday and we shall see you back at school on the 18th April 🙂

Rhia and Sophie: I enjoyed the basketball festival-  we  learned how to play and it was fun

Harvey and Samantha: I enjoyed writing about red squirrels

Eva: I liked learning more about time- I can now tell 5 minute intervals on a clock

Tom: I enjoyed the assembly about Egyptians

Lennox: I enjoyed learning 5 minute intervals in time. I found it quite tricky but I worked hard and got there in the end.

Holly: The basketball festival helped me to discover that I really like basketball!

Naomi: I enjoyed comparing Wales and Scotland in reading comprehension this week.

This week we have been continuing to learn about World War 2. We have been learning about the role of women during the war. Women had many different roles including farming, working in factories and working as nurses. This changed the image of women. We worked in groups to complete a critical skills challenge. We had to create a t.v advert for either rationing or women’s jobs. We had to use our criteria checklist to ensure we included everything. The t.v adverts were fantastic and we still have some to watch next week.#

In art this week we were exploring the use of hot and colours to create a mood or atmosphere in a picture. We use different shades of cold colours to create concentration camp pictures. We could choose whether to use chalk or paint. Some people chose to create a picture of an angry soldier and we used different shades of hot colours for this.

Some of the girls in our class have been helping Mrs Innes organise and choreograph the P2 school show. We had our performances of the show this week and it was wonderful. Well done to everyone involved and the primary 2 children.

See you next week!

Primary 6 pupils have been using their research, reading and note taking skills to find out information about red squirrels in Scotland. We have been learning to record and organise our information in writing and by using Microsoft Powerpoint and Word. Working in pairs, we have found out that red squirrels are native to Scotland but that unfortunately their numbers are declining due to the rise of grey squirrels and a disease that they carry.

Firstly, we planned our reports by using categories to gather information. Next, we wrote our reports by hand and presented them in an organised fashion using subheadings. Afterwards, we typed them up using Microsoft Word. Finally, we self and peer assessed our writing against our targets.

We have enjoyed writing our reports and are pleased that we have worked hard to meet our writing targets. We have learned lots of information about the red squirrel and are looking forward to some themed art work next week. Watch this space!

Pupil of the Week this week was Lauryn who not only met her writing targets, but produced a plan, written and typed report to a very high standard. Well Done for all your hard work, Lauryn!

This week has been a very busy week for P2.  We had our Tuesday dress rehearsal for our show ‘Caterpillar Boogie’ and we had fun trying on our costumes.  The show was on Thursday and we loved giving our special person a bunch of flowers. Very emotional! Miss McDougall and the rest of the P2 staff are very proud of all the P2 children.  They did a fantastic job!

In P.E we learned how to work collaboratively in teams and we enjoyed learning our new games.

Reminder about the Easter competition for the 27th of March to bring in a decorated hard boiled egg.  There will be prizes!

Achievements

Well done to Eva and Emma who won first place at their cheerleading competition

Well done to Eva who won the Safety Banner competition.  She will have her winning design made into a banner and displayed outside the front playground.

Pupil of the week-Emily

We have been practising for our church Service this week and Karys said she really enjoyed it.

This week in outdoor p.e. we were learning to play Rugby and it was very popular!  We are expecting a call from the SRU shortly…

Isla – I liked it making shapes with our bodies in Drama!

Rachael – i liked learning about New Lanark and I am excited about our trip.

Eva – I liked learning different painting techniques and painting cherry blossom trees.

We are off to New Lanark on Tuesday! Please put lunches in a carrier bag and ensure suitable footwear and a waterproof jacket.

The weeks never get any less busy! In Health and Wellbeing this week we acted out situations where we were being annoyed by someone. We had to act out how we would deal with these situations. We learnt to get more confident in dealing with these sorts of problems. The first response is to speak politely for the person to stop whatever they are doing. The second is to repeat yourself more firmly. Finally, if the person continues to annoy us, we give them a ‘last chance warning’ which if they ignore, means that we will tell the teacher.
We have been enjoying our music workshops with NYCoS and are looking forward to them continuing next term for a brief while.
We have also been making Viking games this week. We have devised a number of different games which we are looking forward to playing next week when the rules and pieces are all finalised.
We learnt about Up Helly Aa in our Viking topic. Up Helly Aa is a fire festival held in Shetland on the last Tuesday in January. Squads of men dressed as Vikings march around the streets singing songs. In the evening, a big Viking Galley which has been built on the pier in Lerwick is burnt with the fire from 1000 torches which are thrown into it. After the burning, there are parties and celebrations which go on until the morning. The following day is a day off from school and work to recover! Maisey’s Dad is going to be in one of the squads in the future because his friend will be Guizer Jarl, the chief Viking.
This video was made during this year’s festival

This week the children are bringing home their review jotters. Please ensure that these are returned by Wednesday 29th March.
The Primary 4s have been running a competition to see which class can save the most pennies in their Snuffles box. We look forward to sharing the totals with you!
Pupil of the week – Emily for being a good team players in the benchball festival.

Table of the week – with 740 points

Article 28 – the right to an education