As part of a home learning task, our class had to make their own garden. The children brought in their gardens today and had to give a class talk and describe WHAT they used, HOW they made their garden and WHO helped them. The gardens were beautiful and it was clear that a lot of effort has been put in. Thank you to everyone who helped and was involved.

Here are some pictures of our beautiful gardens in Primary 1w:

Here are some children’s favourite parts of other children’s gardens:
Eva – I really liked the see-saw in my garden
Lucas – I liked Max’s garden because I liked the lavendar plant
Lewis – I liked putting soldiers in my garden
Kaycee – I liked the dumper truck in Max’s garden
Donna – I liked Tamsyn’s pots because they look very nice
Anna – I liked the seashells in Tamsyn’s garden
Tamsyn – I liked my cat that was in the water
Maisie – I liked my dog when he jumped in the paddling pool
Farrah – I liked the dogs in Maisie’s garden
Katie – I liked Tamsyn’s because it sounded like “In the night garden”

This week we measured and designed a scarecrow. We used materials, jewels and more for its clothes. Some people did girls and others did boys. They all looked fabulous!

In writing we did a recount of what we enjoyed in primary 3 we wrote about our friends, learning and our achievements.

Have a nice weekend,

By Rachael and Grace

Article 28- Right to an Education

This week we are going to take a wee wonder down memory lane as we remember our highlights in p6.

Josh – It’s gotta be our Harry Potter potions in science.

Ava – Loved the creative storywriting!

Sophie – Everything Harry Potter!

Emma – I liked doing the mythical creatures.

Sam – I loved the Space topic, and Olivia.

Megan – Olivia!

Taylor – I liked learning about the Caribbean Island – I wanted to go there.

Adam – My best thing was creating my best story ever!

Erin – I liked all the art we did.

Eve – I liked doing all the science experiments.

Lily – the Caribbean

Lucy – I liked the makey-makey music.

Well done to Rachel, Cameron and Eve on being successful in their applications to be House Captains.  We are really proud of you!

All that is left for us next week is our Sports Day and our Church Service because ….we re all going on a summer holiday….

On Wednesday, Primary One went to the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh. Lots of fun was had by everyone and lots of interesting information was given.

Here are some of the things we enjoyed about the trip:

“We liked seeing the baby ducks, they were cute” (Jamie, Alistair and Brandon).

“We learned about SWAF – Shelter, Water, Air and Food” (Charlotte).

“I liked the monkey puzzle tree, it felt soft and spiky. The monkeys can’t climb up it so they have to wait for the fruit to fall off it” (Cameron).

“I liked playing all the games; ‘teddy bear tig’ was fun” (Ammie-Leigh).

“We saw a really big tree with massive leaves” (Zara).

“We liked being on the bus” (Lucas and Liam).

This week Primary 1 went on their trip to The Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh. We explored the gardens and learned many new things about nature! We learned a secret code – SWAF. This stands for:
-Shelter
-Water
-Air
-Food
Animals (and people) need all of these things to survive.

The first thing that we did on our trip was have a nice snack and learn about SWAF.

Next we played a game where some children were little brown bears and everyone else wore a coloured band. The coloured bands represented the colours of SWAF. The little brown bears had to get all 4 colours in their “den” to win!

We then saw lots of lovely ducks and lily pads!

We were so excited to find a hidden message in one of the trees. Our group leader Tricia read it out to us. It said that there were bears in the garden and they had left clues as to where we could find them. Here are some pictures of us finding the clues…

When we had finished our bear hunt we found that we were back at the start and there were bears eating our lunches!!

We enjoyed our “Teddy Bears Picnic” and the weather was beautiful for sitting outside.

Finally, we were given a SWAF pack to make our own SWAF islands in a group. We had to make sure that our island included:
-Shelter
-Water
-Air
-Food
Here are some pictures of our islands…

“WILSON ISLAND”

“TROPICAL ISLAND”

“TREASURE ISLAND”

“CAPTAIN SHAUN ISLAND”

We had a fantastic time on our trip and here are our favourite parts:
Farrah – When we were eating our lunch with the teddies
Jodie – I liked when we were watching the ducks swim
Tamsyn – I liked it when the teddy bears were eating our lunches
Hannah – I liked it when Aaron said the teddy bears ate his lunch and he was angry
Archie – When we were on the bus
Donna – When we were making our SWAF islands
Max – The bus was really fun
Alfie – I loved looking out the window on the bus
Anna – I liked playing the little brown bear chasing game
Lewis – I liked playing “rock, paper, scissors” on the bus
Holly – Playing with Lewis on the bus
Lily – When we were singing songs on the bus
Erin – Playing the little brown bear game
Eva – I liked singing the songs on the bus
Lucas – I liked finding the teddy bears
Shaun – Seeing the teddy bears eating Aaron’s lunch!
Maisie – My favourite part on the trip was going on the bear hunt
Arran – I liked going home on the bus
Dylan – I liked playing with my friends at lunch time
Katie – I liked the picnic because my teddy was sunbathing
Kaycee – I liked it when we were on the bus
Aaron – I loved the entire day!

Article 28: The right to an education

This has been another busy week in P5d.

We have been learning to calculate and represent a fraction as a percentage. We were all quite confident about this task as we had already touched on this earlier in the term when Mrs Drummond took a ‘backwards’ approach to teaching fractions, percentages and decimals. We all agree it has helped!

We have also been learning how to interpret information displayed on a graph or table. The tricky part of this was reading the question properly and being able to use a key.  Mrs Drummond agrees that we are all very good at this now!

We have been looking back on the different things we have learned in language over the year. We were then given a passage to up-level. Mrs Drummond asked us to impress her by using personification, similes, adjectives, adverbs, connectives and interesting words. We were all successful!

On Thursday we recorded information about the lifecycle of the plants that we have been growing in class. We had to sequence the process the plants have gone through and state why we think our plants did or did not grow well. We also had to discuss the plants we experimented with. Some had no water, some had no light and some were deprived of both. Growing the plants and experimenting this way really helped us to understand about photosynthesis because when we just talked about it we found it difficult to understand.

This week we had our Golden Club event in school and those of us who attended had a fantastic time!

This time next week …….

This week Primary 1 had their class trip to the Botanics.  Here we explored the gardgens to learn about what animals need to survive in the wild – S.W.A.F. (shelter, water, air & food).  We hunted for clues and played lots of games to learn about each part.  At the end of the day we built an island to show everything we had learned.

Learning about SWAF

Hunting for clues

Our ‘bears’ finding everything they need to survive.  They could only have one of each so they did not use up all of the forest’s resources.

Below our finished islands.

This is what we thought:

Ellis – I liked making the food for the animals.

Ellie Rose – I liked making the animal food too. We had a fire in ours. It was a project.

Orla – I learned about SWAF. It keeps you alive. My favourite bit was the squirrels.

Sandra – I liked seeing the three teddies.

Blaire – I liked seeing the grey squirrels.  They were eating nuts.

Kai – I learned how to stay still if I want to see wild animals.

Samuel – I saw hedgehogs under the trees.

Evan – I liked walking through the gardens. I saw a red spider mite on a tree.

Jay – I liked seeing the squirrels climbing up and down the trees.

Jamie – I saw purple flowers and they were beautiful.

Rory – I saw squirrels playing games.

Alexander – I saw blue, red, white and orange flowers that smelled really nice.  I saw roses too.

Alfie – I saw a bee collecting pollen from the flowers. It takes it to its’ home and makes it into honey.

Ross – I learned how to make islands out of food for animals and wood and leaves. I used a stick to make a flag.

Niamh – We played a game pretending to be a bear. We wore a coloured band and all the colours were the SWAF. It was fun.

Murray – I saw squirrels going up and down trees. They were in a big garden.

Brooke – I made a little village out of sticks and string and flowers.

Bryce – I liked having a picnic lunch. There were lots of trees and squirrels there.

2 weeks on Sunday I’m going to start learning bowls at the bowling club! Lexis

I am having a birthday party in the summer holidays and it’s only 9 days until the holidays! Kiera H (Yes! Says Mrs McClafferty)!

I am so excited for the Grease show for choir and musical theatre! Madeleine

I enjoyed being a judge in P5m’s Got Talent! Scott ( and he’s great at the Chicken Dance)

I might be getting a dog for my birthday and my birthday is on the very last day of school.  Zoe

This week I enjoyed doing the talent show.  Olivia

This week I enjoyed the talent show.  Me, Olivia and Clara entered and came joint second! Ella (Well done girls)

I enjoyed the talent show and all of the excellent acts.  (Louise)

On the 19th October – 23rd I’m going to Centre Parcs and I enjoyed being a judge on the talent show. Roan

In the talent show me and Ellie came joint second doing gymnastics.  Kiera B

I’m going to the cinema in the summer holidays! Andrew

I can’t wait until 23rd of June as it’s my little brother’s birthday. Ellie

I enjoyed the talent show and at the end of my performance I did a belly flop! Freya (Ouch! Sounds sore)!

The pictures of the talent show are great! Well done to the winners Isla and Lucy!

Thank you to all who made today’s Talent Show such a success – the fantastic acts, the hilarious judges, Casey and Kiera for counting and verifying the votes and of course – our ever enthusiastic audience.

Enjoy the memories.

Article 29

Education should develop our

personalities and talents to the

full.

Today we learned about the ‘oo’ digraph in phonics.  We used cheerios and hula hoops to create the ‘oo’ sound.

Here are some thoughts from the children:

‘This was the best phonics ever because we got to eat the sounds!’ – James

‘The hoops helped me to write the ‘oo’ words because the look like o’s’ – Kay

‘I thought it was really fun because I could eat my phonics’ – Miles

‘I liked it because we’ve never done this before and I really like cheerios’ – Alfie

Let’s hope you remember more than just the taste of the ‘oo’ sound, boys and girls!