This week we had our Burns competition. Laura and Zoe represented our class and we are very proud of them.

In maths we have been learning our 8x table and we liked listening to the 8x table rap. We have been multiplying a 2 digit number by a single digit number and we are starting to get the hang of it now. Zoe and Brooke think that we need to practise more and do our homework on this for next week.

Carlos really liked writing his story about a knight. We had to keep the story going and keep the characters going too. Sir Lancelot and Sir Galahad did lots of different things. Laura wrote a super story where Sir Lancelot married the princess and they lived happily ever after.

Morgan took 2 days to do her learning pit poster but she thinks it was worth it.

Today we were learning about drugs in HWB. We were looking at activities that can give us a natural high such as doing hobbies and playing with friends.   James

We have been exploring the work of Picasso this week. Watch this space for some photos of our art work next week….!     Kalanah

On Monday we did gymnastics in gym again. We were practising cartwheels, forward and backward rolls. It was fun!    Alex

We played Growth Mindset football. We had to challenge our opponents to find the opposing Growth Mindset phrase.   Laurie-Anne

Sophie won the Burns Competition which means she will be going through to recite her poem ‘The Joyful Widower’ at St Kents Academy. Well done Sophie!

This week we have been working very hard to subtract a small number from a bigger number. Some children were even counting up into the thousands! In spelling we learnt new words like ‘sight’, ‘tight’ and ‘high’.

We enjoyed a super performance from Macastory who visited the school this week. They told us excellent Scottish stories and they taught us some Scottish songs.

Sachin: ‘I have learnt some new verbs like ‘to eat’, ‘to row’ and ‘to sail’.’

Ayla: ‘I learnt some new Scottish words like ‘mooth’ which means mouth, ‘lugs’ which means ears, ‘airms’ which means arms and ‘taes’ which means toes’.

Kiernan: ‘I have learnt how to draw a dinosaur using a stencil’.

Aiysha: ‘We learnt that some dinosaurs eat leaves and some don’t eat leaves’.

Izaak: ‘Carnivores are meat eaters. Meat and plant eaters are omnivores. Plant eaters are called herbivores’.

Niamh: ‘I have learnt some names of dinosaurs. I know about the Stegosaurus’.

Cameron A: ‘I learnt that Pterodactyls can fly’.

Kieran: ‘We have been learning to subtract in maths. Also I learnt what a t-rex eats’.

Well done to the class dojo champion Ayla Cowan.

We made raps, posters and leaflets showing the dangers of certain substances in Health and Wellbeing. We looked at warning signs as well.   Kian

We have been learning about tobacco. We played a game called Who Am I? We had to guess who cigarette smoke infected the most in a household.  Daryl and Harry

We have been doing gymnastics in gym. We have been practising cartwheels. Alex

We were to choose an animal of our choice and write two paragraphs about them. One about what the animal looks like and one about how it moves and acts. We were to translate this into Scots language. Jaime

We were learning Scottish poems such as ‘Lament on Mary Queen of Scott’s.’   Emma

Aisha brought in a lovely piece of work she completed at home in showing information on the Eatwell Plate.

This week, P1a have been learning all about doubles.

‘2+2 is 4’ –  Chloe

6 + 6 is 12 – Fraser

We also made doubling lady birds!!! They look super!

P1a have also been learning about Jack and the Beanstalk. We found out that the Giant was a bad character because he steals the hen and the harp.

We made wanted posters to warn others about him.

We have also been practicing our Scottish poems and we learnt all about Robert Burns.  We had visitors from Macastory, who told stories and sang songs about Robert Burns ! They were really funny.