P6 took part in first aid training today thanks to Mike and Dave from Lowport Centre. This was organised after P6 took an interest in first aid during our drugs education topic. The training was excellent and P6 have gained some valuable life skills. Here’s what P6 thought:

Amy says, “I was glad I took part in it because it’s an important skill.”

James says, “The dummies smelt funny”

Ian says, “Both the men who were running it said that I was the best.”

Arran says, “I learned how to do CPR properly!”

Niamh, “I learned how to put somebody into the recovery position.”

Euan “It was really fun and it’s a great life skill. The adults were much harder to give CPR to.”

Ayla: P2 and P2/3 made a volcano explosion. We mixed ingredients to make the lava and put it in a plastic bottle. It only exploded a wee bit.

All of the children were very excited to see the explosion!

Maya: P2 and P2/3 have been busy writing about dinosaurs. We were learning to use full stops, capital letters and to write on the line. We loved drawing the picture of the dinosaur.

Alex: Now P2 have moved on to a new topic which is the Olympics. I want to find out why they do lots of sports in the Olympics. This year it is happening in Rio.

Yixuan: We wrote what we know about the Olympics and what we would like to find out.

Cameron C: In the Olympics there is a lot of swimming races and jumping.

Daniel C: I would like to find out if they play rugby in the Olympics.

Izaak: I want to know if they play golf in the Olympics.

Kiernan: I learnt that the Olympic torch goes all around the country before the Olympics start.

Aiyasha: In maths I learnt that ½ means 1 half.

Kieran: We have been learning how to half a cake and half numbers.

Cameron A: I learnt an easy way to add 9. You add 10 and take 1 away.

Daniel: I’ve been learning to add 10.

Niamh: This week we learnt a new word which is ‘mature’. We are getting ready for going into P3!

Well done to the star of the week: Andrew!

This week started off with some group work in our reading routes groups.  The boys and girls had to work together to think of adjectives to describe different objects.  They thought hard to think of really interesting words then chose their best word to share with the class.  Lots of impressive WOW words were shared – well done everyone!

In maths this week we have been reinforcing our addition to 10 and have been working on improving our quick recall of pairs of numbers which add to make 10.  We played addition board games and used the iPads to help us practise this.  We have also been working on some addition colour by number pictures.  Mrs Lloyd thinks we are getting really good at this!

We have also been working on numbers up to 20 and have practised making and recording the numerals as well as counting out the right number of objects.

In the structured play area we had great fun using our imaginations and dressing up as pirates.  We also completed some pirate jigsaws, built pirate ships from lego and played with the small world pirate ships.  It was brilliant fun!

This week, P1a have been learning about what Pirates look like. We have be taking photos of ourselves and have turned ourselves into Pirates! We have also been thinking about Pirate names for our homework !

‘I am called Captain Daniel Blackbeard’ – Daniel Gough

‘I am called Captain Golden Hair Storm’ Savannah

‘I am called Captain Blackbeard’ – Jack

We have also been drawing pictures of Pirate! They look very scary! On Monday, we learnt about what a Pirate flag is called and we made our own flags ! Don’t they look super.

P1a loved dressing up as Pirates and going into the new Pirate role play area ! They had so much fun!

In Maths, we have been practising our adding and made super Pirate Addition ships and we have also been practising how to count to 20.  We also learnt how to share the Pirate coins out equally !