This week was a very exciting week with our World Book Day assembly at the Lanthorn.  We really enjoyed our singing and some of us presented a small play about the book of God’s Law.  We chose to sing the song Bear Necessities and did very well even with the tricky part about the PawPaw.

For World Book Day we enjoyed dressing up as book characters.  We had Sandy Dee, Firestar, Bluestar, Dork Diaries and many more.

Most of us have really enjoyed gymnastics this week, but some of us found it a bit challenging.  In our health we found out how much sugar was in the drinks we enjoy.  7Up really surprised us, and not in a good way.

Today we met Pablo the SuperBanana who was teaching us all about Fairtrade.  We have some exciting homework searching for Fairtrade labels and researching where our food comes from.

Dojo winner this week was…. Emma M.   A special congratulations to Chloe Bell and Emma Russell who proudly represented us at the Burn’s poetry competition!

This week we have had fun learning about how to become a knight.  We used the internet to research the different roles that pages, squires and knights performed.  We have  not found any women who were knights in the castles, but we do know that some women were given knighthoods and took the title of Dame.

We also did some more handball in PE and we can see improvements since we started.  We are getting better at all our handball skills.

In maths we are continuing to work our way through fractions, which Emma is finding very easy.  Caitlyn has also been very successful this week.

To improve our strategies for learning we looked at the learning pit and made posters.  We now have more skills and confidence when tackling new and challenging tasks.

Dojo of the week was Katie!

Today we had a very special visit in P4/5 when Ella showed us her Upsee.  Ella was really excited to show us how it worked.  The Upsee attached Ella to an adult and lets her walk around.  The Upsee was provided by Bankton and we are all very proud to see Ella walking about! P4/5 are very grateful to Ella for showing us her Upsee!

This week we have had lots of fun practicing handball.  We have played lots of different little games to improve our skills, and we even had a few secondary school students in to help us.  We also had fun starting a weaving project for our castle topic.  Liam found this very hard, while Aiden did quite well at it!  Carla found it quite easy and she is excited to do more.  We had fun picking out information for our posters, although some of us found this to be very time consuming.  The posters are looking great.  Fractions have been coming along very well in maths with a few children even calling it ‘easy’.  Lastly Chloe McFarlane was our star of the week for being very helpful to others, well done Chloe!