P6 had great fun at their St Andrews Day Ceilidh on Monday night. Many thanks to all those who attended.

“We got revenge on our parents for making us tidy our room and making us eat shepherds pie by making them join in ceilidh dances!!”  Alex P6

“It was fun singing on the stage.”  Kalanah P6

“My Mum almost threw me into the crowd when we were dancing!” Euan P6

We started writing a Christmas book for children in the nursery. Watch our blog next week for an update on this.

We learnt all about the Learning Pit with Mrs Hocknull on Friday. It helps us learn and gives us strategies when we don’t know what to do.

P4 reflect on aspects of their learning at points throughout the day using our thought wall. They are posed a reflective question and write their own individual answer on their thought bubble.

P4 have been very busy learning all about the Learning Pit. The Learning Pit is a process that you go through when you are learning. We made our own mini pits and discussed how we were feeling on the way down to the bottom of ‘the pit’ then strategies we could use to help us learn and climb out of ‘the pit’.

We will be using these strategies every day in class when we are stuck with our learning.

“The Learning Pit is when you can struggle when you are learning and it makes you feel bad. The Pit helps you learn more and gives you ways to keep going.”  Josh P4

The Learning Pit helps you use strategies to help you get out of the Pit. I feel happy at the top.”   Brooke P4

We made tartan kilts during golden time. It was very messy!!    Alex

We made growth mindset phrases and had to rap them in our groups.   Daryl

We have been practising hard for our St Andrews Day assembly. We look forward to seeing you on Monday….   Sophie

We went to the Lanthorn on Tuesday and did an assembly for 4 other schools.    Euan

The choir went to Lanthorn to sing for elderly people from Woodlands.    Katie

This week is anti bullying week. We are calling it Happiness week. If someone does something kind, we put it on the random act of kindness wall. We also made an anti bullying poster. Four of these will be chosen for our school foyer.   Beth.K

Everyone carried out RAKs (Random Acts of Kindness) for the children in our class – how kind you are P6!! Mrs M x

P4 have been very busy learning all about learning!

First of all we learnt all about how the brain works and how to keep it healthy. Then we focussed on growth and fixed mindsets. A fixed mindset is where you think you can’t do something and give up easily or where you think you are the best you can be and stop trying. A growth mindset is where you keep trying and continually keep learning and building upon your skills and knowledge. It’s where you can’t do something….YET!

We watched this video clip about the Hare and the Tortoise

This week has been mistakes week. We have been learning about the importance of learning from our mistakes. ‘It’s ok not to know but it’s not ok not to try.’ We have a marvellous mistakes wall that we add to to show any mistakes we make and what we learnt from them.

Watch this space to hear all about the learning pit in the next couple of weeks.