P3 and P4/3 were busy this afternoon designing their own Roman shields. They worked collaboratively to create designs which were similar to Roman shields containing arrows, wings and symmetrical shapes.
Primary 3 have just started their new topic on the Romans. Â They have looked at how Rome got its name through the story of Romulus and Remus. Â They have also found out that Rome is built on seven hills. Â They created paper mache models of the seven hills and the River Tiber and painted them. Â They think they look very effective.
P3 pupils from P4/3 were practising their joined handwriting by creating Christmas cards. They designed the front cover and had to write the message on the front and the inside using joined handwriting. They look fantastic!
All lined up to ‘ congo’ to the lunch hall.
Tucking into our delicious lunch.
Happy times with our classmates.
Primary 3 had a great time at our Christmas Lunch today. Â We made reindeer hats in the morning and wore them to our lunch. Â We sang Christmas songs while eating our dinner. Â The turkey, steak pie and lasage were all yummy!!.
We were are full up but managed to finish the ice cream and the chocolate Freddo as well!!
Thank you to the kitchen staff for your hard work not just today but throughout the rest of the year.
As part of our continuing work as a level two Rights Respecting School, our two pupil assessors spoke to the whole school. Â This term all pupils are being asked their opinions on new charters for the dinner hall and playground. Â Dinner hall and playground staff will also be consulted about these charters as it is important that we all agree on what we should do to help keep everyone happy, healthy and safe.
The photographs show some primary 6 and 7 pupils working together to decide on relevant articles for the playground charter and our pupil assessors speaking at assembly.
P4/3, P4 and P5 were learning all about Scottish wildlife last week. All P4 and P5 had the chance to go on the wild about Scotland bus where they were finding out about beavers and Scottish wildcats. The bus is an initiative run by Clydesdale Bank and the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland. Staff from the zoo were on the bus to teach pupils all about native wildlife. They learned about different habitats, compared fur and paw prints and tried to build an effective dam. While not on the bus, other groups were doing activities such as creating labelled drawings of beavers and drawing beaver habitats.
P3 and P4/3 have been busy this week preparing for the Christmas Fayre. We were creating posters using persuasive language. All pupils had the chance to make reindeer dust and chocolate santas. We will also be in charge of Christmas tattoos and the bottle/gift bag tombola.
As part of health and wellbeing, P4/3 were thinking about safety in different situations today. In groups they had to role play making good choices, wrong choices or difficult choices in a range of different situations. We discussed choices about crossing the road, playing with matches and eating and drinking unknown substances. Each group made the choice of how to act out the scene which led to some excellent discussion about what could happen. We will continue next week with some more situations.
A Field of Poppies
Last week Primary 3 took notes from the Poppy Scotland website during writing time. This activity helped them appreciate the significance of the poppy. Â During an expressive arts lesson they recreated their own fields of poppies using a dabbing technique with their paintbrushes. Â Their finished pictures were fantastic.
P4/3 were practising their presentation skills this week. All pupils had to carry out research at home and produce a fact file about our topic Harry Potter. They then had to present their fact file to the class. The fact files were all different and were on topics such as owls, the Philosopher’s Stone and the Harry Potter films.
