We enjoyed carrying out a bird survey to see what kind of birds we have in our playground. We also enjoyed making bird feeders. Callum and Max made friends with Daniel. Aaron said he liked looking for birds outside. Lily-Ann said the lard was yuk! The most popular bird we have in the playground is the Blackbird.
Here are some photos of P2 enjoying the dance taster session. We had lots of fun and look forward to the next lesson.
Thank you to Hannah!
This morning parents and carers were invited in to see what we have been doing in literacy. Mrs Gibson shared the school’s approaches to literacy with a short presentation in the hall. This looked at different ways we learn about literacy and how they can help their children at home. Parents and carers were then able to go and visit their child or children’s classrooms to take part and share in what they are doing for literacy, with reading as the main focus. This gave a little taster of the kinds of things we do and how they can continue this at home too. Please have a look at some of the photos. There was also a leaflet given out about ways to help your child with reading at home. There are extra copies outside the office.
We were very fortunate to have a visit from the Zoolab company who brought along some ‘friends’ to show us. We had an amazing time getting to know more about nocturnal animals such as the ghost snail, toad, millipede, cockroach and even a snake! Ben said the millipede felt bumpy. Aaron said the snake felt cold. McKenzie said the cockroach is a scavenger. Thank you Zoolab we had so much fun and enjoyed seeing all the different creatures.
Each class have a selection of 4 STEM bins. There are 8 different bins altogether. These bins are tubs that contain 1-2 materials such as lolly sticks or cubes. They also have some starter challenge cards like ‘can you build a maze’ and ‘can you create a bridge to cross a 10cm gap’. The children can then work on their own, in pairs or in small groups to use the materials to build, lay out and create something to solve their challenge. The feedback from the children is that they love these and enjoy making their own challenges. It is great to see how different children will tackle a problem in such different ways and really show off their ideas and creativity. Next time you have a few empty boxes or tubes at home, set your child a challenge to use them to make something to solve a problem. Â 
The class have been set a challenge to select an object to bring in from home to put in the box. The children then have to ask questions and try to work out what the object is. This activity extends the children’s vocabulary skills and is also good fun.
Happy New to everyone from the GRC. Please check out the news wall next to the dinning hall for all the updated news.
Today, primary 1, 2 and 3 participated in workshops run by the church. We had great fun making glasses (P1) snow globes (P2), houses (P3) and bracelets. We then listened to Mary telling us some stories about finding God and Jesus and about Heaven. Pastor Ian told us about the Good News Club on Thursday evenings at 7pm at Greenrigg Mission as well as Sunday School (on Sundays!) at Bernhar Church in Eastfield.
P2 invited parents and grans into class to share in the Read, Write, Count Book Bag gifting event. We read some stories, we wrote about characters in the books and we played the snakes and ladders game. Aaron said it was fun making up names for the puppets. Lily-Ann said it was fun seeing all the mums and dads and grans in school. Brendan said he enjoyed playing snakes and ladders with his gran.
Callum said he got two sixes in a row when he played snakes and ladders.
Kimberley said she was writing in the wee book.
McKenzie said he won the rocket game.
Payton said he won both games.
Max said he beat his dad at snakes and ladders.
Ben said he beat his mum too!
Jayden said he was happy because he won the game.
Kayla said she was happy because she won the rocket game.
Aiden said I am happy because I beat my mum at the rocket game.
Tyler said he was happy because he was playing with Kayla.
Rhys had fun with the puppets with his mum.
MacKenzie said he enjoyed playing snakes and ladders and he beat his dad too!
Max and McKenzie said, we had lots of fun working together today.
Miss Tuke gave P2 a challenge to build the highest tower using cups. We had fun working together in groups to build the tallest tower we could. Lily-Ann came up with the idea of using two cups on the bottom level to give more support. Well done Lily-Ann!
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