Happy New Year to all our Greenrigg families! Primary 7 have had a busy start to the New Year. Here,s what we have been up to:

We have made some short term, realistic resolutions together. Some for our own lives and one for school. We have them on our wall to reflect on this month.

Miss Watson has been spending time with Primary 7’s doing IZAK 9 lessons which have been both fun and challenging. We are glad to have her back and hope we are distracting her from missing her lovely boys.

Judo has been challenging and Marv is working us extra hard. I can see a big change in the effort the children are putting in and the determination they are showing. Well done to the class, everyone brought their kit last week.

In literacy we are reading and listening to thrilling stories. We are going to be writing our own thrillers this fortnight and some of the ideas the pupils have are terrifying, just the right amount of chill down your spine. This week coming we will work on building tension and atmosphere.

In maths this week, we had a visit from Peter and Bronwyn from RBS Moneysense. We carried out a workshop with Mrs Robley on party planning. A lot of thought went into what was needed for a party and what the term good value meant. The pupils were split into small groups and planned unique parties and presented them to their classmates.

Finally, the class have been having very different break times this last week with all the snow. They have been helping children in the lower school in the playground and being very creative.