Primary 1 received a letter in the post from a bear named Edward – he invited us to visit him at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh. We travelled by bus and met our helper Julie but when we got … Continue reading →

This afternoon the children were surprised to find footprints in their classroom. After some investigation we found out that some of our toys had awoken and come alive over lunchtime.  They were reading stories in the reading den, writing sentences … Continue reading →

This week Primary 1 and 2 celebrated Burns night with a wee Scottish party. Some of us wore tartan and we danced to Scottish music, showing our best dancing. We played Scottish statues – we learned some highland dance moves … Continue reading →

This week we:      Continued to develop our knowledge of numbers before and after to 10 and beyond.                                            … Continue reading →

This week Primary 1 were really excited about Scottish Book Week.  We would like to share some of our learning: We enjoyed sharing our Bookbug bags with our families and teachers. We counted and subitised using the characters from “I … Continue reading →

We were all very luck this week to have a visit fro author Lari Don.  The whole school got to meet her at a special assembly where we heard about her life as an author, where she gets her inspiration … Continue reading →

This week in numeracy we counted forward and backwards saying alternative numbers (1, 3, 5, 7, etc.) and continued to practice number sequences. We also counted collections and made subitizing patterns using natural materials. We learned about doubles to 10 … Continue reading →

We have had another busy week in Primary 1. We began the week by learning about Guy Fawkes/Bonfire night.  We learned about firework safety and created some firework/bonfire crafts: In numeracy we counted forward and backwards from different numbers to … Continue reading →

This week in maths we learned about forward and backward numeral sequences to 10, starting at different numbers.  We also learned how to recognise regular and irregular dot patterns to 6 (Subitizing) and copied rhythmic patterns, counting the number of … Continue reading →