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P4 Sponsored Run

P4 completed their charity run this morning, well done boys and girls! Thank you for your kind donations to our Lenten charity, our Tanzanian friends will be delighted with the support they have received.

P4 Spanish Afternoon

As part of our Spanish week, P4 took part in Spanish themed activities to learn about Spanish culture and language. We had a fun afternoon of food tasting, flamenco dancing, researching Spanish phrases and creating our own flags.

Spanish Week in P7D!

This week Primary 7D have been learning about Spain and Spanish culture.

We reflected on the work of Pablo Picasso and we were inspired to create our own Picasso inspired portraits using bright colours and abstract shapes.

We also spent time researching Spain and we created information PowerPoints which we presented to the class.

Finally, we enjoyed tasting Spanish food like chorizo, Spanish tortillas, olives, Manchego cheese and Serrano ham, as well as fruit grown in Spain. Using sensory descriptors, we tried to describe the appearance, smell, taste and texture of each food that we tried.

Congratulations Blazej

Well done to Blazej who successfully picked our hidden square.

Congratulations to our Competition Winners!

Thanks to everyone who took part in our Egg Decorating and Easter Pixelated Art competitions. Mr Martin had a very difficult job but eventually decided on our winners.

Our Egg Decorating winner was Bradon in P3.

Our runners up were Priya (P3) and Farrah (P5).

Our Pixelated Art winner was Amelia (P5)

Congratulations and a huge “Thank you” to everyone who took part.

Here are some of the children with their certificates and a few of the fabulous eggs.

If we missed anyone, don’t worry you’ll get your certificate tomorrow.

All eggs are being proudly displayed outside the school office and will be returned to their owners on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Thanks for participating.

Quick reminder about our Egg Decorating and Pixel Art Competitions

Quick reminder that our hard boiled egg decorating competition will be judged on Monday.

Please bring your egg plus £1 up to P5’s class on Monday morning.

All entries for the Pixelated Easter Art Competition are also due on Monday.

Both winners will be announced on Monday afternoon.

Good Luck!

Scottish National Portrait Gallery Visit (P5)

Today our P5 class visited the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and were asked the question, ‘Does a portrait need a face?’

Mrs Wards’ group visited the library first.

Learning about portraits in the beautiful Library.

After discussing portraits and looking at some examples in the Library we went into the gallery and looked at some modern portraits.

The Three Oncologists’ painting was fascinating.

Our final task was to describe a portrait painting to our partner and then ask them to draw it. This was great fun!

Thank you very much to the staff at the gallery who looked after us so well.

P5 have completed their clay Loch Ness Monsters

Wow! How fantastic do these look?

Preparing for Spanish Week

P5 are getting their bunting ready for Spanish Week next week.

The children have taken responsibility for their own learning and given Mrs Wards a (long) list of topics they want to cover and things they want to learn about.

PHEW! it’s going to be a busy week!

P5 Handball Festival

Well done to the boys and girls from P5 who took part in today’s Handball Festival.

Our four teams won 11 out of their 16 matches! WOW!!!!

As always they behaved impeccably, displayed excellent teamwork and supported each other. They also took responsibility for organising their teams and substitutes to ensure that everyone got a turn.