This week we want to tell you about something that happened last week. We were invited to P1/2’s musical day. They had been learning lots of different things about sounds and beats, and at the end of their busy day they wanted to share their learning, we were the lucky class chosen. We had a great time, they told us a story with lots of musical bits in it all the way through it. It was brilliant!

“My favourite bit was the twinkly stars bit” – Aimee

“I liked the way they kept the beat using different things” – Alfie

“The sound of the waves at the beach was my favourite bit” – Keris

In Maths we have been learning how to make numbers ten times bigger. We had fun talking about it and trying different ways to do it.

“I was worried at first, but then I found it easy” – Cory

“It’s good to talk about using different ways to find answers” – Fraser

Rachel is still helping us to improve our football skills. She plays games with us to warm up, they are fun too.

On Thursday we went to the hall to watch P5 and P6/7 put on a performance for us about internet safety. They all worked very hard, and warned us about how we use our computers, what sites we go on, and about passing information on.

It has been a busy, hard working but enjoyable week.

Primary 7 are looking for some newspaper for their transition project on Monday.
If you have any, please could you give it to a P7 pupil or Miss Welsh either on Friday or Monday morning.
Thank-you for your help.

Over the last few weeks we have been investigating the Loch Ness Monster.  We explored possible sightings and researched reasons ‘For’ and ‘Against’ the existence of Nessie.  The children suggested we hold a debate on the subject as they had been hearing all about this from children who attend our after school debating club.

So, children who attend the debating club explained how a debate was organised and then we got started.  Our motion was… ‘Does the Loch Ness monster actually exist?’  Have a look at the proposition and opposition stating their side of the argument.  Robbie B was our chairperson:

This week we started our Run to Rio by doing our daily 15 minutes daily run/jog/walk. At first we found it hard, on the first day we only did it for 5 minutes, the next day it was 10 and on the third day we finally reached the 15 mins. Because the weather was really bad outside we had to do our running in the hall. To have run a mile we had to run around the gym on the red line 42 times!! We all tried really hard, here is how far we, as a class, have run this week 3 miles, 8 miles, 8 miles and finally 10 miles!! Phew!! maybe next week we’ll manage even more!

This week we learned about Chinese New Year. We had a visitor in school to tell us all about it, and to share with us what the new year means to her. Rong-Rong played her music instrument for us too and helped us write our name in Chinese and make paper fans.

“I liked making fans with Rong Rong”- Jack

“I liked working with Rong Rong, but then we went and practised football skills” – Cory

It was time for another visit from baby Allie this week too. She has grown again. This week we were learning about how Allie lets her Mum know how she is feeling. Mum can tell from her cries whether she is hungry, wet, sleepy or upset! Clever Mum! Allie likes being on her back, she uses her feet to turn herself around! When Mrs Allardyce put her on her tummy she was not happy, not happy at all. To let us know that she wasn’t happy she cried! It made us a bit sad too, Mummy had to comfort her, but she need to suck on her dummy too! Allie can take her dummy out by herself now and put it back in.

“We learned why baby Allie cries” – Danielle

“Allie can nearly roll over now. ” –  Leah

“Allie’s hair is longer, she had a lovely clip in, I liked it” – Hannah