As part of our work on the Jewish festival of Shabbat, we made collage pictures of Havdalah Candles.  Here’s us in action making them:

To help explore numbers within 1000 we played the ‘Head Bands’ game where some of us got a number to stick on our heads and had to ask the rest of the group questions to help work out what the number was.  The rest of the group could only answer ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ so we had to think carefully about the questions we asked e.g. “Am I between 300 and 700?”   “Am I greater than 450?”  “Am I smaller than 600?”  Have a look at some of us below:

Thank you to everyone who came to watch our class assembly on Wednesday, it was great to see so many of you there to support our children and share in our learning.  Thanks also for all the help and support you gave the children with learning their lines, it was great to see that they all managed to present their lines without the use of their scripts.

This week we have been learning more about the Jewish festival of Shabbat:

They smell sweet spices when Shabbat finishes.  (Michael)

They light candles so we made our own Havdalah candle pictures using collage materials. (Brogan)

They tasted Shabbat bread and it tasted kind of like cake.  (Carla)

They have to set their lights on a timer because they weren’t allowed lights on during Shabbat.  (Aiden)

They weren’t allowed to do anything like cleaning and cooking.  (Keris)

Today I got to work with P3/4 and Mrs   Robley on their first STEM challenge. STEM is problem based learning that uses skills in science, technology, engineering and maths. They got to complete a mini challenge to try some of these skills out. A key part is being able to work with a group. They had to be able to talk and listen to each other. They had to work together and support each other to succeed. They learnt that it was ok for them to make a mistake or get it wrong as they could then think how to improve and try again. Well done, Miss Tuke

A huge welcome to our new Primary 1 children and families.  The children had a fantastic start to the school last week and are looking forward to their first week of full days.

This term, P1 children will have PE on a Wednesday with Mrs Warden and on a Thursday with Mrs Sibbald.  A full gym kit of shorts and T-shirt is required, (preferably school colours, no football strips/colours), as well as suitable gym shoes (for safety).

All children will be encouraged to get changed for gym and back into their school clothes independently, so please make sure on gym days your child has clothes that they can easily manage e.g. no shirts and ties.

Gym kits can be left in the cloakroom in a clearly labelled bag.