P4 pupils from Greenrigg and Stoneyburn joined up today to do some recycled art. We had asked for pupils to bring in bottle lids, cans and jar lids and we received a huge amount. Pupils had a great choice of materials to choose from. Apart from being shown a few ideas the pupils were given free choice to use the materials they wanted and create their own design. We had a huge range of art produced including pictures and models. Many groups had some issues with joining materials and had to experiment with the best way to get their different parts to stick together. In the afternoon we went outside. Two groups were given a supply of cans and bottle lids and to plan and create a finished design. The boys went for a spiral design and the girls created a snake. 

We have been thinking about the things we have been doing at school this week.  The things we have enjoyed doing, the things we have been learning and the things we would like to do again so we can get better at them.

We are all enjoying our Run to Rio, especially on a Friday when our family can come along and join in too. Some of us would like to do the Run to Rio every day if we could!

Some of us have been working on the school gardens. We have been planting seeds so we can grow potatoes and onions and we have been tidying up the garden area by pulling weeds and sweeping up.  We are pleased with how it is looking but we are keen to plant some more things and watch them grow.

When we were thinking about things we would like to get better at, some of us were thinking about Maths and some of us were thinking about Vowel House but we all agreed that whatever it was that we wanted to get better at, we needed to practice things over and over again to improve.  We thought about how we would know if we were getting better at things too.  We said that we would feel “happier when we are doing it” , “we would be able to help other people with it”  and “we would be able to tell another person what we were doing.”

As part of our islands topic, we made ‘cocktails’ from the fruits from Caribbean Islands. First of all we had a taste of each of the juices, then we decided which ones we wanted to mix together to make our ‘cocktails’, (they really were mocktails). We also had ice and lemonade in our drinks, and had to give our mocktail a name before we could drink it! We got to make a couple then choose our favourite, it was great fun!!

This week we have had lots of different learning opportunities in lots of different places! We had a dancing taster session with Alex, in the gym hall, who is going to resume her after school dance club, in school,  on a  Tuesday. Then on Wednesday we moved our learning outside. We took a closer look at what was all around us, then we wrote poems about learning outside! Here are a couple of examples from Fraser Brown and Aimee Green.

On Thursday Jammin’ Andy was in school working with the P7’s, but he worked with us too! The P7’s taught us what they had been taught, and Fraser and Charlie became teachers too! We all had a great time!

Our first week back has been really busy with lots of fun things to do. We enjoyed doing mental maths with Mrs Gardinier, then we went to the gym hall for Judo. We were doing Judo with Marv from Destination Judo.

” I enjoyed doing Judo with Marv, he was funny.” – Leah

“We were doing break falls with Marv. We slapped our hands on the floor to make a loud sound! We got to throw our partners too ” -Phoebe.

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Baby Allie also came to visit us for Roots of Empathy. We haven’t seen her since November! She has grown a lot! She can sit by herself now, and she was paying lots of attention to us. She was looking right at us and smiling. She even waved to us! It is good to see Allie reach her ‘milestones’ and the difference it makes to her. She is teaching us lots of things! What a good teacher she is!!

” Baby Allie was awake for the whole time she was with us. She was laughing and playing with her doll! She can pick up things and hold them by herself now.” – Katie