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

Our week started well when the whole school held a Scottish Assembly. Each class took part. We sang “Heid, shooders, naps an taes”. It was fun learning the song, but we were a bit nervous when we had to sing it in front of everyone else and do the actions too.

“Learning Scottish words was fun, we even used some of them to write a poem called ‘A’ aboot Me’ ” – Charley

“I liked hearing Mrs Gardinier reading ‘The Gruffalo’ in Scots.” – Aimee

We are working hard with our hanwriting. We are learning how to join all our letters, it is fun!

” I like doing handwriting, I am getting better and better at it.” – Phoebe

” I am getting better at joining my letters. I want to learn more” – Hannah

We were challenged to create a wall display, showing what we had learned in our Health topic.  We split into groups and each group was given a different area of learning to display on a section of the display board.  Here is what we came up with.  We’re really proud of our efforts and enjoyed doing this:

Primary 3/4 were using array patterns to help them learn about their 2 and 4 times tables today.  If your son or daughter is in Primary 3 of 4, why not ask them to tell you more about it?