Some of the pupils from P4/5 were busy this afternoon planting seeds in the welly boots planters.  These seeds should hopefully flower in June so watch this space!

If anyone is at a loose end over the Easter holidays and would like to help with our gardening, we need some volunteers to turn over the 3 raised beds within the garden.  This would allow us to start planting when we return from the Easter holidays.  Please get in touch ASAP if you are able to help us.

The pupils in P1/2 made use of the dry weather yesterday and practised their common word spelling outside.  They had to write their words twice, using 2 different colours of chalk.  Then they had to read their words to a friend, Mrs Brodie or Mrs Johnston.

Keep up the good work all of you!

The P4/5 are continuing their hard work in the garden and this week it involved some weeding, harvesting of potatoes and making a tee-pee trellis.  We also began to attach the decorated welly boots to the fence.  These will be used as planters in the coming weeks.

Mrs Johnston showed the class how to use a 3 canes and a length of string to make a tee-pee trellis.  To tie the canes together the children had to use a lashing and 2 cloves hitch knots in order to make it sturdy.  It was tricky to pull the string tight around the canes however Matthew R and Louis managed and their trellis is now in the raised bed.  We will use this to grow climbing plants and vegetables such as pea pods.

As you can see, the P4/5 have made a great start to the garden by painting the fence.  Many have said they can’t wait for Thursdays so they can get out to paint!  Next, we will move on to painting the planters.

We also had a visitor, in the form of Mrs Johnston’s dad, who worked with a group of children to measure out for a upright frame.  This frame will be used to grow sweetpeas, pea pods and sunflowers against.  Next week the children will use the measurements taken to work out how many garden canes will be needed for each frame.

To warm up their brains, P2 were given different numbers to practise writing in the playground.

P2 have been working on directions in Maths and being able to use directional language.  They had to work with a partner to first of all draw out a route.  Then they have to give their partner directions using language such as: forward, backward, right, left, clockwise, anticlockwise, quarter turn and half turn.