Today, we benefited from everyone who cycled, scooter-ed and walked to school, with a visit from a stunt team. The team performed some amazing and breathtaking stunts as well as speaking about the skills needed. They also held a question and answer slot.

This is what P1/2 thought about the visit.

Melissa – They did cool stunts!

Sam – They needed balance on their tires.

Jacob – They jumped over a very high wire.

Carla –  They crossed a bridge, then jumped onto their van. It was cool! (Don’t try this at home! This was a specially strengthened van with a platform built into the roof).

Freya – They were able to hop on their bikes.

Amy – They needed great balance skills.

Alliyah – They told us they needed to practise a lot.

Libby – They needed to practice their skills to do all the jumps.

Willow – One of the stunt them did a twirl when he jumps off the van.

Hazel – I liked listening to the questions and answers at the end.

After Miss McGeachy and Primary 3/4 St Andrew’s Day assembly, Primary 1/2 wrote acrostic poems on Scotland. Pupils did very well at using different sentence openers, as well as remembering the basic skills in writing, using full stops, capital letters and finger spaces.

We were able to get outdoors and enjoy a little sunshine to do our spelling words and practice writing our names. Primary 1 have been learning to sound out and blend consonant, vowel, consonant words, helping to read words such as pat, sat, pin, tin etc.

Pupils have been learning about toys Then and Now. We completed Venn diagrams to show which toys were played with then and now. Pupils also made Peg Dolls just as children would have done in Victorian times.

Pupils added ‘mud’ to their woodland setting to match with the story ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’. They mixed glue, paints, flour and water. When pupils mixed the ingredients too smooth, they engaged in problem solving, working out how to keep th lumps in.