As part of our fundraising efforts for Comic Relief, Primary 6B will be selling noses in school starting on Friday 11th March. Noses are £1.50 each.
We will also have a dress down pyjama day in school on Friday 18th March for Red Nose Day itself. We ask that children who come to school wearing their pyjamas bring a small donation towards our fundraising.
We explored International women’s day by looking at some inspirational women throughout history; recognising that there have not always been equal rights. We then discussed unconscious bias, looking more closely at animated films, character portrayal and story writing.
Based on this research, we came up with our own take on a ‘Protesting Princess’, have a look at some of the activist statements and compositions we ended up with.
Last week Primary 6B participated in many learning activities to celebrate World Book Day 2022.
Firstly, we visited our new School Library and thoroughly enjoyed our visit, exploring the new areas and enjoying a quiet read. In class we considered ourselves as readers, in particular our current strengths and personal preferences in texts. We designed book covers for our own stories and watched a live event with some famous authors including Michael Morpurgo. In small teams we created characters for World Book Day on Friday.
On Monday 21st February both Primary 6 classes worked with artist Svetlana Kondakova to design a memorial artwork project for the new Almondell Cemetery.
To allow visitors time for reminiscing and quiet observation the theme for the artwork was water and nature. The children considered how peaceful watching a river could be and used local plants and flowers to decorate the top of the sculpture so it represented an autumnal river with plant life floating on top. Each child designed their own templates before cutting out and making their own design. These were then collated to make a larger sculpture including all 52 individual pieces. The paper template for the sculpture is now proudly displayed in school. We cannot wait to see the finished sculpture in the community.
In P5/4, we have had a very busy week with all our learning. On Thursday, it was World Book Day and we celebrated by starting the day with “Relax and Read.” Our favourite thing about this is choosing where in the classroom we would like to read (as long as we choose a safe place.) As you will see from our photos, we chose some interesting places to enjoy a book.
We have been learning how to see ourselves as readers and we know that we enjoy reading more when we get to choose books we like. One of the highlights of our week was our first visit to the library. Unfortunately, Miss Marra forgot to pictures as she was enjoying it so much too. Caitlin proudly cut the ribbon and we were so excited to enjoy our new space. It was hard to choose from so many comfortable and exciting places to read. The choice of books was amazing too. Some of us even chose to read some nostalgic books from when we were younger. One of our favourites was Stick Man and Elmer. We can’t wait to go back for our next visit.
Another highlight in our learning this week was when we engaged in Drama to clarify our understanding of a text. In class, we have been reading the Harry Potter series as our class novels. We are currently reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. We engaged in a “Hot Seat” learning activity in which we chose to be in role as a character from the series and everyone had to ask us questions. Miss Marra modelled our learning first by being “in role” as Draco Malfoy which everyone found hilarious. Our Drama skills were very impressive and we used our knowledge of our chosen character well to engage in this learning activity.
We engage in Mental Maths daily and we have been working hard on using division to solve problems. We are developing our confidence using the “Bus Stop Method” and this is helping us apply our knowledge to word problems.
Our new Maths Topic is “Time.” We started our topic by having a great class discussion about why we need to learn to tell the time. We use time so much in our daily lives! We have been practising some of the different times we already know e.g. o’clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to. We engage in outdoor Maths and Numeracy every Thursday, and this week we practised telling the time in the playground. Struan did the honours, drawing a large analogue clock with our chalk. We then practised different times with some of us representing the hands. We had to jump to the correct number and we were able to talk about why this was the correct number, using the Numeracy skills we know and our prior knowledge of time. Our next step is to move on to five minute intervals.
Article 29: We have the right to develop our talents and abilities.
This week primary 1 have celebrated World Book Day and the opening of our new school library!
We loved visiting our new library and are excited to spend more time there reading and listening to stories.
On Friday we dressed up as our favourite book characters. Look at us!
We have had a busy week, preparing for and delivering our Primary 7 assembly on Fairtrade. The pupils did a marvellous job of leading their learning and delivering an amazing and engaging assembly. Well done!
We also had the privilege of being the first class to open the new library and we loved it! Our learners now have a new learning environment that allows us to explore our inquisitiveness and enjoyment in reading.
Have a look at some of our photos from World Book day, our assembly and library visit.
Some creative costumes! 
Choose The World You Want – Fairtrade. 
Where’s Wally? 
Where is he?
Little Miss Magic and the golden ticket.
Some relaxed reading. 
Sharing our books. 
An interactive reading experience with our class Audio Book.
P5 have been redrafting and up levelling our recount pieces of writing in our jotters and on Glow.
In maths we are finding fractions of amounts and will start learning about telling the time digitally and on an analogue clock. We will also start looking at time intervals next week.
We have been working in groups too! We have been looking into the life of a solider and their kit bag while living in the western front during WW1. We have also been preparing for our class assembly which we will be presenting to the rest of the school next Friday.
We enjoyed a visit to our new school library on Tuesday afternoon. It was a fantastic experience and we cannot wait to use this space to develop our love for reading…We had so much fun!
This week P2B have been very busy. To celebrate book week and world book day, we have written book reviews, designed book covers and decided that we would like to create a display on one of our favourite stories, ‘The Snail and the Whale’. Today, we went to the opening of our new school library and had great fun 😀.
Today P7 celebrated Fairtrade Fortnight by sharing their assembly with the whole school.
Fairtrade Fortnight
What is it?
Fairtrade Fortnight this year runs from 21 February to 6 March 2022
For two weeks each year at the end of February and start of March, thousands of individuals, companies and groups across the UK come together to share the stories of the people who grow our food and drinks, mine our gold and who grow the cotton in our clothes, people who are often exploited and underpaid.
Since last Fairtrade Fortnight we have seen the G7 and COP26 take place. Over 33,000 campaigners joined 1.8m Fairtrade farmers and workers in backing the Be Fair With Your Climate Promise challenge to world leaders at the UN COP26 summit.
Well done P7,you certainly made us think about the choices we can make.
It was World Book Day on Thursday and we listened to an author read some of his books and share some fun activities.
Loving the costume!!!!
