Primary 1 really enjoyed end of term activities this week. We made decorations and placemats for our party.
On Thursday we enjoyed a Movie and our Christmas Party. We played party games, danced and snacked! We had a special visitor come to our party too.
Mrs Forbes and Mrs Murdoch would like to thank you for our lovely gifts and wish you Happy Holidays! See you next year!
It has been a very busy couple of weeks in P2 with lots of activities going on. We have been looking at division through sharing using playdoh to help us. We have had a visit from an author to read some of his books to us as well. We started looking at measuring and measured the elves using a ruler and then put them into height order. We have also been learning how to say a festive phrase in different languages as well. We all very much enjoyed our Christmas party and had lots of fun and snacks.We hope you all have a lovely holiday and we will see you again in January. 
Our 1+2 Languages ambassadors have done a great job of promoting languages this term across the school. They suggested having a Languages ‘Advent Calendar’ where every day in December classes would learn how to say ‘Merry Christmas’ in a different language. All of our pupils really loved doing this and it gave them a chance to share the different languages spoken at home by many of our children and their families. We also learned a lot about different cultures and customs across the world at this time of year. Here are some children from Mrs Turner’s class enjoying their daily dose of languages!
Yesterday Primary 4 pupils took part in their Christmas party. We had games, dancing and lots of delicious snacks. We had a lovely morning all together.
Primary 1 have had a very exciting week. As well as continuing to learn new sounds, stretching out words to help us write words and learning and playing with 2D shapes, we had a visit from a local author and performed our Nativity Play!
When the author visited us we listened to 3 stories and had the opportunity to ask lots of questions.
On Thursday we performed our nativity; Baarmy Bethlehem to the whole school. Our first audience! Then today was our show. We loved being on the stage!
Eoin and Dan have had a lovely few weeks at the Five Sisters Zoo. We saw lots of animals, and even got to feed some. We have learned a lot about the animals and their habitats.
The Hive children have been getting very excited about Christmas. Our Writing lesson was writing a letter to Santa. We used the Smyths toy magazine for inspiration and ideas. Fingers crossed we get what we asked for!!
As we complete our Social Studies context on Natural Disasters this seemed a good opportunity to share some of our displays and the fantastic work we did across the curriculum linking to this particular topic. We linked our Literacy by creating a diary entry where we used the features of the genre. We worked on our up scaled vocabulary choices so the reader could really imagine being immersed in our chosen disaster! We also wrote explanations, describing how and why different disasters happen.
As you can see we also linked our learning to our ICT outcomes by creating a PowerPoint at the start of our context highlighting what we already knew about Natural Disasters and how we would like to take our learning forward, putting the class at the centre of their learning and demonstrating pupil agency, ownership of the context. Finally, we also looked at our outcomes for Art when completing pencil drawings of a particular disaster, paying particular attention to detail.
As well as linking different curriculum outcomes to our context we were also always mindful to remember our skillset, highlighting which ones linked most closely to a particular task.
Much like a tiny, pocket-sized computer, the micro:bit encourages us to learn basic coding and programming skills to prepare us for today’s tech-savvy world. We were having great fun with coding using Micro:Bits. We made some flashing animations and then had a turn at coding the game ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’.
I can explore core programming language concepts in appropriate technical language TCH2-14a
Our very own Erynn in P7/6 was lucky enough to audition for and get a part in the CBBC Live Saturday Mash up!
Her and her mum went on the show and had to sing songs and finish the lyrics or get slimed! Erynn won the show and even got a prize!
We are very proud of you Erynn, congratulations!
