During book week we took part in lots of great activities. We received visits from several secret readers. We went to the library and got our Read, Write, Count bags and a book from the Queen. We also listened to stories and read with each other. We took part in the Book Week bookmark competition by drawing our favourite animals character from a book. It has been a brilliant week.
P2/1 have had a super Book Week. We’ve really enjoyed receiving our Bookbug bags (in P1) and our Read Write and Count bags (in P2). We were excited to have our parents and carers join us the school library! We loved hearing Mrs Robertson read us a story (and we also loved the juice and biscuits).
‘Scaredy Bat’ by Jonathan Meres inspired us to make our own bats. We like how they hang upside down on our washing line.
‘The Perfect Fit’ by Naomi Jones has lots of different 2d shapes. We made 2d shape pictures with our partners.
We had lots of fun meeting our ‘secret readers’! Thank you so much to the parents who came into our class and read to us. We loved listening to some of our favourite stories and some new ones too.
This week is Scottish book week. We discussed our favourite types of books and a common theme was Space! In Maths this week we have been learning about money. We have been recognising and adding the value of coins, and some of us managed to work out change too! We linked our maths with our book week chats and tried to work out how much it would cost us to go into Space. We then did some role play and acted out us being in a space rocket.
We love a challenge in P3B! This morning, we took part in a new learning activity to practise reading and writing our Fry’s words. We learned how to create a word search. We each created our own word search, however; we worked with a partner and Miss Marra saw lots of great teamwork. In Smart Start tomorrow, we are going to ask another group to find the words. We enjoyed our learning and would like to do more word searches to practise reading and writing our words.
Article 13: We have the right to find out things and share what we think with others.
This week Primary 1 have been learning all about 2D shape. We named the shapes and used them to make shape pictures. Some of us went outside for a Shape Hunt and we used things we found to create our own shapes. Others took turns to use the feely bag, and, without looking, describe what the shapes were.
We continue to learn new sounds, this week o and u. We have also been practising our Fry’s words. Please remember to return reading books on Thursdays. We have a limited number of books and we want everyone to be able to bring a book home weekly.
Our science learning in class is all about the weather and we have been using symbols to record the weather. On Thursdays Mrs Beattie is in class for science and children have been learning about night and day. This week they made sundials.
Primary 5 and Mrs Campbell were delighted to welcome Alan Hamilton into school on Thursday afternoon. Alan has previously been a regular visitor to our school, working with P6s and P7s on their World War IDL contexts. He is a mine of information about WW1, WW2 and everything in between!
Alan came to speak to Primary 5 about Remembrance and gave us a real insight into the life of a soldier, from rations and trench foot to horse dung and ‘sweet pea mixture’ (ask your kids!). He brought along his own medals and some interesting artefacts to show us and also very kindly left us copies of his own sketches which he made whilst serving in Iraq.
The pupils were highly engaged in this session and understandably had many questions which Alan did his best to answer!
Our new phonics sound in Literacy this week is the “sh” sound. This morning, we had the opportunity to be word detectives to help us spell “sh” words. We worked with our partner to spell “sh” words using the letters written on the sticky notes. We challenged ourselves and some of even used extra letters to extend our words.
We were also very excited to work in randomised groups for the first time. This means we didn’t choose our partner and Miss Marra didn’t choose our partner either. All our names are in a tub, and we picked a name card out. The name on the card was our partner. It was exciting to have a surprise when we found out who we were going to be working with. We were all engaged in our learning and on task. Miss Marra was very proud of us all.
Article 13: We have the right to find out things and share what we think with others.
Lucas was very proud of himself for creating the word “shrimp.” 
Something strange was in our mystery box this morning. A few of us tried to guess. Some said a number 2, which was quite a good guess. Others couldn’t find anything. After lots of discussion round what sort of shape it was, Harris worked out it was a question mark. We looked at the shape then tried to draw a few ourselves. We were allowed to draw it on our desks!! Then we thought about words that could be used at the start of a question. We wrote them on our desks too and then discussed them as a class. Next we had to think of questions we could ask, using these words.
There was a lot of learning and a lot of fun based around Halloween. We did art and craft activities, Halloween wordsearches and dot to dots, used our measuring skills to make icing for our Halloween biscuits and also dressed up!
The primary one and two pupils had a super spooky time yesterday at our Clay After School club.
They were able to paint the wonderful creations they had made the week before. There were some great Halloween figures and objects, including an orange pumpkin and several black bats and cats. We also had some stars, a tiny elephant and a bird’s nest with little eggs.
Fantastic work everyone! 
I wonder what we will make next week?
Article 29 You have the right to develop your talents.
