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P7 are having a smashing time at Lockerbie Manor, in spite of the weather.  Lots of fun and adventures.  Mrs Stewart and Mrs Donnelly are off to visit them today and will share another update tomorrow.

Red Nose Day is almost upon us once more and we are asking pupils to do their bit by ‘Wearing Red From Toes to Head’ this Friday,17th March. Please try to wear your red, (even if it’s just socks!) and bring a donation if you can – all money raised will go directly to help with issues such as mental health, child poverty and homelessness. Thank you from Mrs Campbell and Primary  5

As part of our pupil led exploratory work recently, the pupils had agency to create and code an angle in whatever way they wanted to. Some coded their angles on Micro:bits, some chose to create dances with angles through Code.org (Dance Party) and some used Scratch.

Take a look at some of our creations below. The coding activity helped the pupils to use their innovation skills whilst deepening their mathematic understanding surrounding angles.

We also received a very exciting delivery of Binary Bots which we are using our skills to build in class, we can’t wait until they are completed.

We were lucky enough to have a visit from a coding specialist last week. Miss Gurung, from Edinburgh University sparked our creativity and critical thinking skills when she asked us to identify different popular dances through code.

We then had a chance to demonstrate the code through dancing and show off our moves.

The final part of the challenge was to create and code our own character to prepare for a dance off. We carried out the dance battle and voted for the winning team. Have a look at some of our dances and code below:

Even although it was a short week, we’ve had a very busy few days in P1.

We have learned our new sound ‘qu’ and have been practising our reading skills on Reading Wise. We have also been adding within ten using dominoes and ten frames for Numeracy.

We have continued to learn about toys and looked at some toys from the past. Many were made from metal, wood or cloth, unlike a lot of our plastic toys today.

We thought about which forces toys use to help them move. We found many  that use a push or pull force, in the classroom or outside.

Some of us also completed a STEAM challenge to design and make a game of our own – a marble maze using lego.

We were lucky to have a surprise judo session on Wednesday and had lots of fun learning new moves and working with partners on the mat.

Primary 5 and Primary 3 had a short but productive session together today where we shared texts using different media and platforms. Some pupils shared their allocated texts on Giglets, some used the Storytime Online QR codes to access books and some preferred good old paperbacks!

We are all looking forward to World Book Day next week where we hope to take part in lots more exciting reading activities.