We have been experimenting with our new loom frames in class. We like to choose the colours and textures of each thread. It’s great for our fine motor skills too.
We’ve been learning about the Coronation and have been listening to facts read by our Reading Buddies. We made coronation bookmarks.
We were also using our creative skills to make fantastic crowns fit for a king!
Last weekend Jakson in Primary 5 qualified for the Motocross British Championship, an amazing achievement for such a young rider. We are all incredibly proud of Jakson and we look forward to seeing what the future holds for him as he continues to compete in this exciting sport. Well done, Jakson!
Fw_ Jakson Spain Training Camp 
This week we have been working on counting back from 100. We had to share our strategy with the rest of the class. We then used the strategy to work out lots of different equations. Next we tried using the same strategy when the number was lower than 100. We worked out that the same strategy worked. Lots of problem solving this week!!
We raised a fantastic total of £315.13 for Red Nose Day on 17th March.
A huge thank you to everyone for your generous donations and for taking part so enthusiastically in ‘wearing red from toes to head’!
Thank you also to the Primary 5 pupils who helped raise awareness of the event around the school, great job!
Mrs Campbell & Primary 5
Our Primary 7 pupils have been busy! They used their persuasive writing skills to contact businesses to help fundraise for our leavers’ hoodies. We were overwhelmed with the response, please have a look through some of the incredible prizes. Pupils will be selling raffle tickets from tomorrow (18th April) in school, they are £2.50 a strip. Good luck and thank you for the support.
This week we have been looking at all the resources we have and reminding ourselves how we can use these in our learning.
We have been learning about Ancient Egyptians and drew pictures of the Pharaoh Tutankhamen. He became Pharaoh when he was eight years old and died when he was eighteen. We researched and recorded our facts on our Seesaw accounts.
This week we have been learning our new sound ‘ng’ and have been writing some descriptions. We’ve been trying really hard to remember capitals, finger spaces and full stops when writing sentences, and some of us have been using joining words too.
We are continuing to explore Our Five Senses and have had fun playing the feely bag game . We used lots of vocabulary to describe the textures we felt e.g smooth, rough, bumpy, hard, squishy, soft. We also learned about our sense of smell and found out that some smells can act as a warning eg. food can smell off, so don’t eat it .
“If you smell smoke, that’s a warning. There could be a fire and you need to get out.” – Heather
In Maths we’ve been looking at o’clock times on analogue and digital clocks. We’ve played some bingo games and have even made some of our own clocks.
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.
This week we have been learning about what jewellery was worn by Ancient Egyptians. We found out that both men and women wore necklaces, bracelets and earrings. We started to create our own Ancient Egyptian necklaces.
