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P1a News

We’ve had a really busy week in P1a.

In Maths we have been continuing to learn about time and have been reading o’clock and half past times on digital and analogue clocks.

Our new sound this week was ‘ai’ and we made a list of ‘ai’ words, but soon realised that this sound can be written differently e.g bear, whale etc. We also tried to make words that rhyme and used magnets and flip charts to make rhyming word families.

On Wednesday we had our sharing the learning afternoon. Thank you to all the parents and carers who were able to come along. We had a great time trying out all of the senses activities. We had smelling pots to guess the smell, tasting activities to identify sweet, sour, bitter and salty, shakers to make for the sense of hearing, fun glasses to design for sight and lots of different textures to stick onto a huge hand for the sense of touch. It was agreed afterwards that the tasting one was the best!

Sportshall East of Scotland Regional Finals

We are so proud of our Sportshall Athletics team, who competed at the East of Scotland Regional Final on Tuesday. The team gave it their all and finished 7th on the leader board. All of the pupils were a credit to the school. Well done everyone!

Red Nose Day 2023

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

Compass Directions

This week we have been learning about using a compass and giving directions. We each made a compass and gave directions to our partner to move them around the class. As it was such a nice day we took our learning outside and directed our partner around the playground. We had to make sure to we used the correct vocabulary.

P6 Sharing the Learning

We would like to thank everyone who came to our Sharing the Learning on Wednesday. It was great to hear the class talking with such confidence and expertise about their particular Station activity. Thanks to all those who were brave enough to try our Victorian assessment,Easter egg prizes have been dispatched!

P7 Raffle!

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 (18^th April) in school, they are £2.50 a strip. Good luck and thank you for the support.

Working and Playing hard in and around The Hive

We have had another very busy and successful term in The Hive. The children have been working hard on their Literacy, Numeracy and social skills in a variety of different ways.

Henry enjoyed using our numicon materials to help him enhance his addition and subtraction skills.

Kayden and Aria were focusing on times tables. They asked each other a times tables question and the answer was hidden in the sand!

Eoin was very focussed when learning his tricky words, as they were hidden in a wordsearch.

Alex and Glen were developing their fine and gross motor skills by using bikes and scooters in the playground. They were learning how to balance as well as sharing and taking turns.