This week has been full of fun filled learning; we ended last week with some wet weather so were not able to go outside for our outdoor learning session. Instead Mr Reed took us to the hall and provided us with various bits of equipment which we used to design our own playground games. Mr Reed allowed us the opportunity to share with the rest of the class what we had been working on as well as play our games.

During our topic sessions we have been learning about one of Mr Reed’s favourite myths, Theseus and the Minotaur. We have been learning the story and practising retelling it through remembering the key events.

During our Science lesson we were making observing how skittles dissolve in water and predicting which colours dissolve best. The lesson was great fun and created some fantastic results. We did end up with a few sweets which we were able to eat after school.

Our art work continues to focus on Henri Rousseau, this week we were collecting grass, leaves and twigs and then creating our own picture which we then attempted to draw.

Primary 6

Welcome back to what I can promise will be a wonderful year. We have so many new and exciting things planned for the children and I am sure as the days go on you will get to hear about some of what we have been discussing in class. Chatting with many of the children over the last couple of days it is evident that a good holiday was had by all.

Knowing the children well has allowed us to get stuck into our learning from day one, we have already started our topic and introduced our focus for art which the children seem really excited about.

I look forward to seeing many of you at our meet the teacher session on the 12th September where I will be able to share with you in more depth the areas that we plan to cover this year.

Mr Reed

In Primary 6 this week we;

• Enjoyed a visit to West Lothian College. We got to participate in lots of classes which included media, childhood practise, social care, hairdressing and computing
• We explored the importance of a problem in a story and how we build up to this. We then started to write own imaginative stories for the Night Zoo.
• We explored the rules of division which will help us work out whether a number can be shared equally.
• We created beautiful art pieces of Mary, Queen of Scots, using enlargement and tone.
• We developed visualisation skills and inference skills, creating a picture of Mrs Pratchett, by reading descriptions.
• We had a lesson from Primary 3, who taught us about our local town.