Welcome back to our blog!

This week in Primary 7 we found out all about Staying Safe online. We had an assembly on ‘Safe Internet Use’. We also joined a Collaborative Skpe event where other schools talked about  how to stay safe online.  Then we created our own safe internet pledges.  We have worked hard to complete lots of work this week.

• In Literacy we have carried out lots of research on the life of Anne Frank. We then choose whether we wanted to write a diary recount or a biographical recount on her life.
• In Maths we found out about improper and mixed fractions, we also found out how to add fractions.
• We enjoyed playing Sumdog on the app on our ipads to reinforce our Maths Strategies
• In Health and Well-Being we found out about the Skeletal System by completing challenges outside.
• In topic we investigated propaganda and how it was used to influence people during the war. We created propaganda posters.

Thanks to all who attended our Burns’ Celebration on Friday.

We enjoyed our performances and wearing tartan to school!

We had a fantastic time this week making snowmen!

Thanks to all those who wore their slippers and brought in a donation .

Well done , thanks to your help we were able to send  £264 to the homeless at Christmas.

This week primary 2 have been learning the ‘i-e’ sound.  We have been writing a description of our favourite toy using adjectives.  In maths we have been partitioning numbers within 100 and writing and making addition sums within 20.  We have been continuing with our nativity practice and learning our Christmas song to perform to the school community in December.

As it’s Poppy Week, some of our Master Gardener pupils and some new members of gardening gang had a look at our tyre planter full of poppies and we talked about the real flowers which inspired the paper symbols. Some of the pupils then planted tulip bulbs in our tyre planters so we’re hoping for a beautiful display in spring! And the others helped plant some flag iris and marsh marigold in our new wetland patch – parents dug the planter out and lined it with plastic this week to make the area around our little pond a boggy spot which we will fill with wetland plants, learn about the importance of wetlands to the environment – and perhaps even attract some wetland wildlife come spring!

This week gardening gang adult helpers painted the raised veg beds and put coloured gravel in the shapes on the ground – with the new chippings down it’s all looking very smart, do have a walk past and have a look.