Author: Mrs Stephens

P7/6 have been working on designing a ‘maths garden’ as part of our work on the Levenseat award this year. We have drawn some plans and received some great donations that will help us plan some wonderful maths activities to deliver to our friends in the younger classes. We are getting to work on making resources for our garden next week and will be putting those collaboration and communication skills from our toolkit to good use!

P7/6 had a great time at Aberdour on Wednesday. We played on the sand showing off that toolkit skill of collaboration and some of us were even brave enough to have a paddle in the water too. We have been learning about description in writing and today we wrote a descriptive recount about our day at Aberdour using our class describing bubble to help us with adjectives.

P7/6 had a great time today learning outdoors with Rob from ‘Kids Gone Wild’. We evaluated how confident we felt about learning outdoors before our session today and will return to our ratings after the next session to see how our confidence has grown. We problem solved, collaborated, used our critical thinking skills and the ever important school value, perseverance!

P5/4 had lots of fun celebrating World Book Day. We took part in the ‘Footy and Booky Quiz’ live online, we had a cosy ERIC time with some hot chocolate and biscuits. We played the game ‘First Page Fire’ where we rated a few books after only reading their first page. We used our origami skills to make book recommendation fortune tellers to recommend books to our friends. We also made some bookmarks too!

P5/4 have had a great first week back at school. We have begun our book study on ‘The Wilderness War’ by Julia Green, where Noah and his friends try to save ‘the wilderness’ from being used as land for housebuilding. So far we have learned about native trees, risk assessment, used our reciprocal reading strategies to help us answer questions on the book and held a debate. The motion for our debate involved housebuilding on our own ‘wilderness’ in Easter Longridge Wood. There was some great skills on show and some compelling arguments from both sides ending with a vote.