P2/1 have been celebrating all things Scottish during Collaboration Time this week. We introduced the nursery class to ceilidh dancing by demonstrating the Gay Gordons that we have been learning in PE. Then Primary Ones and Nursery children set off to explore Scottish traditions – more dancing, Saltires created from collage and from play dough, tartan weaving with fabrics and paper, and admiring the tradition kilt worn by our friend Buddy the Bear. Meanwhile the Primary Twos researched Saint Andrew, taking notes about when and why he became Scotland’s patron Saint. They gave a very informative presentation to the younger children to wrap up the afternoon. We can’t wait for Friday’s school ceilidh to put our learning into action!

P7 visited Whitburn Academy this week for a day of STEM learning. We took part in workshops run by different employers who use STEM as part of their jobs. We also celebrated Book Week Scotland. We took part in a Kahoot! to test our book related knowledge, we created our own book covers for our debut novels and watched one of our favourite Scottish Authors Ross MacKenzie, author of the Nowhere Emporium talk about his books on Authors Live.

A lovely, cosy movie morning for our winning house group. Well done to the blue house group who earned the most house tokens in term one and selected a movie day as their reward! Keep on showing our school values to earn more house points!

P3/2 and P2/1 braved the cold and set off on an exciting bear hunt adventure! Using our story stepping stones, we carefully sequenced each part of the story, making sure the events were in the correct order. We searched high and low on a scavenger hunt, explored each part of the story using musical instruments to create music for our bear hunt chant. And after all out hard work… we finally found the bear!