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P1c One Planet Picnic – 27 Sept

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Today we enjoyed preparing our Scottish Cheddar cheese and Linlithgow apples grown in Iona’s garden for the One Planet Picnic. As you can see in the photographs we all took turns at cutting and putting the cheese and apples on the cocktail sticks.  Thank goodness we have been practising our fine motor skills over the last few weeks – we were all fantastic and no one got jabbed or stabbed! The best part however, was getting to eat  the snack at the picnic where we also had some Scottish oatcakes and some carrots which had been harvested from the school garden with a little help from Mrs Spori!

Unfortunately due to the weather the picnic was in the hall.

Here are some photographs of different activities that we have been doing over the last few weeks to help develop our fine motor skills.

 

 

 

Global Citizenship, International Education, Literacy, P1, Social Studies

P1a China topic activities – 28th February

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This term as well as learning about Scotland we have been learning about China too and as you will know this was the theme for our fantastic assembly.

We have  watched a video about primary schools in China and we saw that the children painted their numbers and this was something that we wanted to try.  However it wasn’t quite as easy as it looked on the video!

We also made a Chinese shape puzzle called a tangram.  It is made of 7 pieces that fit together but can also be used to make lots of other shapes and silhouettes but they must not overlap. Even though we cut up our own puzzles – only 2 of us could put them back together again! We did all persevere though and didn’t give up  or complain when we found it hard.  We have been talking a lot about growth mindset and this task was a good example of having to keep trying different ways and think positively.

Below is a link to an online tangram puzzle that you can try.

http://www.abcya.com/tangrams.htm

                

This week our story writing also had a Chinese theme.  We have noticed that lots of the stories we have been reading include dragons so decided to write our own dragon stories.  At the start of our writing lessons we always share our ideas with our elbow partners for 5 minutes.  We  have a special cat timer to let us know when the 5 minutes is up and we then share our ideas with the rest of the class before we draw our pictures and write our stories.

You will be able to read more of our stories in our jotters at the Parents’ meetings in March.

Global Citizenship, Music, P1, Scottish Culture

P1a Scottish Celebrations – 25th January

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This afternoon we got dressed up in tartan and held our very own special Scottish celebration.  We have learned how Scottish people all over the world remember Robert Burns today by holding Burns suppers. So we did something rather similar!  We had lots of Scottish music, Miss McDermott read the Selkirk Grace, Mrs Ritchie read the toast to the haggis (crisps) and we even had written our own toasts to the laddies and lassies! After our haggis crisps and shortbread snack we had lots of dancing which you can see on the video clips! Happy Burns Day everyone!

https://vimeo.com/252784962

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Achievements, Art, Classes, Community, Creativity, Curriculum, Digital Technology, Drama, Global Citizenship, Literacy, Numeracy, P7, Problem Solving, Scottish Culture, Social Studies, Thinking Skills

P7A Defenders in Action

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Well done to all the P7 pupils who took part in their mock trials this evening. They were confident, well-prepared, well-behaved and enthusiastic. We were impressed by their persuasive arguments and their cool, calm and collected approach under pressure. Here are a few snaps of P7A in their case against St Mary’s (Leith). JP

After School Clubs, Art, Creativity, Drama, French, Global Citizenship, Literacy, P3, P4

Film Club

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Our new film club has been up and running for a few weeks now and we’ve watched 3 very different film so far!

Our first was Beauty and the Beast, and it was interesting to compare it to the new version in cinemas.  Our second was The Lego Movie – a very different type of animation.  Our third movie was The Red Balloon – a French film from 1956.  For many of us, it was the first time we had watched a foreign film, and one that was so old.  It was really popular!