Category: Whole School

We would like to tell you what we have enjoyed learning last week:

‘I enjoyed using ambitious openers in my writing.’ Emma

‘ I enjoyed converting between 12 hour analogue times and 24 hour digital times in maths.’ James

‘ I enjoyed applying our learning in time differences by making up our own questions for the group.’ Katie

‘ I enjoyed developing my readings skills by predicting what I thought would happen in my new book ‘Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.’ Erin S

On Friday, Miss McLaughlin and Mrs Ross took their group for some outdoor fun!

We gathered different natural items (leaves, stones, shells) and turned them into a masterpiece by the library! Can you guess who we made…?

At Club wild we have been making the most of the treasures that autumn brings.

The beginning of September brought a bounty of hedgerow fruits. We made jam with the last of the wild raspberries and the first of the brambles along with plums and apples of the orchard and trees in the school grounds. Look out for our tasty jam on sale at the Christmas fayre.

The magnificent purple of the brambles that stained our fingers as we picked also gave us dye to have a go at natural tie-dyeing. We got dark greens from nettles and yellows from turmeric to dye our t-shirts and bags. What amazing colours and patterns.

September also brings seeds shaking, popping and floating. We have collected and dried wild flower seeds that can be sown next year.

October brings beautiful colours as the leaves change colour and fall to the ground. We learnt about this autumn leaf fall, called senescence. Leaves that we collected and pressed were arranged in a frame and hung in the dinner hall. When they catch the autumn sunshine the amazing range of colours shine through.

For Spooky Halloween, Mr Bones was created from collected twigs, as we learned about the different bones in our bodies.

Join us soon for more autumn adventures soon.

Club Wild, Mrs Young & Sarah-Jane

Well done! You won a medal at the Addiewell fun run this weekend. We are so proud of you!

We would like to share with you some of our learning during our Jacobite topic.

On our school trip we got to experience what life was like as a Jacobite. We used these experiences in drama when we were creating improvised dramas.

We learned the Jacobites used targes to protect them when they were in battle. We designed and created our own targes.

We developed our skills in non fiction reading and learned to skim, scan and read the text closer to find facts. We then worked in groups to use the internet to research the Stuarts family tree.

We developed our literacy skills by writing a diary entry of a Jacobite soldier.

Thank you

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Today we went wild for the World Wildlife Fund, raising a total of £110 to help protect endangered animals around the world. Well done everyone!