Susan Comrie and her husband Robert first came to our school through their charity work for Magale, a contact which was set up by Mrs Stachan. Mrs Comrie was overwhelmed by the generosity of the children and the community with the response to the Magale appeal she asked if she could come and volunteer. We were only too delighted to take her up on this kind offer. Mrs Comrie is a retired maths teacher and once a week we are lucky enough to have her helping with groups of children throughout the school. She is impressed with the enthusiasm the children have towards maths and she thoroughly enjoys her time here.
Primary 5
This week, Primary 5 have been exploring creation stories! We know that different people believe different things about how the world was created, so we discussed what we thought and looked at what some religions believed.
We read the Christian creation story and made it into a comic strip. Here are some examples of our work below.
We also learned that many religions believe that a God created the universe, but that Buddhists don’t believe that. They believe that the universe has always existed. We watched a clip explaining how Hindus believe that universe was created and found that to be a very different story! We found that Hindus believe God has three jobs (Creator, Carer and Destroyer) and that they think the Earth came from the petals of a lotus flower, which came from their God’s bellybutton! It is really interesting to see what different people believe and Miss McLaughlin was very impressed at how respectful we were about each other’s opinions.
Until next time…
Primary 5 & Miss M 
Families Learning Together
The leaflet describing the Families Learning Together – Sharing Learning programme for this year is now in the Our School – Useful Documents section of this blog. The first session is on Friday 7 October at 11am.
Primary 1/2
In Science this week, we have been learning all about the different materials things can be made from and the properties that they have.
We sorted items in the classroom by the material they were made from and we investigated which materials will float and which will sink at the water tray.
Below are some of things we discovered:
Lewis – ‘Stones sink.’
Jack – ‘You can get things made from fabric, wood, metal and plastic.’
Olivia – ‘Money sinks.’
Liam – ‘Toy cars are made from plastic. You can twist plastic.’
Aiden – ‘Some plastic things float but not heavy ones.’
Our next step is find out how different materials are used in the world and what purposes they are best suited for. We will then use what we have learned to design and create our own toy.
School Improvement Planning
Every year we produce a document to look back at the year and describe the progress we’ve made; this is our SSES (School Self Evaluation Summary). The SSES then helps us prepare our plans for the coming year and what we need to work on to continually improve; this is our SIP (School Improvement Plan).
I have uploaded this sessions full SSES and SIP to the blog in the section – Our School – Useful Documents. To make it easier to see at a glance we have created a one page summary of our SIP and I attach this below. It should give you an idea of the areas we are working to improve this session. All planned priorities are focussed on the over-arching aim of raising attainment for all learners.
Reflecting on our learning
Primary 4 chose a piece of work they were most pleased with this week. They had to look at it and think about why they were pleased with it and what could be a target for next time. Here are a few of our learners sharing their thoughts.
P6 Weekly Update
This has been a short but very active week for P6! On Wednesday we started hockey with Mrs Cullum in PE, on Thursday we had a whole school Daily Mile and on Friday we had basketball with Ms Pender in PE. Throughout all of this, we have been monitoring our breathing and heart rate to recognise how exercise affects our bodies. This links to our learning about the circulatory system in science.
A special mention to our cross country runners who have really been pushing themselves in the Daily Mile in preparation for their competition next week. Keep it up and good luck for Wednesday!
Mrs Cullum and P6
Primary 3
Jake – ” We learned how to say different animals in Spanish.”
Calum – “I learned how to say lion, red panda, owl and fish in Spanish.”
Aleisha – “We used a computer and the internet to find Spanish words. It was a Spanish dictionary. I have an English dictionary in my bag!”
Jessica – “We also used our writing and drawing skills.”
P7 Camp Information Evening
REMINDER:
There will be a short presentation and a chance to ask questions about this session’s P7 Transition Camp tonight (Thursday 22 September) at 6pm in the P7 classroom.
I look forward to seeing you there.
Steven Eagleson
Hands Up Scotland Survey
Primary 6 conducted the Hands up Scotland Survey and Sean Wood in Primary 6 has compiled the results. Primary 6 noticed that driving to school is very popular which surprised them since we live in a small village. They urge you to think about how you are travelling to school and make changes if possible. This will help our environment as well as reducing the amount of traffic around our school. Please see below for Sean’s results.
