This week in Primary 6 we have been continuing our exploration of our solar system. Everybody within primary six has chosen their favourite planet to research and teach the rest of the class about. We have all enjoyed finding facts about our chosen planet as well as listening to others in our class teach us about their planets. We have only just started presenting our findings but the standard so far has been excellent, it will be interesting to see what more we can learn next week.

We were all excited for the September weekend. Enjoy your weekend everybody.

There was some wonderful discussion going on during Building Thinking classrooms this week. We saw lots of different strategies being implemented, some successful, some not quite! But it’s the journey that’s important here, not the destination!

We have enjoyed learning a little bit about the Five Sisters and why they are there. We used them as inspiration for our descriptive writing.
Have a lovely long weekend.

This week Primary 3 have been creating a timeline for Ancient Egypt by travelling in our very own Time Machine! We visited the year most of us were born, 2019,  before a whistle stop tour of WWII, the Victorian Era, the Vikings and Ancient Greece and Rome before landing in Ancient Egypt over 3000 years ago.

We also created beautiful and ornate Egyptian collars with Mrs Ferguson as part of our IDL topic.

In French we have been playing a board game and asking each other “Ca va?” and trying our best to respond in French by saying how we are feeling.

We all had our first successful session within our school Committees this week and we look forward to meeting each month to suggest improvements, experience leadership roles as well as to represent pupil voices in our chosen area.

We continued to improve our descriptive writing where we had the opportunity to write about a friend using lots of ambitious vocabulary and interesting adjectives. Mrs Topping was very impressed with the pieces of writing we produced. Well done Primary 3!!

This week in Nurture, the learners showed a real interest in the story of Pinocchio! We enjoyed exploring the story together and had some fantastic discussions and opportunities to share our thoughts about the importance of telling the truth and how this links to our school values.

 Learners were encouraged to communicate their ideas in ways that work best for them, including through talking, visuals, gestures and other forms of communication. We then got creative and made our very own Pinocchio artwork, complete with an extendable nose! 🎨👃

It was lovely to see everyone engaging with the story in their own way and having fun bringing Pinocchio to life!

P5 had an awesome visit to Xcite swimming pool today. They really enjoyed their assessment and had plenty of time for trying out the swimming noodles and having fun! Everyone really enjoyed it and wished they could go back sooon! Staff said they were a lovely class to work with. Well done P5!

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