What a lovely trip we all had to see Mother Goose in Panto yesterday. For some of us it was our first experience of a Christmas Panto.

We had lots of fun and provided lots of audience participation. Everyone was a bit exhausted afterwords so to wake up we had a quick play in the snow before it was time to go home.

In primary 4 this week we have been working on dividing with remainders in maths. We have found this challenging but we have all tried our very best using our perseverance. We worked together with our learning partners to solve division word problems.

In literacy we have been working on our joined up handwriting, which is coming along beautifully, we have also been continuing to learn  different spelling pattern and applying this to our reading and spelling.

In RE we have had a focus on Advent and why this is a important time of year in the church calendar.

We have also been practicing our hymns that we will perform at the Primary 4-7 Christmas Carol concert. We hope to see lots of you there on the 22nd of December to watch us perform.

At outdoor learning this week we were working with tools, we learned how to use a saw safely and we all had a turn at sawing a disk of wood off a branch. We then used a hand drill to make a hole in the disk so we can turn here into Christmas 🎄 decorations. We all enjoyed having the extra responsibility of using tools  and felt proud that we managed to all make a disk.

Our class elf, Sugar has been causing lots of fun in the classroom and I am sure next week he will continue to bring us some Christmas cheer.

In craft club this week we made elf cards with our handprints. We had so much fun painting with our hands, we will bring them home as soon as they dry.

We also made Christmas Angels. This took a lot of concentration but everyone who wanted to make one tried their best and showed good perseverance. They will all look beautiful once they dry.

We also had lots of opportunities to play! We had playdough, building blocks, construction toys, colouring in and much more! The Christmas music was playing and some of us even has a little dance.

See you all next week for the last week of Christmas Craft Club.

Everyone in Primary 4 have super excited this week!
Our Elf returned to the classroom and brought us lots of ingredients to make his favourite Christmas Cookies. We have all made a bag of cookies each to sell at the School Christmas Fayre tomorrow.

We have also made some lovely tree decorations, Christmas stockings and calendars 📆 for 2023 🎉 We hope to see you all there tomorrow.

Primary 5 challenged us to try out there newly designed board games,  and provide them with purposeful feedback. We had so much fun playing the games!

We all enjoyed participating in the first mass of advent. We had talked about the importance of the advent wreath on the Altar. We are aiming to spread as much hope, joy, peace and love through advent.

Apologies as we forgot to update our photos from our campfire 🔥 and story telling photos from last week. We had a great time sharing our stories and making s’mores. Thank you for coming.

We had another fun week at Christmas Craft club.

We made concertina Christmas trees. Concentrating hard we folded them and then decorated them with sequence.

Lots of us made paperchain snowmen, linking the paper together to build our snowmen.

Lego, playdough and colouring in Christmas themed pictures was also lots of fun! We are looking forward to next weeks club!

It was a very busy week in Primary 4, we had book week and Catholic Education week.

For book week we have all become authors making our  very own fiction books. We look forward to sharing these with you at our bonfire day!

For Catholic Education week , all Catholic Schools across Scotland are celebrate at the same time.  The theme for this special week is Communion Participation, Mission.

Communion – We travel towards God together.

Participation – We join in at Mass.

Mission – We tell others about God’s Word.

This week

we looked at how we can participate in Mass and who we celebrate mass with, in school or at home. The children  shared their personal stories about going to Mass with their families, or at school.  They then made models of churches and who they would take to Mass.

It was a very wet outdoor learning session this week but we all enjoyed being out and connecting with nature. We talked about the trees 🌳 🌲 in our woodland area and where they came from. How some are native to Scotland and some actually came with the Vikings ( our class topic). We played a great game of Viking Raiders!

We had a fantastic first week at outdoor learning- despite the weather! We all love being outside and working on different types of challenges.

We listened respectfully during the Primary 6 Remembrance assembly and had good discussions in class about why it is important to remember the soldiers. In class we made some beautiful art pieces and read poems.