During Art this week we created witch decorations for our Halloween 🎃 party, we made scary witches 🧙

We have been using pumpkins 🎃 in class to to work on our fine motor skills, we have loved making patterns on the pumpkins and using tools.

Working on our meta skills we have started Building Thinking Classrooms in our classroom, this involves working together to solve a problem. We  all did very well working in randomly selected groups.

During outdoor learning we went up to the woods and made magic wand’s for Halloween . We talked about rhyming words for spells and how we could use things from nature to decorate.

We hope everyone has a lovely Autumn break 😀

In Primary 1 we have all been enjoying building, building with bricks, building with LEGO, building with boxes, we love creating things and decided that we would like to build with our Primary 7 buddies.

We have been learning all about our bodies and this week we were luck to have Dexter the Dentist Dragon 🐉 visit us. He showed us how to correctly clean our teeth 🦷. He was very  impressed with our teeth brushing at home.

During outdoor learning we took some animals up to the woodland area. Our job was to make a home for them, we all did very well. We then listened to a story about Spiders 🕷️.

On Friday we enjoyed fun 31 with Primary 2, some of us played bingo together.

Have a lovely

To kick start our week in Primary 1 we enjoyed a lovely session with our Primary 7 buddies. We made paper plate crafts. We had to work with our buddies to decide on what we wanted to do before making lots of lovely creations.

On Thursday Primary 1 walked up to the local woodland area where we thought about our senses. Together with Primary 2 we completed a survey, we had to think about what we could see 👀 hear 👂 and smell 👃. We had lots of fun enjoying nature.

We have all been enjoying building with the blocks, Lego and boxes, we have made some amazing creations.

On Friday we were all very respectful when attending the

Primary 1 have been learning about the. Hangers in the seasons and what happens when we move from summer to autumn 🍂.

We had a lovely local walk where we collected fallen leaves 🍂. We took them back to the classroom to press them before turning them into artwork…watch this space.

We then had a lovely trip to the park with Primary 2. We loved playing on the equipment with our friends.

On Friday we all enjoyed our Big Breakfast 🥞 and Sharing our Learning with some of our adults. We loved showing the adults what we have been learning.

Have a lovely weekend 😊

Primary 1 enjoyed a lovely buddy session this week, we listened to “What We’ll Build” by Oliver Jeffers. We then then built things in our classroom with our buddies.

In RE this week we discussed how we use our hands to pray 🙏 and thought about who we talk to when we pray. We used this to create beautiful praying hands pictures.

On Thursday we enjoyed our outdoor learning session in the school garden, 🪴 we loved digging for treasure and found lots of potatoes 🥔.  Everyone has agreed that we would love to clean them and make something with them.

Have a lovely weekend 😊

Another fantastic week of learning in Primary 1. A firm favourite this  week has been PE, we all enjoy having space to run around, work together and playing games.

We explored friendships this week, what makes a good friend and how we are a good friend, after talking about this we then created images of ourselves and our friends. We are all very proud of them.

Everyone in Primary 1 is becoming more independent when it comes to making lunch choices, collecting their lunch as well as clearing it away before play. Lots of us are beginning to try new things and enjoying having choices.

On Friday we participated in our first School Mass, we were all very respectful and sang our hearts ♥️ out.

Have a lovely weekend ☺️

Primary 1 have been looking 👀 at themselves to create a Primary 1 passports all about them. This week we focused on our eyes, we enjoyed looking at each others eyes to see all the different colours.

During the week we have enjoyed our PE sessions and getting outside to work on our skills. We played games and spent some time in the trim trail working on our balance and coordination.

Everyone has been doing very well adjusting to Primary 1, learning the school values and the routines of school, Miss Stenhouse is very proud of everyone’s efforts..

Have a lovely weekend 😀

Primary 1 have completed their first full week of school and completed  lots of learning.
on Monday our buddies read us stories, we love spending time with our buddies.

During PE our buddies also joined us, we had lots of fun and got to use the giant parachute.

We have all enjoyed lots of arts and craft as well as some messy play.

Our class topic is All About Me and we created lovely family portraits which are now on the class wall. Everyone loved talking about their families.

We have also been learning sounds and numbers this week and Miss Stenhouse is very proud of everyone’s efforts.

we are looking forward to another week of learning. Have a lovely weekend ☺️