Rannoch Class have had a wonderfully busy and exciting week as we celebrated Book Week Scotland. Our learners explored stories in lots of sensory and meaningful ways, with activities designed to support communication, curiosity and confidence. 📚

We set up a range of sensory stations, including numbers and shapes trays filled with textured materials to encourage hands-on learning. The children enjoyed sorting, matching and exploring at their own pace, using concrete materials to help build early numeracy skills.

Outdoors, the class had great fun in the snow! We made the most of the winter weather with sledding, exploring the sensory feel of snow, and taking part in outdoor learning linked to our story themes. The fresh air and movement supported regulation and added lots of smiles to our week. 🍃🪾🍂

In PE, pupils took part in activities that focused on balance, coordination and turn-taking, with adapted stations to ensure everyone could join in successfully. 🏃

Art we created our Christmas Art for the fair next week. 🎨

It’s been a fantastic week full of stories, sensory play and active learning. Well done, Rannoch Class

Last week we celebrated Book Week with lots of exciting activities. We took part in a whole school book swap, and our parents joined us for cosy hot chocolate, biscuits and lots of fun Read, Write, Count activities🍪📚. Primary 3 also had great fun creating book characters from potatoes and joined the school to create a reading river! On Friday, we finished the week by recreating covers of our favourite books. We have had a wonderful week of reading, fun activities and sharing our favourite stories.

Primary 5 are enjoying  a fantastic week celebrating Book Week Scotland! We started with a lovely visit to the library where everyone had the chance to browse, and chat about their favourite stories. Back in school, we held a fun book swap, giving pupils the opportunity to discover new authors and genres through books shared by the entire school.

One of the week’s highlights was our creative art session, where the children painted story characters onto potatoes! Their imaginations ran wild and the results were wonderfully unique

Tomorrow, we are excited to join the whole school for our Reading River—a special chance for everyone to come together and share the joy of reading. We can’t wait!

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We’ve had a fantastic few weeks full of hands-on learning, sensory exploration, and Halloween celebrations!

✨ Sensory Play and Literacy

Our learners have been enjoying foam play while exploring the sounds ‘m’ and ‘a’. The soft, bubbly texture made it fun to form letters, trace shapes, and listen for the sounds in words. Sensory play helps our pupils engage with learning in a calm, enjoyable way — and there were lots of smiles and messy hands!

🔺 Shapes in Numeracy

In maths, we’ve been practising recognising and naming shapes using concrete materials such as blocks, puzzles, and sorting toys. The children loved building towers, matching shapes, and discovering which ones roll or stack. These activities help develop early numeracy skills while keeping learning active and playful.

🌳 Outdoor and Sensory Movement

We’ve also spent time in the outdoor area and sensory room, giving learners opportunities to move, regulate, and explore different textures and sounds. Outdoor P.E. sessions have been full of energy and laughter, while the sensory room offered a peaceful space for calm time afterwards.

🎃 Halloween Fun!

To finish off the week last week, we celebrated with our Halloween parties — and they were a huge success! Everyone enjoyed dressing up, dancing, and joining in with spooky-themed games and sensory activities. It was a wonderful way to bring integrate classes together and celebrate in a fun, inclusive way.

We’re so proud of how engaged and happy our learners have been — it’s been a brilliant balance of fun, movement, and learning!

This week in primary 7 we have been working on our house captain speeches and polling stations for voting! We have also been working on the videos that where shown yesterday in classes! In math we have been working on long division and we are doing excellent!! In spelling we are doing long words that are are getting a bit harder each time! In outdoor learning we are doing shelters for animals making our names out of leafs and more things in the woods and we are also making leaf drawings!! Our topic in class is Democracy and dictatorship along with politics.

thanks ML