Primary 3 have had a very busy and exciting start to the new term! Since returning after Christmas, we have been working hard, having fun and learning lots of new things across the curriculum.

 Scots Language and Scottish Traditions

We have been learning about the famous Scottish poet Robert Burns and exploring Scottish traditions such as tartan. We talked about the different colours and patterns in tartan and how they are made.

To link with our learning, we designed and created our very own Scottish kilts by weaving paper, they looked fantastic!

We also learned the famous Scottish poem “The Sair Finger” together as a class. Three very brave Primary 3 pupils even took part in the school finalist competition, we were so proud of them!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😊

Religious Education – The Sacrament of Reconciliation

In RE, we have been learning about the Sacrament of Reconciliation. We explored the different stages of the sacrament, listened to Bible stories and talked about why forgiveness is so important in our lives.

The children shared thoughtful ideas and showed great understanding during our discussions.✝️

 Our New Class Topic – Greyfriars Bobby

We have started a new class topic all about Greyfriars Bobby. We explored the story of Bobby and talked about the important themes of loyalty and friendship.

To bring the story to life, we incorporated drama into our learning by taking part in hot seating, where pupils acted in role as Greyfriars Bobby and answered questions from the class. This helped us to think deeply about Bobby’s feelings and experiences.

We also compared Edinburgh in the past and present and learned about some famous Edinburgh landmarks, such as the castle and Greyfriars Kirkyard.🐾

➗ Maths

In maths, we have been working hard on multiplication and have made great progress. We are now ready to move on to learning about division, well done Primary 3!🧠

 Outdoor Learning and Play

Of course, we have also had lots of opportunities to play and learn together. We especially love spending time in the outdoor classroom every Monday and outdoor learning every Thursday with Miss Nelson, where we explore, work as a team and enjoy being active outside.🍃

Primary 5 have had a busy and exciting start to the week!

On Monday and Tuesday, we began our STEM space project, focusing on improving our spatial reasoning skills. We took part in two fun, active and hands-on maths lessons where we explored axis, lines of symmetry and reflections.

In Religion, we learned about the Feast of St Brigid, which takes place on the 1st of February and links to Our Lady & St Brigid’s, our parish church. We then had a go at making St Brigid’s crosses, which proved trickier than we expected but very rewarding.

We also enjoyed movement breaks and outdoor learning with Ms Nelson.

In science, we investigated sinking and floating, using our reciprocal reading skill of predicting to think about what might happen to different objects before testing them out. We then recorded our answers on our worksheet.

In our committee group this week we discussed what’s going well in both digital and play in our classes, we also talked about what we would like to see in our classrooms going forward.

We made a two stars 🌟 and a wish 🪄for each class. Using our collaboration skills to decide what our wish would be for our class. It was helpful to all about what other classes use digital for and how we play in class.

We talked about how we learn better when we are having fun 🤩 or playing together. This inspired us to make posters to put up around the school to remind everyone why play is important.

What a fantastic time we had during our Food Technology session. The pupils decided they wanted to make ‘Monster Burgers’ with scary faces and tasty teeth. Well done to all the pupils who  flipped their own burgers, used different food textures and sniffed and tasted everything, they cooked. A very responsible class who cleaned and tidied up after themselves.

Well done Ness Monsters 🙂

Finishing off a fine week at P7😀

In outdoor learnings we went for a nature walk and made alphabetical list full of the stuff we saw🌳

Adam and his friend Anna came in to teach us about a Ghanian-monkey called mangabey and they’re also sending letters by us to a school in Ghana🇬🇭🐒

In physical education (PE) we,ve been focusing on fitness and gymnastics .for fitness we’ve been learning how to use our core muscles 🏋️and in gymnastics we’ve been learning how to do rolls🤸‍♀️

In numeracy or mathematics we’ve been learning how add,subtract,and times fractions by finding the lowest common multiple🧮➕➖✖️

In Scot’s language we’ve learned how to make a rhythmic poem using Scot’s language like Aye,Naw,Dreech,Rammy,and Eejit and we’ve found out the meanings for many other words🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🗣

Thats all!👋

-Primary 7😊

A lovely sunny week!!

We have had a ball outside…lots of muddy play! We have also enjoyed sensory time in class….with flour, popcorn, oats and crispies…yummy tactile fun!

Our learning is coming on a pace too…some of us are working on our numbers 11-20!! Our pencil control is wonderful too…and we are learning to recognise and follow instructions for colour and pictures.

Hello everyone and a happy new year from P7🥳

It’s good to be back with all our friends😊 and something to do after 2 weeks off!🥱

We’ve been up to a lot of learning and we’ve been manly focusing on maths,literacy,and spelling📚

In guided reading we’ve got new books for the topic of world war 1 and we’ve learned many facts!📖

In math,s we’ve been learned to add and subract fractions by finding the most common multiple🧮In outdoor we’ve been learning how to cooperate with the outdoors and mixing our human bodies with life🏕

-Primary 7👩‍🏫