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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A busy week as always!

In Numeracy, we completed our assessment and moved on to a new topic, addition using our number bonds. We continued to develop our confidence with numbers through practical activities and lots of discussion.

In Literacy, we continued working hard in our Read Write Inc. groups, practising our sounds, reading and writing skills.

In our People Who Help Us topic, we worked in small groups to create our very own drama pieces based on our learning. We had some budding actors and actresses in P2! 🎭 We then became drama critics and assessed each other’s performances, sharing one thing we loved and one thing that could make the performance even better next time. We loved seeing everyone work together, use their imaginations and build their confidence when performing for others.

In Primary 3 this week, we received an important package from the Museum of Scotland which contained lots of Ancient Egyptian books and artefacts to support our learning on this topic.

We had to be extremely careful when unpacking them because they are very fragile.

We are looking forward to finding out more about them as we progress through our Ancient Egypt topic.

Our Building Thinking Classrooms session was very successful where we worked collaboratively together in random groups. We are working towards being able to explain our thinking and our solutions to the rest of our class.

For French this week we finished creating our French feelings emojis for our wall display, (See Seesaw for photos).

P5/4 are having a busy few weeks! We are now exploring planet earth and habitats in our Science lessons, and researching Myths and Legends in our mini IDL topic.  In literacy we have begun to work on core targets and jotter presentations and guided reading, which is going very well! We are half way through our PUMA numeracy assessment, to identify areas of need and will then be moving back to Maths No Problem, focusing on the four operation of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

With our art specialist we have completed a beautiful self portrait and will soon be moving on to illustrating a character from Scottish mythology.

We are also enjoying drama lessons and laptop technologies and have been speaking lots of French. Well done everyone!

This week, our P4 and P5/4 classes have been exploring biodiversity and habitats! We have been learning about the amazing variety of living things around us and thinking about the different habitats they call home.

We took our learning outdoors and headed to the woods to become biodiversity detectives! 🔎🌳 We worked together to see how many different living things we could discover and identify where they lived.

We found lots of exciting things along the way, including squirrels, spiders and even spider eggs! 🕷️🥚🐿️ We loved getting up close to nature and making connections between the animals and their habitats.

It was fantastic to see everyone showing such curiosity, teamwork and enthusiasm as we explored the natural world around us! 🌱💚