Primary 1 M had a exciting time making ‘potions’ last week ! We all made sure to keep ourselves safe . We put on our safety glasses and listened carefully to the instructions. We know that we must never touch liquids without an adult helping us.
We had great fun trying to find the skeletons in the sand !
After a busy week we listened to some very relaxing music and watched the stars on the Smartboard. We loved this and felt very chilled out afterwards.
This week we’re supporting Talk Money Week, which aims to break the stigma of talking about money and get us all sharing more about this important topic, whether that’s with friends, family or anyone else! In Maths we were tasked with planning a festive party. We all had different budgets and different guest lists to consider. We had to use Aldi and Argos’s websites to buy supplies. We had to consider budget, venue, guest list, food, decoration and entertainment. We then applied our talking and listening skills as we presented our Canva presentations of our budget friendly parties to the class and discussed if we think having a large budget was the most important factor in having a good time. Ask us our thoughts on this.
This week we invited our Primary 1 buddies to our classroom to help them log on to devices and play some online maths games with them. We love having extra responsibility with our buddies and enjoy teaching them new things. We hope they can come back soon.
Keep up the great work Primary 7 and we will have another fantastic week next week!
Miss Lindsay
This week P3 were very inspired by the P6 class and their assembly all about Remembrance Day. We really enjoyed learning all about the Poppies that people wear as a symbol for all the soldiers who fought in the war to keep us safe. We decided to make our own wall display. We wrote acrostic poems for the word POPPY and we thought of some very interesting and moving vocabulary. We also made some pinwheel Poppies and added this altogether to make a beautiful display.
Continuing with our IDL topic of Homes and Castles we looked at ways in which a castle was built for defence. The battlements, portcullis, drawbridhe and moat were all important in keeping those inside the castle safe. We made our own catapults using lolly sticks and elastic bands. We could fire a Pom Pom half way across the classroom.
It was our first week back in Cooking Club today and we made Bonfire Pizzas!!
We made our dough from scratch using plain flour, warm water, yeast and a pinch of salt – everyone did so well mixing all the ingredients together and shaping their dough into balls to flatten into pizza shapes.
We got to choose our toppings to make ‘fireworks’ and the options were Red Leicester Cheddar (orange), Mature Cheddar (white), Mozzarella (white), Yellow Pepper, Red Pepper, Red Onion and Pepperoni.
Massive well done to everyone on week 1!!!
Miss Lindsay & Mrs Wotherspoon
Today P6 led the annual Remembrance Assembly and welcomed special guests from the armed services.
P6 have been learning about Remembrance including why we have a two-minute silence, who we are remembering, which special poems are shared at Remembrance, what Article 38 means for children and why we wear a poppy. Pupils all wore poppies they had made themselves and placed a beautiful hand-made wreath centre stage to mark the occasion. The class have been rehearsing every day for the last week and did a wonderful job of sharing a reflective and thought-provoking assembly.
We were incredibly lucky to be joined by Lance Corporal and Private Mallaney from the Royal Logistics Corps who answered lots of interesting pupil questions and spoke about their experiences in the armed services. We were very grateful for them to give up their time to come in and we even got to try on some army equipment and uniforms at the end.
Well done Primary 6, you certainly gave us all an experience to remember.
We have made a great start in our new topic of World War 1, learning what sparked the beginning of the first world war. Ask us what happened in Sarajevo to ignite the chain of events that led to war in early August 1914? We will use our knowledge from this week to create a newspaper article explaining the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Watch this space for updates next week.
We have created some spooky sunset silhouette artwork this week with a focus on our blending skills with paint. We have updated our wall display in class with these amazing pieces.
Over all we have had a fantastically positive week this week with lots of hard work, kind actions, positive attitudes, exceptions engagement, great participating happening in the classroom. This is shown in our WOW board where a pupil who has went above and beyond is recognised and selects a WOW board square for the chance to win a special prize.
Keep up the good work Primary 7. Your teacher is very proud of all of you!
Primary 1 M have had a fun week doing lots of spooky Halloween activities . Here we are painting pumpkin pictures. We discovered that if you mix red and yellow paint you can make orange , and if you mix yellow and blue paint you can make green ! We loved colour mixing.
These are the stories that we listened to this week. We were so good at listening carefully to the stories and then talking about our favourite parts. Our teacher was so impressed !
In this activity we had to roll and shape the dough to create features for the witch’s face. We had some great ideas and made funny shapes for the noses, eyes and mouths, and it was great for helping the muscles in our hands get stronger for writing.
Here we are with our painted pumpkins. They looked fantastic. Our teacher was so proud of us
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We had to cut out the shapes for the pumpkin’s eyes, nose and mouth . We made some funny pumpkin faces and practised our cutting skills .
Here we are doing some fun music and movement games and running from monsters that “smell like blue cheese “, yuk !
Here are our amazing costumes ! We were fantastic !
At the party !
Time for party food !
What a great week we had !
Halloween came to P6 on Friday with pupils showcasing their costumes on the classroom catwalk and in the hall. All manner of spooky and scary beings strutted their stuff and enjoyed lots of fun games, dancing and snacks.
In other news this week P6 have been continuing with their spelling strategies and spelling rules. We have also begun a new reading scheme looking at non-fiction books which will help us with our new writing topic, Information Report. In numeracy we are just about to complete a new assessment to identify gaps in learning. In topic we are learning all about space, based on topics pupils have chosen themselves. Well done Primary 6!
We’ve had a super week in Rannoch! We have started learning about time – to the hour and are getting really good at our initial sounds in our Literacy times. We have also enjoyed time in the Outdoor classroom. Tomorrow…we are making Ham and Cheese toasties…yum!!
This week Primary 5 had the very exciting experience of going to Broomlee Camp for two days and one night! Everyone had so much fun and did so well with all of the challenges & activities.
There will be lots more photos uploaded onto the children’s Digital Profiles for special adults to have a look at.
Whilst we were away, the children that didn’t attend camp had lots of fun with Mr Henderson. The children got to play Ukulele’s, play poison dodgeball and create amazing Halloween art using oil pastels.
Have a good rest this weekend everyone, you deserve it after all the activities!
Mrs Wotherspoon
