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

We have been doing number talks / number stories since the start of primary 7 and we all as a class have been doing very well been very successful. And then now we do division.While doing our division  in class our teacher taught us bus stop division at the start it was tricky but now it is getting better.

In writing we are doing descriptive writing where we describe what is in a picture, at first it was okay but we weren’t doing it properly so now we are doing it easily with the help of our teacher. 👩‍🏫

We have been doing outdoor learning on Thursday and making our names.

We have been having fun in PE doing badminton and basketball. On Tuesdays we have some sports leaders from St Margaret’s who are coming in and doing some games and playing football with us.

Thank. IS & ZD x

This week Rannoch class have been busy exploring numbers and 2D shapes in maths, creating some spooky Halloween art, and enjoying music time together. We loved joining P5 friends for P.E and making the most of our outdoor learning spaces, from the classroom to the trim trail. Time in the sensory room gave us a chance to relax and recharge, rounding off a fun-filled week of learning and play!