Primary 3 received a lovely gift this week – a copy of the newly released “Gruffalo Granny”, by Julia Donaldson – from Mrs Topping’s mum! We loved reading it and we will keep it in our story corner so that we can read it by ourselves.

This week in Health and Well Being Primary 3 have been learning about friendship and what qualities make a good friend. We talked about what ingredients we would add to make  “Friendship Soup”. We are now going to do some art work to add to our Health and Well Being wall display.

We enjoyed the “Big Breakfast” on Friday where we were joined by lots of parents and carers. Then we had “Sharing our Learning”, where parents and carers had the opportunity to visit our classroom to share what we are learning about in Literacy. We did lots of activities linked to the book, “Harry and His Bucketful of Dinosaurs”. Thank you to everyone who came along!

P5/4  have been  very busy this week! We have come to the end of our mini topic on myths and legends and this week found out about Narcissus, the Knights of the Round Table  and King Midas. To end the topic we researched our own myth of interest and wrote about that. Next week’ we will start our new topic; Romans.
In numeracy we have moved onto the four operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
In guided reading we are doing extremely well on the core principles of summarising, predicting, questioning and clarifying.
Also this week we have been learning to describe ourselves in French and in Science we are moving onto ecosystems, and will be getting pet snails in class.
Finally we have been enjoying some mystery box challenges to hone our sharing and taking turns and listening/talking skills.
Next week we will also start Show and Tell Thursdays as well as our usual Techy Thursday afternoons where we hone our laptop skills.
Superb work all round!

P4 had a fantastic time during our music lesson this week, exploring rhythm, beat and sound using boomwhackers! We worked together to follow different rhythms and listened carefully to one another as we created music as a class. Everyone had lots of fun experimenting with the different sounds and developing our confidence, listening and teamwork skills. We are looking forward to seeing what we can create in our next music session! 🎵🌟

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).