Well done to Aine in P6 who won the Scots Poetry Competition with her recital of The Puddock by John M. Caie. Aine won the shield and was awarded with it by the Robert Sorbie’s daughters who were the guest judges. The standard was incredibly high and everyone who made the final did a great job! It was a very enjoyable event!
P3 – Scots Poetry Competition
A huge WELL DONE to all of our Primary 3 stars for practicing their poems at home this week! We were blown away with how well you remembered the words and had confidence to say your poem to all your friends in class! On Friday morning the whole school gathered in the hall for our annual Scots Poetry Competition. Congratulations to the children in Primary 3 for sharing their Scots poem to the whole school. We are so proud of you!
Primary 3 are sending lots of Valentine’s love to everyone!
Have a wonderful, happy, safe and fun February holiday!
Primary 1S
Another fun filled week in Primary 1S!
In RE we were learning all about Shrove Tuesday, Pancake 🥞 Tuesday. We had lots of fun making pancakes with our Primary 7 buddies. We were mixing and cooking then had a good tasting of our 🧑🍳 cooking.
As we will be off when it’s the start of Lent we learned all about Lent and made our very own Lent promises.
On Tuesday we had another great outdoor learning session, making dens.
After collecting lots of things we made our own “Whirley Bangs”, our own vehicles. This took lots of skills and we had to think about what Hamish McHaggis whirley bang looks like, how many wheels it had, seats and a roof. We had lots of fun making these even though we found it tricky at times.
On Thursday we learned all about St Valentine 💌 we made beautiful cards and thought about people we ❤️ love.
On Friday we participated in the whole school Scots Poetry assembly. We were a great audience listening to all the children who competed in the competition. We also performed our song “You canny shove yer granny aff the bus”. We did very well, even though we were a bit shy.
Primary 1S and Primary 7 early Pancake fun
Primary 1S and Primary 7 got together to make 🥞 pancakes.
As we will be off school on Pancake Tuesday we decided to have them early😀
We used lots of skills, teamwork , listening, following instructions as well cooking 🧑🍳 skills to make pancakes 🥞 with our buddies. We had lots of fun and got to sample a couple of pancakes each with different toppings.
We all agreed we would like to try to makes these at home 😋
Coding in Primary 3
This week we had the opportunity to use our problem solving and coding skills with the Bee-Bots. We gave our Bee-Bot a sequence of instructions to navigate around the classroom. We had to be confident with left and right and work out directions for the Bee-Bot to follow.
Once we were confident with the basic coding instructions we then used maps where we could navigate the Bee-Bots around the roads.
Art and Design in P3
We have really enjoyed learning about famous artists this year. As our IDL topic is a Scottish focus we wanted to learn about a famous Scottish artist. We learned about Gillian Kyle who is a textile designer. She is greatly inspired by all things Scottish. We learned that she was born in Renfrewshire and studied at the Glasgow School of Art. She creates designs for products such as aprons, cushions and table mats. She takes her influence from lots of Scottish products such as Tunnocks Teacakes, Caramel Wafers, Irn Bru and haggis. We used Scottish products and looked at the design of their packaging and then created a piece of art in the style of Gillian Kyle.
Primary 1 M another busy week !
P1 M have had another very busy week.
Our topic is’ Where we live’ so we have been learning about places in Scotland and about places in Polbeth .
Hamish Mc Haggis has been to Edinburgh so we found out where he visited and used Google Maps to take a peek at where Hamish was. He visited the castle and went to the Tattoo !
Here we are drawing our houses and painting models of them.
We are learning all about adding numbers together so we played Snakes and Ladders to help up count on and add. It was great fun !
We also jumped around to the music, then we had to land on certain numbers.
At the end of our busy week we did some Mindfulness ! We really enjoyed listening to the music, watching the lights making gentle cloud shapes and relaxing our bodies. We learned how nice it is to feel calm and relaxed.
” I like the relaxing” AB
“Listening to the sounds is good fun” JB
“I want to do the music again”
Here is a link to try out at home
Have a lovely weekend everyone
Mrs Moffat.
Primary 1S
We have had a fun learning week in P1S!
On Tuesday we enjoyed our outdoor learning session, we went up to the woods and had some time to explore, climb 🌲 and collect different things.
During our topic lessons we have been learning all about Scotland 🏴. This week Hamish and his friend went to Inverness. We learned about where Inverness was on the map and why people would like to go visit it. Our focus took us to Loch Ness and the Loch Ness Monster, Nessie. We have had lots of fun learning and made our own Nessie puppets.
On Friday we participated very respectfully during the school mass and sang the hymns we have learned beautifully. Miss Stenhouse was very proud of us all.
Have a lovely weekend 😀
Primary 5 this week!!
It has been a very busy week in Primary 5 this week.
We have finished our Graph topic in Numeracy and have moved onto more Multiplication. The class were very excited about this!!
They have all worked really hard at Literacy this week; we have some exciting books in our reading groups – BFG, James and the Giant Peach, The Powder Monkey and Petey! Everyone has also worked so hard learning our new spelling sound ‘sh.’ We started our new Writing Genre last week so have been learning more about that too – Narrative. We will be creating our own stories soon and the ideas that have already been shared are excellent!
The big event in Primary 5 this week is that the class lead our first 2024 School Mass and what a great job they did. We are all so proud of you all; for your singing, participation and respect to others. Massive well done P5!
Lots of Learning in Primary 7
Another busy week in Primary 7 with lots of new learning.
We started the week with some problem solving maths challenges where we had to work in teams to solve the problems we were presented with. Some of these included
– Can you change 1 stick to solve the equation?
– Can you fill the cup up with exactly 4 litres of water. You only have a 5 litre cup and a 4 litre cup, how will you do this?
– Can you cut an A4 sheet of paper so it has a hole big enough to fit 2 people through?
We were successful in all our tasks.
We have been using digital frequently in our class for research challenges and presentations. This left us asking “What is a reliable website?”
“How can we trust this information from this website?”.
We then completed a research projected on The Pacific North West Tree Octopus which we were upset to learn was a completely fake website. This made us realise not all information we find on the internet is trustworthy. We will now be more careful with the information we read on the internet.
We have now started our new writing topic of narrative writing and poems. In preparation for this we have been looking at direct speech. We have discussed the direct speech rules and practised our direct speech skills to translate texts from some known characters. Check out our work below.
We celebrated burns day on the 25th January with some Scottish songs, poems, and art tasks. We used our digital skills to see if we had a clan tartan related to our surnames. This gave us inspiration to create our own tartan kilts.
Primary 7 you are working so hard and making great progress. You are all fabulous individuals and I am so proud of you all. I’m delighted to be teaching you. Miss Lindsay
