Week two in Primary 1

We have a fantastic week in Primary 1!

Everyone has done fantastic work during our phonics lessons. In Primary 1 we will be learning a new sound every day which it lots of work but all the boys and girls have been fantastic. We use Read Write in to help us learn our sounds.

We are not only learning how to say the sounds but write ✍️ them as well, Miss Stenhouse is so proud of everyone.

In number work we are beginning to learn all about different numbers, how to build then, count them, make them and write them.

All the boys and girls are showing amazing concentration.

Throughout the day we all enjoy exploring the toys and playing with our friends.

Have a lovely weekend.

 

ThelifeofTay!

From next week, we look forward to bringing you news of the travels of Taylor our class mascot. He will be journeying beyond the school to see what the members of Tay class get up to!

This week has been lovely! It has been our first full week as members of Tay. We have enjoyed playing on our musical instruments, navigating the Trim Trail and enjoying lots of sand play in the Outdoor Classroom! We have also enjoyed trying out our class spinning chairs and looking at our books in our class library.

 

Welcome to Primary 1

Wow 🤩 what an amazing first week in Primary 1!
All the boys and girls  have settled in well to school and are gaining confidence when going for break and lunch with the other boys and girls.

We have been learning our school values and that we all have rights. We all used our finger prints and hand prints to agree to try our best to show our school values, and remind us of our rights.

 

 

We are all looking forward to lots of learning and playing this year.

First week in P5 complete👍✔️

🎉 Welcome Back, Everyone! 🎉

A new school year means new adventures, new friends, and exciting things to learn! Over the next few weeks, we’ll be getting into our classroom routines so we know just what to do each day. We created our new door design with Mrs. Saunders, and went over our class/school values, that we will uphold this year. Both, Mrs Saunders and Ms. Fox can’t wait to laugh, learn, and make this our best year in St. Mary’s yet! 🚍✏️📚📘

First week back in Rannoch

Welcome Back! 📚✏️🚍📘

We’re excited to begin a new school year together! As we settle in, we’ll be building our classroom routines so that everyone knows what to expect and feels confident each day. A special welcome to our new student Jack —you’re joining a caring, hardworking class, and we can’t wait to learn and grow alongside you. Let’s make this year one filled with curiosity, kindness, and success!

 

 

 

Last week in Primary 1🥳

Well what an amazing year we had together 😀 and we are all looking forward to being Primary 2’s in August 🎉

This week we have enjoyed a whole school water fight, a chance to celebrate mass in the church, Primary 7 leavers assembly, class party and so much more! I think it’s safe to say we are ready to have a break and recharge for the new school year!

We should all be super proud of everything we have achieved this year, Miss Stenhouse and Mrs Kennedy  are definitely proud of everyone .

We would like to wish our Primary 7 buddies the best of luck at high school, we have enjoyed your friendship this year, it has made our first year of school even better 😀

At the start of the week we had a buddies fun afternoon in the trim trail when we cooked snacks and danced around.

Have a lovely summer break everyone 🤩

P2’s Recycling Fortnight

Over the last 2 weeks, as part of a whole school topic, P2 have been learning all about recycling. ♻️

We started our topic by having a pupil voice planning session as to what we would like to learn and what we already knew. We read through our story book and made a list in our floor book.
We learned about the different coloured bins, what goes in each bin, why it is important that we separate it and where each the rubbish goes. We created our own bins by reusing cardboard boxes, painting them different colours and labelling them. We then used these for a full week to practise separating our rubbish. We spoke about trying to do this at home too and encouraging our family to recycle.

When  discussing recycled paper, we created our own paper!

We spoke about the benefits of compost and separating food waste. We identified the food waste bin in our own school and other settings. We then created our own compost. We spoke about how compost has nutrients from the food and how we can grow flowers in our compost. We then wrote a procedure piece on how to grow a flower.

As part of our targets this term, as a class, we aimed to develop our research skills. We researched save the earth posters and information after talking about clean energy. We spoke about solar panels and types of energy alongside how to recycle batteries.

We spoke about donating and upcycling clothes and other items. We spoke about how someone may have a use or a need for something you might not need anymore. We also spoke about reusable bags and the policy in place to encourage use of biodegradable products.
We ended our topic by creating recycling monsters. We gave our monsters bins for arms and legs, our own made paper for hair, a reusable bag for clothes and a recycling symbol on our the clothes.

P5 win Creativity in Literacy Award

P5 were delighted to win a prestigious award for literacy this week. In January, we did a lot of literacy work on our Scots Poetry topic including writing a biography of Rabbie Burns, learning and reciting his poems, creating our own Scots poems  and hosting a Burn supper for parents. We met benchmarks across reading, writing and listening and talking.
P5 won the bronze award for second level, which was presented to  the class by Mark Neil, West Lothian’s Education Officer.
Superb work Primary 5!

Scientists in P5

The scientists from the University of Edinburgh were  back in P5 this week sharing our results from our DNA experiment. Well done to everyone! We discovered that it’s easier to extract DNA from strawberries than it is from grapes.

Our experiment was part of their research into DNA and will be published in a forthcoming scientific journal.

#buildingforsuccess

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