Last week Primary 6 enjoyed two sessions at Polbeth nursery to meet their future buddies. They took part in an exciting science experiment, before spending time playing with all the children. Buddies won’t be chosen until much nearer the end of the year, when Primary 6 have met all the children. For now, it’s just all about fun and friendship! Well done Primary 6!

Primary 6 and 7 had a visit from an author today to kick off what promises to be a fun and exciting book week at St Mary’s! Writer Emma visited our school to share how she became an author and what it’s like to get your fiction and poetry published.

She shared how she writes from her own experiences, why she keeps all her ideas in a diary, and how perseverance (one of St Mary’s School Values) is the reason she has become a successful author and poet.

After an interesting talk, P6 and 7 asked lots of questions about how to become a writer.  However, the main message from Emma was to follow our dreams, no matter what they are, as perseverance will take you far!

Good morning everyone and happy Monday!

Primary 1S have had a busy few weeks at St Mary’s.
We had so much fun at our spooktacular Halloween party where we played games, danced and had lots of fun.

We’ve been working super hard on our number work, counting up to 30 and back again.

We‘ve even managed to get out for some outdoor learning. We were working collaboratively using the crisp autumn leaves to create a picture/image in the grass.

Looking forward to another busy week packed with fun activities!
Miss McNeil

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 !

We enjoyed using the laptops with our P7 Buddies.    They really helped us with our maths skills .   We are learning about one more than and one less than just now !

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