We’ve had a super week in Rannoch! We have started learning about time – to the hour and are getting really good at our initial sounds in our Literacy times. We have also enjoyed time in the Outdoor classroom. Tomorrow…we are making Ham and Cheese toasties…yum!!
This week Primary 5 had the very exciting experience of going to Broomlee Camp for two days and one night! Everyone had so much fun and did so well with all of the challenges & activities.
There will be lots more photos uploaded onto the children’s Digital Profiles for special adults to have a look at.
Whilst we were away, the children that didn’t attend camp had lots of fun with Mr Henderson. The children got to play Ukulele’s, play poison dodgeball and create amazing Halloween art using oil pastels.
Have a good rest this weekend everyone, you deserve it after all the activities!
Mrs Wotherspoon
This week we have been learning all about the changing seasons and Autumn. We discussed the changes in trees, plants and animals.
We enjoyed an Autumn scavenger hunt where visited the local woods and collected leaves, twigs, sticks, berries, pine cones and other natural materials.
This week has been another busy one in Rannoch class….We have learned lots about how to make sums of money in a number of different ways and have shown great progress in knowing our initial sounds during our Literacy time. We have also created some wonderfully spooky witch faces!! Tomorrow…Friday…we are going to enjoy some fingerprint paintings on spooky creatures! 
A brilliant day had by all here in Broomlee. After an uneventful bus journey, we set up in our dorms before heading for a tour of the camp. A delicious lunch was a big hit with most of our campers before our afternoon activities-Low Ropes and Crate Climb. Dinner was pasta with cake and custard then we headed into the woods for campfire. Well done to Raeya who won the award for the best campfire singer! Supper and playtime in the grounds ensured a happy end to the day… with hopefully a long nights sleep.
Looking forward to tomorrow’s adventure!
This week we have studied the work of the artist Paul Klee. We were particularly interested in his painting called Castle and Sun. We noticed that he used 2D shapes to create this picture and we discussed the colours he used. We then made a picture of our own. We used oil pastels and water coloured paint.
Today P6 enjoyed a well-earned trip to the Hub to take part in a music well-being workshop with local band Saint Phnx. Brothers Stevie and Al welcomed P6, introduced themselves and explained how music can help you with your emotions and wellbeing. Speaking candidly about some of the tough times they have faced, the band shared strategies to channel negative emotions through the power and positivity of music, to find your ‘Happy Place’.
The brothers performed some of their big hits, including Happy Place, talked about touring with Lewis Capaldi, and how they got started with their music careers.
P6 have been watching their songs for a number of days during class breaks and have been really enjoying their music! We prepared questions for the band and the boys answered them all and signed autographs and had their picture taken with the class.
This was memorable and very special afternoon that was enjoyed by all pupils and staff and it doesn’t end here! The band have asked us to create a piece of art showing what each pupil’s ‘Happy Place’ looks like and the band will make a wall mural to display this. We will be working on this from tomorrow and are really looking forward to sharing our imaginations with such wonderful and inspiring role models! The message you have shared with us is very positive and thought-provoking. Thank you Saint Phnx!
Well done to Primary 3 for working well together in groups to create posters to celebrate Maths Week Scotland! We spoke about what we think about Maths and how we use it in our every day lives. Children spoke about what they enjoy and what they find tricky. We spoke about the different resources we can use to help us with our Maths learning.
Thank you to all the parents for coming along on Friday morning to our Sharing the Learning event. I am sure you will agree, our children are shining stars! Your support is always very much appreciated, and it was lovely to see such a great turn out.
Well done to the children for working so well on homework tasks on Seesaw. We appreciate the time and effort going into all homework tasks and it is wonderful for us to see children engaging so eagerly in their homework!
It’s been very busy in Primary 5 this week from practicing for our Handball Festival to playing Blookets to assess our learning!
On Monday 2nd of October we have the Handball Festival at West Calder High School. We have all been working really hard in PE, learning skills and strategies to help us. Tyler was a great referee helping Mrs McMaster as he can’t play just now.
We had completed lots of active literacy activities this week when we were doing our spelling – writing on the desks, partner testing, keyboards, magnetic boards, foam letters, scrabble tiles and letter beads. The children responded really well to these activities!
We started our new numeracy topic of addition within 10,000 and everyone has worked so hard on this! We have been using our chimney skill strategies to help us with this and, we’ve played some blookets to practice our addition sums too! Mrs Wotherspoon had never played blooket before so it was lots of fun showing her how to use that game too!
We also completed some Health & Wellbeing work talking about how we feel safe and healthy! Everyone had great ideas and suggestions for this. A big well done for all the most amazing suggestions.
Lastly, we had lots of fun outside with Mrs Hudson-Price creating our own woodland creatures out of clay.
Have a great weekend everyone!! See you next week 🙂
Mrs Wotherspoon
Big well done to Primary 6 today who led their learning in Maths. After some coaching from Mr Elliott, the pupils were more than capable leading the lesson learning the 12 times tables. Many future teachers in this class!
I really enjoyed my time with you today guys! – Mr E
