Primary 5 had a fabulous day out in Edinburgh  to end our topic on Mary Queen of Scots. We explored some of the sights on the Royal Mile including the grave of David Riccio, we visited the old royal stables, John Knox house and tried to get a bit of good luck at the Heart of Midlothian! Yuk!

We then spent the afternoon at Holyroodhouse Palace learning about the life and times of Mary, examined May artefacts from that time period and even got to visit her bedroom! The point of most interest was the large blood stain on the floorboards rumoured to be the place where David Riccio, Mary’s private secretary, fell after being attacked! Unfortunately photos were not allowed in the palace but we got plenty at other points in the day. It was a great day out.

I also took this picture as we were leaving as it caught my attention. It is a school trip to the palace which took place 100 years ago! I’m sure that they enjoyed it just as much as we did!

This week we have enjoyed having some sunshine ☀️.

During outdoor learning we got out to check on the seeds we planted and collected bugs 🐛 We were very good at identifying different types of bugs 🐞 and respectful at putting them back where we found them. Some  of us were a little frightened to catch the bugs 🐛 but we worked as a team. We had to use trowels to find the bugs in the earth.

In topic work we have been learning that there are lots and lots of different creatures in the sea 🌊 and this week we focused on naming some of them. We all did very well at matching the creatures to their names.

We used good coordination skills to catch fish 🐟 with our magnetic fishing rods and enjoyed catching the fish eggs with the fishing net.

As it is spring time some of us made spring flower hand prints, we have discussed how in springtime flowers start to grow and the weather gets a bit better.  When the weather is nice we get to go out to the back playground at lunchtime, we all enjoy exploring the playground.

We have also enjoyed using the light up boards for independent writing.

Have a lovely weekend.

Primary 1 settled straight back into learning after our Easter Holidays. Everyone has showed the school values and enjoyed being back together with our friends.

In number work we have been learning about sharing and making equal groups. We have shared out different items with each other making sure everyone had an equal amount, this makes it fair. To stretch our learning we then worked on adding equal groups together. As a challenge Primary 1 requested to learn how to count in 2’s.

We have enjoyed learning more fun facts about sea creatures, this week we learned that when a group of fish swim together we call that a school of fish.

During art we made water colour sea scenes and added tropical fish to them, We were focusing on our brush stroke work making them look like 🌊 waves. We talked lots about what the sea looks like , if is was smooth or wavy and if it was all the one colour. After our fish dried we added details to them and put them on our ocean scenes.

Have a lovely weekend 😀