A busy week as always!

In Numeracy, we completed our assessment and moved on to a new topic, addition using our number bonds. We continued to develop our confidence with numbers through practical activities and lots of discussion.

In Literacy, we continued working hard in our Read Write Inc. groups, practising our sounds, reading and writing skills.

In our People Who Help Us topic, we worked in small groups to create our very own drama pieces based on our learning. We had some budding actors and actresses in P2! 🎭 We then became drama critics and assessed each other’s performances, sharing one thing we loved and one thing that could make the performance even better next time. We loved seeing everyone work together, use their imaginations and build their confidence when performing for others.

In Primary 3 this week, we received an important package from the Museum of Scotland which contained lots of Ancient Egyptian books and artefacts to support our learning on this topic.

We had to be extremely careful when unpacking them because they are very fragile.

We are looking forward to finding out more about them as we progress through our Ancient Egypt topic.

Our Building Thinking Classrooms session was very successful where we worked collaboratively together in random groups. We are working towards being able to explain our thinking and our solutions to the rest of our class.

For French this week we finished creating our French feelings emojis for our wall display, (See Seesaw for photos).

P5/4 are having a busy few weeks! We are now exploring planet earth and habitats in our Science lessons, and researching Myths and Legends in our mini IDL topic.  In literacy we have begun to work on core targets and jotter presentations and guided reading, which is going very well! We are half way through our PUMA numeracy assessment, to identify areas of need and will then be moving back to Maths No Problem, focusing on the four operation of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

With our art specialist we have completed a beautiful self portrait and will soon be moving on to illustrating a character from Scottish mythology.

We are also enjoying drama lessons and laptop technologies and have been speaking lots of French. Well done everyone!

This week, our P4 and P5/4 classes have been exploring biodiversity and habitats! We have been learning about the amazing variety of living things around us and thinking about the different habitats they call home.

We took our learning outdoors and headed to the woods to become biodiversity detectives! 🔎🌳 We worked together to see how many different living things we could discover and identify where they lived.

We found lots of exciting things along the way, including squirrels, spiders and even spider eggs! 🕷️🥚🐿️ We loved getting up close to nature and making connections between the animals and their habitats.

It was fantastic to see everyone showing such curiosity, teamwork and enthusiasm as we explored the natural world around us! 🌱💚

We’ve had another positive week in primary 6.

In numeracy we have been continuing our work on understanding number, comparing numbers up to 1,000,000. We also completed some building thinking classroom challenges, the different ways everybody worked to try and solve the problems was great to see.

In literacy this week we were working on our understanding of character as well as using our predicting skills. We also completed our dictation practice, the improvement is clear from everyone within the class so well done!

We used our devices within the classroom to explore our solar system during work on our topic this week. The engagement and enthusiasm amongst the class was great to see and there were a lot of interesting conversations about different things that had been discovered.

On Thursday we voted for our choice of candidate in the House Captain elections before finding out the winners on Friday. Congratulations to all of the House Captains and Vice Captains.

We finished the week on Friday with our first mass of the year. Our friends in primary 7 did a great job with their readings and it was a nice end to the week as we came together as a school.

Primary 3 have been learning more about France this week. We were able to locate France on a world map, (thanks Aston!), we made French flags and enjoyed tasting French foods. Unfortunately it was too difficult to source frogs legs and snails so we tried baguettes, brie, croissants and pan au chocolate. Some foods were more popular than others!

We also introduced this term’s IDL topic which is Ancient Egypt. The children worked in groups to identify what they already know and what they would like to find out about Ancient Egypt over the next few weeks.

We had the very important job of voting in our school elections for our House Captains and Vice Captains. We tried to keep our votes secret before posting them in the official Ballot Box. It was all very exciting as election fever took over!

We finished our busy week with a lovely, welcome back to school mass with Father Marcine where the hymn singing was outstanding.

Well done al!!