HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM ALL IN P4/3! Wow! Excellent effort for all the costumes. The children have had a great morning!
TheLifeOfTay!
An action packed week has been enjoyed in Tay class.
We have enjoyed playing catch on the Kick Pitch and have built towers in the Outdoor Classroom where we worked well together.
In class we have created squirrel tails in our Autumn Art class and matching the heads and tails of safari animals in our learning.
We have also worked with colours and monster pictures in learning how to recognise colour and parts of the monsters’ bodies.
We have had great fun in P.E. and donned our waterproofs to enjoy time outside on the Trim Trail.
We also enjoyed a sensory experience with jelly – lots of messy, tasty, fun!
Rannoch Round Up
We’ve had a fantastic few weeks full of hands-on learning, sensory exploration, and Halloween celebrations!
✨ Sensory Play and Literacy
Our learners have been enjoying foam play while exploring the sounds ‘m’ and ‘a’. The soft, bubbly texture made it fun to form letters, trace shapes, and listen for the sounds in words. Sensory play helps our pupils engage with learning in a calm, enjoyable way — and there were lots of smiles and messy hands!
🔺 Shapes in Numeracy
In maths, we’ve been practising recognising and naming shapes using concrete materials such as blocks, puzzles, and sorting toys. The children loved building towers, matching shapes, and discovering which ones roll or stack. These activities help develop early numeracy skills while keeping learning active and playful.
🌳 Outdoor and Sensory Movement
We’ve also spent time in the outdoor area and sensory room, giving learners opportunities to move, regulate, and explore different textures and sounds. Outdoor P.E. sessions have been full of energy and laughter, while the sensory room offered a peaceful space for calm time afterwards.
🎃 Halloween Fun!
To finish off the week last week, we celebrated with our Halloween parties — and they were a huge success! Everyone enjoyed dressing up, dancing, and joining in with spooky-themed games and sensory activities. It was a wonderful way to bring integrate classes together and celebrate in a fun, inclusive way.
We’re so proud of how engaged and happy our learners have been — it’s been a brilliant balance of fun, movement, and learning!
Lomond Class
Lovely to see everyone back after the October holiday. We’ve had a fun week… we celebrated ‘M’s’ Birthday with some treats and this delicious cake that was sent in from ‘M’s’ parents! Thank you to them again. We also had some Halloween fun. Many of us enjoyed Halloween PE and the Halloween party followed by some tasty treats.
Happy Halloween from P5
It has been a busy first week back in P5. We have attended our first committee of the school year where we have the opportunity to share our views and opinions about our experiences at St Mary’s.
We completed a writing assessment on information reports. Look at that concentration!
We attended our first upper school Halloween party. It was enjoyed by all. There were some cracking dance moves on display! I apologise for the picture quality being poor.
A Spooktacular Week in Primary 1
Primary 1 kicked of the week with potion making, mixing, smelling and feeling different sents and textures to make our own spooky potions.
In art, inspired by the book “Spider” we learned lots of spider facts and made spider 🕷️ pictures with stamps we made.
On Wednesday we participated in our first pupil voice committee groups, we all enjoyed working with different groups of children from across the whole school.
At our outdoor learning session this week we walked up to the local woodland area and made wands from nature.
During the week some of us enjoyed making pumpkin 🎃 stamp pictures using apples 🍎.
Keeping with the Halloween 🎃 theme we used it for our science 🧪 we turned a solid to liquid and back to solid making a spooky 👻 jelly potion, we are looking forward to eating them .
On Friday we had a Halloween 🎃 party. We played lots of games, danced, and had a costume competition, it was lots of fun. Well done to everyone who took part, everyone looked very scary .
Have a lovely weekend.
Have a lovely weekend.
#TheLifeofTay!
Welcome back to the Tales of Tay!
We have enjoyed meeting up again after our well-earned break. We had such a busy start to our first year at St Mary’s and have continued in the same vein this week!
We have wellied-up and enjoyed Trim Trail increasingly muddy fun! Songs and personalised learning have focused minds keenly in our Literacy and Numeracy and we have had great fun with flour!
We have read, drawn, worked out puzzles, matched pairs, listened to initial sounds, played in the mud and the sand, made Autumn Art leaf pictures, and completed jigsaws! All in all, a busy week 1!
Lomond Class
In Lomond Class we made chocolate chip cookies this week.
We did good looking and listening. We waited for our turn and mixed the ingredients together. The mixture smelled good before baking and even better after.
Everyone enjoyed eating the warm cookies!
Half Term in Ness
We brought the curtain down on a very busy but successful first term. We have made lots of friends and learned lots of amazing facts and skills over the past 8 weeks. The highlight of this week was our funny but edible squishy ghosts we made during Food Technology.
Enjoy the pics below, and we hope everyone has a lovely week off.
Last week of term in Primary 1
Another busy learning week in Primary 1!
To start the week we read the story Pumpkin 🎃 Soup, this inspired us to make our own pumpkin soup in our tuff tray. We had lost of fun scooping out the pumpkins and mixing them with lentils and water. Lots of skills used and plenty of imagination 💭
For art this week we used leaves 🍁 we collected to make leaf 🍁 animals and bugs, we are very proud of how they have turned out.
During literacy, Read Write Inc, we have been practicing partner practice reading 📖 we are all doing very well at reading, blending our sounds together and working with partners.
During outdoor learning we walked to the local park, we all had lots of fun climbing and playing with our friends.
On Friday we were very respectful during assembly where we found out who our P7 house captains are, we were excited to find out if the people we voted for won .
Have a lovely holiday😀
