Here we are getting ready for and then taking part in our daily mile challenge. The older boys and girls are doing this and we think we can do it too!

We have talked about different ways of moving – we can walk, jog, run, skip, hop and even march. We can chat to our running buddies when we are outside, and if we are lucky our running buddy might be one of our teachers!

There is some information about the daily mile here: The Daily Mile

We enjoyed being out in the fresh air. Mrs Sutherland and Mrs McKay were a bit windswept afterwards!!

Today we learned the sad news that our friend and teacher, Mr Hewitt, had passed away last week.

We took some time today to celebrate his life and remember all the great things he taught us and all the laughs we had together.

We created some art tributes that we will post to his family and we will show some of these tributes on the blog at a later date.

Mr Hewitt was an amazingly talented performer and many of the P6 students mentioned how much they enjoyed his dance lessons, so we thought it would be a fitting tribute to perform the dance he taught us in his honour.

At this time we would like to send our heartfelt condolences to all of Mr Hewitt’s family and friends.  As the children said today, he will be greatly missed by all who knew him.

All children in Primary 1 have been given a letter today explaining how to login to Education City at home. Each child has their own unique username and password.  We have allocated some games for the children to explore (instead of sending out homework in the red homework jotters), have a look in the ‘Homework’ section.  In class we are working through the activities at Early level-either Early** or Early***.  Some of the activities at First level will be too difficult for the children to complete independently.

Have fun boys and girls!

Thank you to everyone at home who helped the children create their Whirry Bang models.  The children are extremely proud of their creations, talking confidently about how they made them.  We have compared designs and styles within our own class and with P1S.  Primary 4 visited our classroom to see our Whirry Bangs too-they gave us great feedback.

Archie the archaeologist has paid us another visit and left behind a very special egg!  Inside was a cute, cuddly, fluffy green baby dinosaur!  We decided to call him Dino and he is taking it in turns to go home with P1M children at the end of each school day.  We have learned lots about Dinosaurs this week and know that the word dinosaur means ‘terrible lizard.’  Some of the boys in primary 1 know lots of facts and information about Dinosaurs and really are ‘Dinosaur Experts’ already!  They are helping Mrs McKay and Mrs Sutherland pronounce dinosaur names correctly and sharing their knowledge with everyone in P1.

Carefully taking the dinosaur egg to show P1S what was discovered in P1M after lunch!

The girls were sure they heard something moving about inside the egg and were listening carefully.

We went on a dinosaur hunt and managed to find all of the dinosaur pictures that were hidden in the playground-great detective work P1!