We learned this week that the Olympic Committee have allowed a refugee team to take part in this year’s Olympic Games. We thought this was a great idea and we decided to design a flag and a national costume for the team. Here are our brilliant designs. What do you think? Please ask us about them if you see us.

Ellen was so busy helping the P3/4 class this week that she only had time to design a flag but she did a beautiful job. Well done, everyone!

As part of our new Materials topic we had a challenge this afternoon. We had to use junk materials brought in from home to make bugs and beasties which represent our reading groups. We looked at the materials wall to remind ourselves of different materials and their properties. Would we need materials that were soft, strong, hard; made of plastic or paper or cardboard?

Each group had a Materials Manager who had to choose what we needed. We were able to use paint and glue as well.

Here are some pictures of us. Mrs Sutherland says sorry for anyone who came home displaying an over enthusiastic use of paint.

Tomorrow we will look at what we made and talk about what went well and what we could do to improve.

This week we have been learning how we can be responsible, resilient, reflective, resourceful and respectful. BIG words for Primary 1 so we talked about what they mean. No BIG task for Primary 1 however as we came up with lots of examples. Have a look and prepare to be impressed!

This morning we were learning about paired reading. We know that means working in two’s because there are two shoes in a pair. Some of us ended up in a three because we found it difficult to just choose one partner!

We discussed what books we liked the look of in our class library. Some different books we were interested in were about penguins, fire engines and dinosaurs. We learned how to ask questions about the book and how to take turns in our reading. At the end we reported back to the other trios and pairs. Some of us found our book a bit tricky and others thought we had read a really interesting book.

Here we are enjoying our reading!

In P6/7 we were given  a task to make an animation about something of our choice.  Using a camera and tri-pod and you could bring in your own props.  We were split into groups of 3.  We all had different ideas and you had to put the pictures that we had taken on the camera onto the computer and we go into a special app that combines the pictures and makes it look like it’s moving.  It’s really fun!

written by Kerys – newsletter group