Please do remember to complete our homework questionnaire. We want to ensure that our homework policy reflects the needs of our learners and their families so your views are extremely important. A copy of the questionnaire will be sent home with children this week, or it can be accessed by following the QR code below.

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Primary 6/7 pupils are organising a community coffee morning for Friday 24th February. As part of this event, they will be holding a jumble sale in order to raise funds for the school. They would welcome any nearly-new donations of books, CDs, puzzles, toys, accessories etc. These can be handed in to the school office.

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On Monday 6th February, staff will do a short presentation in school (6-7 p.m) to show parents how to follow their child’s/children’s learning via the blog and/or the nursery Sway. We look forward to seeing nursery and school parents there.

We were very busy last week preparing for our Scottish night as well as all our other learning. Here is some of what we have been learning.

We read Katie Morag and the Tiresome Ted story and in writing we re-wrote the story and thought about how the the teddy felt at different points,writing them in speech bubbles. Findlay

We were drawing pictures of the Bear Hunt story with a partner ready for the Scottish show next Monday. Maris

We wrote a letter to Katie Morag telling her our name, our age, where we live, what we like doing and we asked her a question about Struay. Josh

We were learning about Road Safety. If you are cycling about on the road you have to wear a jacket that you can be seen with, it would be yellow. Brodie

We were practising our handwriting in the sand trays last week. We were practising i, a and d. Callum

In maths we were all doing different things:

I was taking away in 100. Josh

I was taking away in 10. Brodie

I was adding numbers up to 7. Maris

I was adding two groups together with gems. Connor

I was taking away in 20. Erin

Check back in next week to find out how our final Scottish night preparations have been going!

This week’s learning in our class.

In maths we have been learning about decimals, finding out about tenths, hundredths and thousandths- Ava

I have been learning how to add 3 digit numbers with carrying – Jamie

In HWB we were learning about how germs are spread and what we could do to stop this – Lewis

In maths I have been learning my 7 times table and I found it easy – Amber

For our Scottish night we have been learning a lovely new song called the Ghosts of Culloden – Rebecca

On Friday we did a speed times tables test and I did it up to 12 – Meah

In handwriting I am beginning to learn how to join my letters – Jack

In HWB we learned the 3 ways of germ travel – Direct/indirect/airborne – Chloe

I enjoyed playing badminton in PE – Cyrus

We were learning how to win a point in badminton – Kieran

I learned how far a sneeze can travel and it is 6 feet – Angus

I enjoyed doing our speed times tables on Friday – Ffion

I enjoyed making the 3D Nessie, stuffing it with paper – Tia

We are making a map of the Battle of Bannockburn which has been good – Melissa

In writing we wrote a newspaper article about Bannockburn and I enjoyed it – Kelsey

I liked learning the Scottish song for the Scottish night – Helen

We are learning Robert Burns poems and I am reciting Address to a Haggis – Toby

We did an experiment with a bottle spray to show how far a sneeze travels. below are the pictures of us conducting the experiment.

We are reviewing the way homework is set in our school. Please take a couple of minutes to sit with your child/children, click on the link below and complete the survey. Your views are important to us!

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/85M3WMS

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A date for your diary:

On Wednesday 15th February, we will be holding our first Westfield Wednesday Walk-in (WWW), where we invite parents and carers into school first thing in the morning to try some of our soft start activities with children in class. This will run from 0900 to 0920. Please come along and join in!