We had a fantastic trip to Stirling Castle last Wednesday. We saw the King and Queen’s bedchambers and learnt that the king didn’t actually sleep in his, he slept in a small room elsewhere. In the Queen’s bedchamber we met a Jester how told us lots about the Queen and some of us got the chance to try juggling.

We had a look at the cannons and had a picnic lunch next to them.

In the Great Hall we all had the chance to sit on the King and Queen’s thrones and all sat round the top table together.

We went into one of the towers and looked down through a trap door to see where the dungeons would have been below.

There was an area where we could explore some medieval costumes, music, games and painting, solving problems in groups.

We had a great time looking for all the things we had been learning about in class – there were lots of shouts on the bus up of ‘battlements’ when they were spotted!

We saw and learnt much more but you’ll have to wait until our showcase to find out!

Have a look at our photos to give you some clues!

It has been a lovely short week after our long weekend but p1/2 have still been very busy.

We have been learning about hot and cold colours and we have made a castle picture using half hot colours and half cold colours.

In maths, some of the groups have been learning about subtraction and consolidating their learning using  dice games. Others have been learning about the story of 10 using ten frames to help visualise it. We have also been using games on the ipad to help us remember our facts and recall them faster!

We have also been learning about different parts of a castle – for example, battlements around the top of the walls, arrow slits, drawbridge and portcullis, moat and tallest tower called the keep. We are all looking forward to continuing our knight training next week!

The boys and girls in primary 1/2 have been very busy this week learning their words for assembly and practicing hard.

We have begun the process of creating a medieval castle in our classroom after receiving a letter from King Arthur inviting us all to become knights in training – we are very excited to begin our training and learn about castles and the life of a knight through this!

In art we have been making some fireworks pictures from chalk as part of our learning about Chinese New Year.

In maths, some of us have been learning about adding two numbers together and remembering their doubles. Others have began to revise learning about subtraction from last year and developing their understanding further.

We are looking forward to sharing our Chinese New Year assembly with you next week.

This week is book week Scotland and we have enjoyed sharing our favourite books with our friends through show and tell and also reading them with our friends during activities time in the morning. We had a visitor yesterday from Linlithgow Library who shared three stories with us and then asked us to vote for our favourite. The p1s went home with these three books and were looking forward to sharing them with their families.

We have also been very busy making some things to sell at the Christmas fair and we are very excited to show you these next Thursday.

We were listening to The Jungle Book story and we used this to write our own story about living in the jungle. We had some very imaginative stories about playing basketball or football with some of the animals.

Some of the p2s have been learning their spelling words by typing them on a laptop and changing the size and font.

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