Primary 5 have reached the end of their Superheroes topic and I’m sure you’ll agree they make amazing Superheroes. The have had to go through rigorous training to become the Superhero you see today and along the way they have helped Not-so-super-Stan become more like a Superhero too. The children have thoroughly enjoyed working with Miss Calder on their topic while learning how to stay fit and healthy. Keep up the good work and happy rescuing!!
Bonjour! Primary 5 had a fantastic French Day on Tuesday 31st March 2015. We had so many activities we had to finish them on Thursday! On Tuesday morning we chopped all the vegetables for Ratatouille and left them to cook in the slow cookers for us to taste at the end of the day. The reveiews were very mixed! We also created collages of French landmarks using coloured paper and lego. Can you guess what they are? French games were also played. Au revoir!
Primary 2 and primary 2/1 would like to thank all our visitors who attended our Daffodil Tea. Thanks to all of your kind generosity we have raised over £300 for MacMillan Cancer Trust.
We had a great afternoon and are so happy to finally have our daffodils at home to watch them bloom over the Easter holidays.
Thanks again to all of our visitors and our kind helpers who made this a wonderful afternoon.
The children have really enjoyed our work on healthy eating this week. Yesterday, we made our very own smoothies. We had created recipes for them earlier in the week, given them names and decided what ingredients we were going to use. Anyone for a ‘Fruity Fantastical Fruity’?
Primary 4 have been enjoying learning Kurling this term. This is a version of Curling played without ice. Each stone rolls on ball bearings. It has given the children the opportunity to learn new skills and develop good tactical awareness. Great fun was had by all.
Last week, Primary 4 went on their trip to Edinburgh. At the castle we met Mary Queen of Scots who prepared us for our Stuart party. We found out how boys and girls would have lived during her reign, dressed up in suitable clothing and learnt a dance. At thePalace of Holyroodhouse we learnt about Mary’s life at the palace and saw the place where her secretary Rizzio was murdered. We also learnt about how members of the royal family have used the palace since. Both classes had the opportunity to explore the Royal Mile when travelling between the two locations and we saw John Knox’s house.
After our Roman soldier visited last week we have been inspired to make a joint class display. At the moment it has our wonderful painted Roman solider, a Roman word wall and some Roman artefacts and books. As the topic continues, this display will be added to.
After the holidays, we will be working in groups to research different aspects of Roman life. We will use books and ICT to find information and then create our own Roman factfile. We will then present our factfiles to the rest of the class and teach them all about our research topics.
In Maths, we have thoroughly enjoyed learning about Roman numerals and are now confident in using them to represent different numbers.
We really enjoyed our French day on Tuesday 31st March and had great fun joining together with the children in P4! We chose our own activities from French Cafe, French Art (Monet), Books and Games and French Quiz. We spent the day talking French and learning about French culture.
We hope everybody has a really lovely Easter holiday!
In P4 we have been creating Scottish art work inspired by our Bonnie Scotland topic. We used pastels to create images of what Scotland meant to us and then added them to a background of the Saltire flag. We were able to enter one picture to the West Lothian Highland Games Art Competition. Fingers crossed we have a 
winner!
The deadline for submitting the P4 book to the publishers is fast approaching. Mary Turner Thomson, our author, has sent us a copy of the book with our illustrations inserted and we are now busy editing it. We are also reviewing the story and illustrations sent by our partners in Mumbai. We really can’t wait to see the final product and share it with everyone at our official book launch at the end of April. Watch this space for more details….
Primary 6b and Primary 1b recently held their class assemblies about the “Value of the Month” for March which was “Fairness” The classes helped us learn more about this value through stories, drama sketches and songs. The value linked with our recent focus on Fairtrade during Fairtrade Fortnight. Many thanks to all involved!
