In P5a we have been reading and watching The Witches. Some parts of the Witches show how the witches are scary and strange. What do you think is scariest about the witches?
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Comics Wanted
We are currently trying to create a comics section in our school library. If you have any comics at home which you have read and are happy to recycle please bring them into school and we can add them to our collection. Remember, comics donated must be suitable for primary aged children.
Scottish Children’s Book Awards
During Book Week Scotland the three shortlisted books were read to us by Mrs Hollands, Mr Taylor and Mrs McKenzie. All children have now voted for their favourite book………………..
In 3rd place with 95 votes was “Wanted! Ralfy Rabbit Book Burglar”
In 2nd place with 105 votes was “Mouse’s First Night at Moonlight School”
In 1st place with 129 votes was “Never Tickle a Tiger”
Well done to “Never Tickle a Tiger” a worthy winner. The results of our vote will now be forwarded to the Scottish Book Trust.
Comic Challenge
During Book Week Scotland, children were asked to design and create a page for a comic book. We were blown away by the number of entries. The library afterschool club had an extremely difficult job deciding on the winners.
The winners were:
Primary 1 – Orla, Primary 1b
Primary 2 – Sarah, Primary 3/2
Primary 3 – Eve, Primary 3b
Primary 4 – Jack, Primary 4b
Primary 5 – Connor, Primary 5a
Primary 6 – Erin, Primary 6b
Primary 7 – Marek, Primary 7a
All the winning entries have now been framed and are displayed in school. All entries will be made into books for our library. Well done to all the winners.
P6 Bring Your Own Device
Primary 6 have been trialing ‘Bring Your Own Device’ (BYOD) to school last term to further enhance learning experiences and opportunities.
Just some of the things we have been able to do because of BYOD to transform our learning (these wouldn’t have been able to happen without BYOD so we in P6 consider this transformational!) are…
– Personalise our ‘World News’ time by each being able to look at a variety of news websites, blogs and online resources (we could even choose news stories which linked to our own interests and didn’t have to do this as a class – there were no limits!). Some of us even took this home and continue to read news stories regularly…
– Invite more ‘support’ tools into our art lessons by using ‘line drawing’ features in Google to help us when drawing, creating, inventing ARTISTIC MASTERPIECES.
– Use technology in a much more flexible way, for instance, if we had a research point or a ‘Hmmmm, what was that…?’ moment, we could quickly look it up, saving time and ensuring our learning stayed on track. In addition to this, it feels more like real-time, real-life learning… afterall … that’s what it is like out there!
– Take the LEAD in OUR LEARNING. Some of our learning activities were open ended, such as our ‘Victorian Thinkers Keys’, which allowed us to use our devices creatively and find and explore our own tasks or answers.
– Link up to play Minecraft in large groups and, for the first time EVER, share multiple games (during Golden Time – we all LOVE THIS!).
There are so many more things we want to do with BYOD… but hey… we are just at the start of our journey. So… what do you think about BYOD?
Let’s share our thoughts…
2015 Christmas Concert
A fabulous evening featuring the school Wind Band, Brass Band, Woodwind Group and the Senior Choir! The children shone and showed that hard work and dedication will get you everywhere! Well done boys and girls. You should be very proud
Merry Christmas Everyone!!
It’s been a fun filled week in Primary One. After our star-studded performance on Tuesday morning we partied away all afternoon and enjoyed a visit from Santa Claus. He seemed confident we were all on his nice list! On Wednesday afternoon we had the opportunity to share our learning with our buddies when they came to see Fairyland and helped us make clocks and carriages for Cinderella. Then on Thursday afternoon it was the buddies turn to lead the activities during our Christmas Art afternoon. We hope you like our snowmen and Christmas lights!
We would like to say a huge thank you to all our Primary One families for their support this year and for their generous Christmas gifts. We hope you all have a wonderful holiday and look forward to seeing you all again in 2016.
Parent Council meeting
Our Head Boy, Deputy Head Boy, Head Girl and Deputy Head girl went to a Parent Council meeting on Monday 7th December. We spoke about what children are learning about in our classes, what children are enjoying learning about and why, what children would like to do more of in class and how can the Parent Council help with learning. We got lots of different responses from all pupils involved. Most pupils did not realise that we have a Parent Council so we would like to inform the pupils that we have one and think about how they can help us. Some classes in the upper school would like to do more ICT, maths games and P.E and in the lower school they would like to do more P.E, reading, writing and more topics in their subjects. We created and showed a video at the meeting saying what the children think and this was really enjoyed by all at the Parent Council.
Kiera, Aiden, Amy and Joshua.
P5a Christmas Cookies
Primary 5a have really enjoyed all there work with Mrs Logan this term learning about food. As a treat for their last session they created some Christmas snowman cookies.
P5a Certificates
Well done to Holly, Brodie, Abbie, Scott and Peter for receiving certificates today. Well deserved for all their hard work.
