We really enjoyed performing our assembly to family members and Nursery to Primary 3 today. Miss Trotter was very proud of us all.
We have been learning a lot about the value of the month, Friendship. We know how important friends are to us and how to be a good friend. We will treat our friends like we would like to be treated because…. ‘The only way to have a friend is to be one.’
This week Primary One have been introduced to 3D shape. We have been looking all around us to spot cylinders, cones, cubes, cuboids and spheres. Can you spot these shapes at home? Perhaps you can bring in some examples to show your classmates? 
Thank you to all who came to watch the Primary 4 assembly on Friendship this morning, Friday 4th December.
We celebrated Book Week Scotland last week. The Library After-School Club organised lots of exciting activities for the whole school.
The three books shortlisted books for the Scottish Children’s Book Awards were read over the tannoy by Mrs Hollands, Mr Taylor and Mrs McKenzie. They did an amazing job! We voted for our favourite and the winner will be announced shortly.
Teachers swapped classes and read from their favourite books and we took part in paired reading where the upper classes read to the infant classes. Members of the Library After-School Club ran a “Cover Book Quiz”. They read the opening paragraph from a selection of books and we had to identify the book, it was quite tricky!
To launch the new comic book section of the library we asked pupils to design and create a page of a comic. The After-School Club now have the unenviable task of choosing the winners!
More news to follow………..
Primary 5 attended the Sky Academy studios on Wednesday 2nd December and had a fantastic time. We were shown how news reports are made from beginning to the finished product we see on the news. It was fascinating!
We had to work in teams of six to plan, write and film our section of the news report. We did this in four different studios with a deadline to meet and we each had our own job to do. Once we had all finished our section of the news report it was put together as one whole report about pocket money.
At the end of our session we had the opportunity to view our finished report, it was amazing. We all worked extremely hard and collaborated well together. Every pupil was awarded a certificate and given a copy of the news report on a USB to take home. 
In Primary 5 we have been learning about Solids, Liquids and Gasses. We have carried out experiments to study them. So far we have created filters to clean water, made salt crystals and today we created our very own lava lamps. Oil and water have different densities and thus oil will sit above water. We use food colouring which mixes with the water to make a pretty colour. We then added alka seltzer tablets which react with the water to make a gas, which then rises up through the oil as bubbles.
Yesterday, the Primary 5a children had the opportunity to go to the sky academy where they learnt all about news reporting. They had to work in four teams to create a news report. They were each given a set job in there teams. There were producers, camera operators, editors, reporters, script writers, directors, an eyewitness and an expert. Our report was all about money and pocket money in particular. Once all the four teams had completed their work the clips were put together to create one news report, which was fantastic. The children showed great teamwork throughout and were very happy to each be given a memory stick with there film on to take home with them at the end of the day.
This week we have learnt the ee sound. Can you make these words? feed seed seen meet feel deep
How many more ee words can you find? Why not post them below?!
