We have been very busy over the last few weeks in Primary 1. In Topic Maths we have just finished learning about money. We looked at coins up to 20p and counted coins up to 10p. To help us learn we used pretend money to buy things in a shop and played money games. Our new maths topic is position. We are learning words that tell us where things are such as in front of, above, below and behind. Through our Farm topic we are also learning information handling and are making pictograms using farm animals.

In Language, we are learning our long vowel sounds. These sounds will help us when we sound out words in our reading books and when we need to try and write different words. Primary 1 have been using these writing skills this week to write about their trip to Mill Farm. We had a think about what we did there, what we saw and what our favourite part was.

In Gym, we are continuing to learn our basic skills such as throwing, catching, kicking and bouncing. We are really confident with these now! We have also just started athletics so we have been hurdling, running in a relay, long jumping and running long distance. Every week we will learn more athletic skills and some of these will help us at sports day.

 

This term Primary 1a have gym on a Monday and Tuesday. Primary 1b have gym on a Tuesday and Thursday. Please bring gym kits in on a Monday morning and they will be ready for the week. Thanks.

Primary 1 have just started a new topic, The Farm. It will be a science based topic and children will be learning all about how plants grow, different materials and forces. Pupils will also be learning about different types of farm, farm animals and their young and creating some lovely art for our wall display. If anyone has any expertise in this topic we would love to hear from you.

To learn more about our topic we all went on a school trip to Mill Farm. It was a lovely sunny day and we enjoyed walking around looking at all the different animals. We saw ducks, goats, chickens, pigs, rabbits, goslings and horses. Everyone then had time to play in Morag’s Meadows, which is the soft play, and then we went for our lunch in the picnic barn.

After lunch we had a lady from Mill Farm teach us all about the different animals they have and how they look after them. It was very interesting and we got to be up close to some of the animals. Our last fun activity for the day was time to play at the activities in the bottom field. Everyone had a great day but we were all very tired when we got back to school as it had been a very busy day!

P5 Have been learning about South America. They have recorded ‘palmas’ rhythms from flamenco music. Enjoy!

We are very busy in P7! It is that time of year when we are working very hard on our yearbook. We have taken time to reflect on our time not just in P7 but over the years at Williamston. It has been lovely to look back on the many experiences and opportunities that we have had and consider the highlights of our time here. We have put together personal pieces of writing for our yearbook and have worked hard to make these detailed and full of our thoughts, feelings and reflections. We cannot believe it is nearly time to move on to High School and are feeling excited yet nervous about the future ahead!

P7 had an excellent time at the JYHS Health Conference. We were lucky enough to be put into our tutor groups and had the opportunity to meet our Personal Support Group teacher. It was a fun filled day with workshops in dance, cricket and we even took part in an obstacle course! We really enjoyed meeting new people and making new friends. We are all very excited to meet again at our Induction days in June.

Some of our P7 pupils took part in the ‘Give Cycle Space’campaign where they cycled from Williamston Primary School to JYHS. They were using their skills learned from Bikeability and looking at the safest routes. The children thoroughly enjoyed the experience and look forward to cycling to James Young as S1 pupils in August!