To raise awareness of Children’s mental health week we watched a short assembly from Place To Be. We then read a few short stories to explore the theme if belonging.
Children’s mental health week
Category: Whole School
Art Fridays with the National Galleries of Scotland
Today we explored colour mixing and the Artist Paul Nash. We were thinking independently , problem solving and demonstrating creativity.
Building Thinking Classrooms
Today in our random groups of three, working on vertical non-permanent surfaces, we were solving our rich tasks. Lots of collaboration and pupil discourse. We also evaluated how well we worked together in terms of listening, sharing ideas, turn-taking, working together and being kind.
Benchball highlights
Rights Respecting Champions
Today we had our first Rights Respecting Champion meeting of the year. We talked about new ways of sharing the rights with others in our school, competitions we will organise in the school and making sure we have all our rights on every display. This was a very productive meeting time where all children have the opportunity to have their voice heard, allowing them to participate in decision making, planning and leading new events. This meeting was based on article 12, “ I have the right to be listened to and taken seriously.”
Project Based Learning -Birds
This week we have been continuing on with our project on British birds. Yesterday we went on a lovely winter nature walk with our tally mark checklist. We were tracking daily sightings of winter birds in Woodmuir. The children loved this activity and worked together very well. In our lesson today this led on nicely to talking about an effective tool for visualising our data on bird types.
The children came up with bar graphs to display our sightings and whether we would choose a vertical or horizontal bar graph and how a bar graph should look. Lots of numeracy and maths in today’s lesson which we are ready to log in our individual floor books.
Building Thinking Classrooms
Today we all worked together to solve our maths problem today. We were focussing on the mathematical language and the word ‘ sum’. We also talked about Math Talk Moves and using Reasoning in our groups.
Outdoor learning fun
On Tuesday we had our regular session with Mr Reid. We were very excited to make our own fires and learn all about fire safety. Everyone was engaged in their learning, risk assessing and was connecting with nature. We had a great afternoon and even roasted a few marshmallows!
Performance Highlights from our Burns supper
Burns Supper
Yesterday we had the pleasure of hosting our Burns supper. We were delighted to welcome in our parents/carers and other members of our families.The hall was filled with enthusiasm as everyone read their slide clearly and performed their Burns poem. The children sang a range of Scot’s songs, showing respect for Scotland’s rich literacy heritage. It was a pleasure to see their hard work and preparation come to life in front of an appreciative audience.
This event was a wonderful opportunity for everyone to come together, celebrate Scottish Culture and share their learning with others. We finished off by serving a cup of haggis, neeps and tatties to our grown ups! This was all prepared by the children earlier in the day and Mrs Haston, and it was delicious.
We kept to tradition by singing and dancing to auld lang syne before we left school and we enjoyed a treat of a small drink of Irn bru with shortbread. A huge well done to all the children for their fantastic singing, and thank you to all of our guests for helping to make the Burns Supper so special.
