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Curriculum cafe – Outdoor learning

Thank you to all our parents, carers and family members who visited our curriculum cafe this afternoon. We are committed to providing children with a wealth of learning experiences and we hope today we were able to showcase the variety of outdoor learning activities we have on offer at Woodmuir primary school. These sessions in school have helped to increase engagement in learning, encourage thinking, teamwork , resilience and creativity. The children sang beautifully and proudly represented our school. We greatly appreciated everyone who joined in today and participated in all the activities on offer.

Art Fridays

Today was our creativity art hour in class where we were learning about Corita Kent. We were learning about the impact of using different colour combinations and experimenting with colour layering and combining. Our creations are fabulous!

Art club weekly highlights with Regina

P2/3 Maths

P2/3 have been learning about weight in our measurement topic. We were estimating then measuring the weight of items in our kitchen. We were all able to estimate what weight these items were (either 1 kilogram or 1/2 a kilogram) then measure them to see how accurate we were.

P4~7 Building thinking classrooms

Today we worked on a problem solving activity called legs in the barn. We had to use our addition and multiplication strategies working with whole numbers and fractions. Lots of groups drew pictures, created a table or used the guess and check strategy.

Children’s mental health week

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.

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.”