No updates at the moment as I have been writing reports!!!! back soon!

Africa!!!!

WE DID IT!

Thanks to lovely family and friends, the amazing netballers and my fantastic class, we have managed to raise over £1,500! 

First the netball team did a marathon netball match, which killed off any enthusiasm for netball I think...BUT they persevered and they did it! Then we performed Macbeth the Musical and received a load of very kind donations. We are still doing Africa Fun Fun! Week, and we have gone over the total. The cakes for this are making just as much as the entrance fee, so a massive thank you to all the people who made delicious things.

We are going to work out what the excess is, and try to buy some lightweight equipment for the African school, such as pencil sharpeners (which are apparently like hen's teeth) and pencils, if that is alright with everyone. Any ideas for light things I can carry on the plane with me are most welcome.

Thank you again. I really can't thank you all enough. 

Mrs P

Beautiful May!

Lovely weather coming our way any day now! Actually we had half an hour of sunshine for the picnic. Lucky!

I set the children the Teeny Tiny Challenge this week. They had to find things in the garden of these given lengths. The catch was that they weren't allowed to use a ruler. The biggest one was 25 mm... You can see how HUGE some of these guesses were! Hee hee!

We made bunting for the 5th May picnic celebration...

We tried the Teeny Tiny Challenge again, but this was after we did some work on millimetres and centimetres. MUCH better!

We are in the middle of the children's talks...

And we are busy painting the scenery for our show, as well as all the rest...

Finally, we had a super picnic on Friday! Thank you for making it such a beautiful, bright day. The children look amazing!

Have Super Coronation Weekend!

The busiest yet!

Loads happening this week...

I'll attach my Termly Overview here for you to see.

The children heard the story of Le Petit elephant in French, skillfully acted by myself...

The Apples reading group were testing out hidden messages written in milk and lemon juice...

Whilst the Bananas were seeing how long it took for your fingers to turn wrinkly in water. 15 minutes!

We are making banners for our stalls...

...and today we revised with maths games. Good fun!

Last Term!

There is a lot to get done in this lovely summer term. I will post a termly overview next week, but in the meantime, here are a couple of things we did this week.

Mrs Murray ran a Daily Mile with the children...

We primped up our posters for the Africa Fun Fun day...

And made names, mottoes, animals and food to represent our groups.

Have a fab weekend!

The holidays at last!

We have been finishing off lots of loose ends this week like the final chapter of Charlotte Holmes, and all the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory comparisons. That was really fun seeing the interpretations on film, compared with the book!

We didn't manage to get the p7 activities done on actual Red Nose Day, so we had a go at them on Monday.

Then we made elephants!

We were then able to do the moment we'd all been waiting for ....making the chocolate! A huge thanks to Mrs H for helping this to be as good as it was!!!!

Today the children showed the rest of the class the work they had been doing as a follow up to their reading tasks.

Have a fabulous holiday!

Blog for a busy week!

Thank you so much for the incredible work that has been put into the projects. The children are, rightly, very proud of them. We will be preparing talks about their projects for the final term.

In maths we were using angle machines to help us work on compass directions.

We were coding with Tim's tiny robots for Science Week...

Multiplying by 10 and 100, and even 1000, is more complicated if you are dealing with a decimal. We use these number flippers to help!

We've also started posters for the African Fundraising day that we are planning to hold next term. They look fabulous so far.

Finally, we made red noses for Red Nose Day. Interesting modelling girls!

I think that's it! Have a great weekend!

Freezing weather but lots of FUN!

Loads of work this week, and lots of active learning too!

We were using protractors again this week, but this time for actually helping us to DRAW an angle, rather than just measuring it.

A group of the children's reading book was about Coral Reefs, so they made a fabulous underwater scene...

We have been making adverts for our chocolate products. Even Pinky got involved! The monkey has more/better clothes than I do...

We were looking at angles, direction and compass points in maths, so we went outside and made a grid. The children had to direct each other around the grid. It was a lot of fun, but bitterly cold!

Have a SUPER weekend!

March already!

Book day was a lot of fun as the children moved around the school doing book related tasks. Some children dressed up!

Lexie as Trunchbull was truly terrifying!

Miss Irvine gave the children some exciting drama opportunities ...

...and we were lucky to have a visit from Feis Rois again. This time we are doing traditional songs and movement games.

Lots of activities and learning...

We have a rhyme game you can do with a partner and it helps you to remember the French alphabet...

The Cucumber Reading Group have been doing experiments with Miss Irvine. This ones shows how light reacts when you shine it through water.

We play a cool tables game called KABOOM! 

And we play the spelling game Nessy. It is very cool!

The 'Loop Cards' are very tricky.

But the 'Noisy Game' is exactly like its name!

Finally, we have been looking at comparison line graphs and having a wee go ourselves. You'll see what the children have done, as this is the assessment task that will be sent home in March.

Hope you have a fab February break!

A 'mathsy' time this week...

On Monday we searched out leaves from around the playground, and tried o sort them out. We used terms like 'Raw Data' and 'Frequency table.'

Miss Irvine helped the children with addition and subtraction facts using a resource called 'Target Boards.'

Some children were playing a game that involved division. Thank goodness for the division boards. They really help!

Have a lovely weekend!

Thank you so much for coming along to Parents Evenings. It was so lovely to see you!

We continued with 3D shape this week, and the children learned the best way to make a 3D shape using the 'hit one, miss one' method for putting tabs on the net of the shape. They did a great job!

We were tasting lovely chocolate again this week...any excuse...to see if there was much difference between Fairtrade and ordinary chocolate?

And finally, a very warm welcome to Miss Irvine who has come to help in our class for the next six weeks. Lovely to have you with us!

Enjoy your weekend!

Help ma boab! This was a LOOOOONG week, with many fabulous activities!

We had lovely Lisa from Feis first thing on Monday, who was teaching us traditional Scots songs and games.

We were practising how to colour using coloured pencils by drawing a dragons eye. They look spooky!

Now that the weather is milder we're out learning the many rules of netball...

And making beautiful circle patterns using a pair of compasses.

Have a fabulous weekend!

Busy Week!

Lots of shenanigans this week, never mind the snow day! I will attach the Termly Overview here, and also on the Google Classroom. Please book an appointment for your Parent/Teacher interview at Parent Booking  

We looked at where chocolate came from on a map of the world, and discovered the atmospheric and climactic conditions that are perfect for growing chocolate.

On Monday we were delighted to have Lisa from Feis Rois come in and teach us about the accordion and some traditional Gaelic songs.

We have been looking at properties of 2D shapes in maths this week...

And discovering that there are a LOT of right angles in our classroom thanks to our handy right angle testers!

The Termly Overview should attach below. Have a great weekend!

Welcome back!

This is the long term where we get a lot of work done. I will be attaching the Termly Overview on Friday as usual, but right now, I'll let you see some of our activities on this first week back.

The new topic for this term is based around CHOCOLATE! So we were looking at where it comes from, and if it was easy to tell the difference between dark, milk and white. Turns out....it is! But the results might be different when we take away the sense of smell?? We'll try that next!

The children have been illustrating their Festive holiday fun in a cartoon format this week...

We are still enthusiastically working away on Macbeth, so we sorted out who is going to be who today. 

We also practised the battle scene.

In maths we are moving on to looking at shape. The children are drawing pictures with some 2D shapes and naming them.

Have a lovely weekend!

What a lot of Christmassy Fun!

I thought I'd wait till our party to blog the photos from last week.

We made beautiful snowflakes for the ceiling of the class...

They look very wintery when they're finished.

Next contractions, like 'isn't' and 'should've' were the order of the day. Some are easy...some are hard!

Lots of reading involved in this part of the second Charlotte Holmes mystery...

We worked on looking at the different words used, and the traditions at Christmas time in France, as well as talking about the traditions in our own household too.  We had to check with good old Google Translate!

Finally, our party!  

What a lot of FUN! The children were excellent dancers! They only PRETEND to hate social dancing. Hee hee!

Actually they did one of the best Dashing White Sergeants I've ever seen for young children!

Thank you so much for all the goodies. 

We have so much left that we're going to have another feast before everything goes out of date!

IT'S CHRIIIIIIIISTMAAAAAAAAS!

Finally we can let loose on Christmas! Yay!

We had lots of work to do on measure this week. Working with balance and spring loaded scales. At the end of the week, the children were all experts in weighing, so they could be trusted to make bread and butter pudding! Yum!

It was fun to do and delicious!

We made some jolly snowmen too!