What a brilliant start to the new school year! P3/4 were all smiles on their very first day back. We took some special photos to capture this moment and to remember how we looked as we began our journey together.
Rory and Ethan
We were very proud to choose our new pupil voice representatives for the year ahead. These important roles give children the chance to share ideas, make decisions and help shape our community.
Pupil Learning Council - giving every class a voice in school decisions and events.
Junior Road Safety Officers - helping to keep everyone safe on the roads and in our community.
ECO Group - encouraging us all to look after our environment and make our school greener.
UNI Kids - making sure our school respects rights and promotes children's rights.
Evie
Lewis
Lacie
Alfie
Primary 3/4 took part in a special activity to celebrate the importance of friendship and kindness in our class. We created a giant friendship web using a ball of wool. Each child passed the wool to a friend in the circle saying something kind about them. Slowly the wool connected us all together and showed that everyone in our class is linked and included.
P3/4 took their maths learning outside to explore place value in a fun and active way. We worked together to make and read numbers and explain what each digit means. Using Place Value boards marked out in the playground, loose objects became the digits and the children built their own numbers - then the class read them aloud and discuused the value of each digit. By the end they were confidently saying things like "the 7 is worth 70" and "the 4 is 4 hundreds".
The children said - "I liked making numbers using sticks" and "It was fun to read the numbers that my friends made".
P3/4 explored lots of different ways to use hula hoops to build our skills. We worked on catching, throwing, aiming, balancing and teamwork through a series of fun hoop games. From target challenges to team relays, the children showed brilliant determination and creativity. Some hoops became goals and others became stepping stones. A great way to practise our physical skills!
P3/4 had so much fun combining art and wellbeing this week. We began experimenting with splatter art techniques - rolling balls through a tray of colour, creating bold backgrounds.
We then moved onto learning what makes us unique and different. We discussed our talents, interests and then drew our own self-portraits to place on top of our vibrant splatter art.
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Our right to play - we took time to explore our new classroom together and enjoyed some fun play activities. The children loved trying out different areas of the room, sharing games with friends and discovering exciting resources we will use this year. Through play, we showed how we can learn new skills, build friendships and use our imaginations.
P3/4 have been busy developing their spelling skills by learning about consonant blends (bl/gl/sl/fl/pl/cl). We explored these sounds in lots of fun and interactive ways.