Lots going on this week!

Miss Pasek was doing more division with a group.

We were making interesting mandalas using compasses...

Sophie and a friend from Balloch taught us a lot about Deaf Awareness in a super presentation. We had activities to try out too!

Miss Pasek took the children in a very interesting lesson about emotions.

The fabulous Scottish Ballet workshop was a lot of fun.

Ethan and Tilly were very good at winning some points this week!

We had a great game of Fractions Bingo yesterday...and some Desk Drumming today!

Welcome back to the LOOOONG term! We have a new student teacher this term, so a warm welcome to Miss Pasek!

We are making a French village using a lot of the vocabulary we have already learnt, and lots more to come. First the 'families' decided on French names for themselves, and who they were in the family...

...then they drew themselves as their new character...

Miss Pasek was working with the p5s helping them to understand how to multiply decimals by ten.

Meanwhile, the P6 group were looking at Fractons, percentages and decimals.

Lots of Christmas FUN!!!

We made some lovely snowflakes to decorate the classroom. They look very complicated, but there is only really one tricky bit.

We made some very complex coordinate drawings. The P6 children did simpler ones last year, but the Rudolph one this year was incredibly difficult so well done them! 

Thank you to everyone who could make it to our lovely Open Morning. The 'Snowman' Drive was a lot of fun. And the children were so good at the Ronettes Sleigh Ride!

Finally, our parties. A lot of food and a lot of shenanigans!

Have a Wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year from P5/6!

Oh my goodness...what a lot of things we've done!

We started off last week with Mrs P finally remembering to do a Blooket Quiz! All about telling time...

We were making wonderful lego structures, to illustrate how imaginative and individual we can be. Life is like a box of lego...!

Mrs Johnson gave us Christmas activities to do for some start of the day fun. We particularly enjoyed the AI site where you could 'Elf Yourself!'

We are doing a series of quick lessons where the children have to write every day for 15 mins. We are focusing on sentences. It seems to be a problem in all areas of education that children are not using capitals and full stops. We are trialling this technique, so it is early days...

We had a wee game of Time Bingo...

...finally, we have been rehearsing a special treat for you! Secret!

Have a lovely rest of your week!

Some French, clay and beautiful autumn trees...

We were learning some of the smaller classroom objects in French, and playing a game of elimination to practise the words.

We started to make some clay leaves. Biggest problem is that it is very sticky so you have to keep making sure you can take it off whatever surface you are working on!

At the same time, we are finishing off the autumnal trees...

Newspapers and poppies!

The children were looking at the features of a newspaper, so they could try to make their own newspaper report look authentic. They highlighted the features, and annotated them at the side.

We painted some HUGE poppies for Memorial Day on the 11th. They look very effective! Great job P5/6.

Well done to Lewis for winning so many medals at Taekwondo!

Welcome back to a very interesting week.

The children began the week by playing a drama game called SNAP! They have to each dramatise something they got up to on holiday, and then when I say SNAP! they hold still, and the rest of us have to guess what they are trying to show. Can you guess from these pictures?

They then wrote about their holiday experiences in their diaries too.

We were making pumpkins for the Hallowe'en Disco 

We had such a good time at the UHI Newton Room. The children were: recreating the digestive system, checking for bacteria, performing surgery to remove a gall stone, looking at slides of healthy and unhealthy cells and performing a biopsy of a real pigs lung. They were reluctant at first with the more gross things, but very quickly, (and alarmingly!) got stuck in. Thank you to our parent helpers who, like me, probably learnt a lot too!

And finally, of course, the DISCO!

What a VERY busy week!

We were Litter Pickers last week and did we ever find some rubbish! Well done and thank you to the children who picked up every day.

We had a wee game of netball. The children were really good at the training exercises and the actual game.

We got the display ready for your lovely visit on Tuesday. Thank you to all who could make it.

Ava has done really well at her dancing again! Well done Ava!

For this Wellbeing Friday we made water balloons and tried them out. Such fun!

Finally, we had a right good boogie in the hall. Big thanks to the Ruthven House Captains for organising.

Have a fabulous holiday!

More fun with Food!

So now we had to taste our experiments to see if they'd be any good in space.

Air dried experiments were 'interesting' so eating them was banned!😂 However, our freeze dried experiments were safe to eat. Very funny faces though!

Only a day, but lots of foody fun.

The children were doing the first part of the HQAT (High Quality Assessment Task) for Health and Wellbeing. We tasted REAL space food, then we cut up fruit ourselves to experiment with different ways of drying them. Looking at what makes a healthy diet in space! Tenuous but there you are.😂

We were visited by a STEM representative who explained about the difference between equality and equity. We drew examples and then did some drama.

Have a fabulous weekend!

We're back on! Hurrah!

Sorry for the delay but we're up and running now!

We've been up to lots and lots BUT we've only got a few photos of Ruben from Feis so far. We will remedy this asap! Here are the photos from this week.

There are a few more from a fun game he played this week...