It’s Sports Day tomorrow!🥳 Please wear your P.E. kit and bring a water bottle 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️ You can wear your house colours too if you want but no football strips please 🎽👟 Reminder of house colours: Bell - 🔴 Somerville - 🔵 Fleming - 🟡 Wallace - 🟢 @beancross.bsky.social

First stop at Southwaite Services complete! 🥪 The children have all had their snacks and are refuelled for the next leg of our journey. Back on the road now and heading south. 🚌 🇬🇧 ✨

Lunch break at Norton Canes services enjoyed! 🥪🍎 P7 are well-fed and ready for the final stretch as we bypass Birmingham. Next stop: London! 🚌🏙️🇬🇧

We have arrived safely at PGL Marchants Hill! 🏁🌲 Cases are unloaded, and the children are straight into the spirit of things with some games planned to kick off the week. 🏃‍♂️ We will be heading to our rooms later this afternoon to get settled in. ✨

🎉 Our Welcome Meeting and our Groupie - Matilda. 😃 New call back: 🗣️ To Infinity 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️ AND BEYOND! 🎤

Dinner time at Marchants Hill! 🍝🥗 We’re are currently in full swing, mastering some 'repeat after me' songs as we walk - the atmosphere is brilliant! 🎶🎤

🇬🇧 We’re all set for our London trip on Monday. 🎉 Children are to arrive in the main hall between 5:30am and 5:45am for a 6:00am departure. Please keep Kenilworth St. clear for the coach. Please pack lunch / snacks in hand luggage. See you then!

We have been experimenting using green screen! We are looking forward to sharing our Spanish weather reports soon! 🇪🇸 🌤️☀️⛈️🌬️💨🌦️ @misspenn-bps.bsky.social

We also managed to get 3 characters moving at the same time. We really enjoyed Scratch Jr.

Upcoming dates for your diary.

Well done to this girl - great dancing achievement! 👏 Thanks for sharing with us @mrslangbps.bsky.social

This afternoon we presented timelines on famous Scots of our choice, complete with some fantastic PowerPoints and Canva designs to support our talks!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Well done to this boy for being this week's star writer. He wrote a sentence about The Three Little Pigs, using his knowledge of Colourful Semantics 🌟

Yesterday we tried some Scottish foods and gave them stars out of 5. Ask us what we tried and whether we liked or disliked it 👍👎

Today we are dissecting daffodils to help us learn about the anatomy of a flower.

Primary 6 are having a great time in Lockerbie. It might be raining ☔️ but that’s not stopping the fun! Axe throwing and zip line are next! 😃

Well done to these girls for reaching ‘Top of the Chart’ what an amazing achievement! Also a huge well done to this years first ‘Star of the Week’ pupils. you have all worked so hard, well done. 👏 @mrsswanbx.bsky.social

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scots Poetry🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 This morning we started learning ‘The Coming o The Wee Malkies’ for our Scots Poetry Competition. We all have a paper copy home with us to practise with as well as a digital copy on Teams and OneNote. We will have a poetry recital in class on Thursday.

Group 4 💜 We have stopped for lunch 🥪 @mrawatson.bsky.social @beancross.bsky.social

Group 4 💜 All happy eating out lunch at the service station 😊🥪 @beancross.bsky.social

P2 practising the 5 finger strategy on our magnetic boards.

Golden Time Fun in P2.

Practising our 5 finger strategy in phonics. 🤚

Lots of great reading in P2M this week. 📚

Some great examples of fun ways to practise our spelling and phoneme words. 🧜‍♀️🦖✋

We have had a fantastic #EuropeanDayofLanguages in P5P. We listened to stories in Greek and French, created presentations on national animals on Canva and continued learning a language of our own choice on Duolingo!👏 @missmcguckinbps.bsky.social

Thanks to the funding we secured from @mathsweek.scot we have been able to create ’number adventure kits’ to go home with our families! Each kit has a different focus: ‘Number and counting’, ‘pattern and shape’, “‘movement’ and ‘measure’, providing our families different opportunities to learn. 📏🔢

@misspenn-bps.bsky.social We used Lego Spike to synchronise the motor movements of our ‘break dancer’ to keep rhythm with light and beats! What do you think of his moves? #STEAM 🕺🏽💃🏼

Our new STEM newsletter is now available, packed with news, resources and support for science and STEM education. blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/stemnation/2025/09/10/september-2025-newsletter/

Some fantastic phonics work in P2N. We were learning to work in partners to take on the roles of Word Reader and Word Maker, revising the ‘ck’ phoneme.🤝

Some fantastic phonics work in P2N. We were learning to work in partners to take on the roles of Word Reader and Word Maker, revising the ‘ck’ phoneme.🤝

Because tomorrow is Roald Dahl Day, we watched a clip from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. After we worked with our buddies to create a new chocolate bar then we shared them with the rest of the class @misspenn-bps.bsky.social @missmeiklebps.bsky.social

This week we have been reading the story of Stickman. This pupil created an amazing stickman using natural materials 🧍‍♂️

We have been learning how to count up to 4, form the number 4, and show 4 in different ways 4️⃣

Last week, the Helicopter Fairy visited our class and left us Helicopter Story jotters as a present 🚁🧚 We wrote our own stories and then acted them out, it was so exciting, and we came up with lots of creative and interesting ideas 📚

We’ve been exploring 2D shapes 🔴🔷 We used lots of different shapes to create pictures and they looked wonderful 🤩

We’ve been exploring rhyming words 🎶🐭 With The Gruffalo book as our guide, we spotted rhyming pairs and matched them up🦉🦊🐍

This week some of the children have been fascinated with caring for babies 👶🏼 They carried out check-ups to listen to heartbeats ❤️, gave “immunisations” 🩺, and checked weights to make sure the babies were growing strong 🧑‍⚕️✨

Some pictures from our place value lesson. We have been working on Hundreds Tens and Ones.

On the first week of school we created our own ‘All About Me’ gameshows and played them in our groups ☺️

P7M 25-26 🥳💜

Egg Carrier STEM Challenge 🥚 What a success! The majority of our egg carriers managed to keep our eggs safe as we dropped them off the trim trail 🥳

We have been learning how to stay safe online 💻 We enjoyed playing ‘Interland’ to reinforce our learning 👾

We have been sharing what we have learnt from reading our non-fiction books 📚

We have been learning to write numbers in words 🔢 We worked in pairs, rolling our dice to give us a number and then raced our partner to write the number ✏️

P7 are very excited to be participating in rugby lessons led by Grangemouth Stags RFC for the next 4 weeks 🏉 Sessions will take place on Thursdays, starting Thursday 18th September. Please ensure your child brings a full change of P.E kit and a change of shoes for these sessions 👟

P7M Class Charter ☺️ We decided we wanted everyone’s handprints decorated with things they love as our theme 👏 We discussed what rights were most important to us and decided how we could ensure everyone gets their rights met 💜 @rightsbeancross.bsky.social

Once we finished we wanted to spend some time playing with our buddies 💜