P2-4 have been working hard to finish their clay pinch pots - just in time for Mother’s Day! Perfect for keeping wee trinkets in or simply having on display. Ask your child how they made it 🥰👩🏻‍🎨 @missmelvillebps.bsky.social @mrsinclair.bsky.social @mrsmclachlan.bsky.social @mrsswanbx.bsky.social

For Scottish week we designed our own Scotland flags and filled them with some of the interesting Scots words we had learnt during the week 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

We have been working really hard this term on our 4 operations in maths. We have been using our knowledge of place value to help add 2 digit numbers together 🤩

What a fun afternoon we had 🫶🏼

Excited faces today for our Pyjama and Christmas movie day 🍿🎬🎄

Party pictures 2/2 🎄🪩✨

Party pictures 🎄🪩✨ 1/2

Enjoying our party food after a busy afternoon of games and dancing with our friends 👏🏼

All ready for our Christmas party ✨🪩💃🏼

Thank you so much to our families for coming along to our Christmas sing a long this week. We had so much fun 🎅🏼😃 Well done Primary 2 so proud of you all 💜

Christmas Lunch 2025 🎅🏼🍴❤️ @missmillerbx.bsky.social 2/2

Christmas Lunch 2025 🎅🏼🍴❤️ @missmillerbx.bsky.social 1/2

The gift of joy 🎁 Last week we discussed as a class things that brought us joy. We drew pictures in our presents of what made us happy to display in our classroom 😃 We discovered lots of us like to spend time with our families 🫶🏼

A few pictures from our Fun with Narrative sessions this term. 😃 We have loved taking part in these sessions and being able to learn about different literacy concepts through our favourite stories 📚 @mrscummings.bsky.social

To start off our space topic we got to do some of our own recent using QR codes, fiction and non fiction texts as well as some pictures. We loved filling our KWL grid with our questions about space 👽🚀🪐

We recently learned about children’s rights and what international aid means. We discussed how organisations work together to help support communities. We drew pictures showing things we could give or do to help people in less economically developed countries 🩹🍞💦

We took part in some maths stations to allow us to put our knowledge of the 2 times table to the test. We were able to work independently and with our shoulder partners 👍🏼

We have been learning our 2 times table in primary 2 this term 👍🏼 We are gaining confidence in counting by 2’s ✖️

Happy Halloween 🎃👻 Lots of happy faces with our fab costumes on 👏🏼

As advertised in our annual overview, pupils are welcome to dress up for Halloween tomorrow if they wish to. We kindly request no weapons, no masks and no football colours are worn.

📣 P2N Homework There is no homework uploaded this week for P2N. Homework will be posted week beginning Monday 3rd November.

What a busy Term 1 we had in P2N. Here is a quick recap of some highlights ⭐️

P2 worked so hard today during taught writing. We were writing about our favourite animals 🐅🦒

‼️📣 P2N P.E Days 📣‼️ Our P.E days are a Monday and a Tuesday, please ensure you have a full change of P.E kit🏃🏼

We have been working really hard this term on our place value. We have been partitioning 2 and 3 digit numbers 🔢

⚽️ SPONSORED SPORTATHON 🏊🏼‍♀️ I’m not sure where to start with our sponsored Sportathon event, which we held tonight @grangemouthhs.bsky.social A massive thank you to the kids and parents for going above and beyond with their support. And our staff team, you won’t find anyone else like them!

Sustainable Living ♻️🌊 1/2 As our last project of Primary 6 we have decided to create our own sustainable communities. Last week we designed our communities and created a map. This week we are looking forward to building our cities with junk modelling, clay and LEGO 👷🏼‍♀️🧱

Theme Park Maths update 🎢 Today we had to calculate the running costs of our park. We had to estimate the running costs of our rides and remember to pay our employees and cover costs of cleaning and maintaining our park. This was a lot more money than we were expecting 🤯

Over the past 2 weeks we have been visiting primary 3 to make some flags and summer fans with them. We loved being able to help the P3’s and become teachers ourselves 😊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿☀️ @missmci-bps.bsky.social @mrsmclachlan.bsky.social

Last week we welcomed Stevie, Ross and Karen back to our school to showcase our finished Little Kerse Projects 👷🏼‍♀️ We presented some fantastic podcasts, videos and booklets 👏🏼🤩

We had so much fun at sports day today ⚽️🏅 Well done to everyone for taking part and trying your best 🤩

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 🎽👟 Bell - 🔴 Somerville - 🔵 Fleming - 🟡 Wallace - 🟢 @beancross.bsky.social

Reminder that P6M have Bikeability Monday to Thursday this week (WB 26th May.) -pupils should dress appropriately for cycling 👟 -own helmets can be brought to school for these sessions. (Long hair is best to be tied back for these too.) 👱🏼‍♀️ -school bikes will be used for these lessons. 🚴🏼‍♂️

Theme Park Maths 🎢 Today we started our theme park maths mini project. We have been given a budget to build our park and have certain success criteria to meet. We will be working on this over the next few weeks 😁 We will keep you posted with updates on how we are getting on 🤩

We have recently been studying a variety of literacy techniques over a series of lessons. We have looked at adjectives, adverbs, imperative verbs and prepositions. We created our own dragon training guides to share our knowledge 🐉👏🏼 1/2

Practical Science Stem Week 1/4🧬🧪👩🏼‍🔬 We really enjoyed visiting the Careers Fayre and learning about different jobs that involve practical science.

⚽SPONSORED SPORTATHON🏀 Please remember to sign up for the sponsored sportathon on class for kids using the link; beancross-primary.classforkids.io/info/96 All sponsor forms were emailed to P5-P7 parents. If you don't have one please ask your child to speak to Miss Lesko.

Spring Acrostic Poems 🌻🍃🐑

This term we have been learning about Measurement and Instruction writing. We put our learning into a real life context by baking our own vanilla cupcakes. 🧁 We had to follow the recipe and weigh out our own ingredients ⚖️ 👩🏼‍🍳

Little Kerse Visit 👷🏼‍♀️⚽️ We had the best time visiting little Kerse last week as part of our Building our Future Together project. We got the opportunity to ask questions to the different trades involved in the project 🔨🚜🏦

Craft, Design and Engineering Stem Week 2/2 👷🏼‍♀️ We built our ride’s using the K’nex. This was a new resource to us so we found it difficult to work with at first but we all helped each other to be successful 👍🏼✂️

Craft, Design and Engineering Stem Week 1/2👷🏼‍♀️ Our task brief was to create a new amusement ride for the shows at the Children’s day 🎡 We had to brainstorm and plan what our ride would look like and how we were going to use the K’nex materials we had been given to build it 🔨

Uniform Drop-In Shop Tomorrow 9:30am-2:30pm We have donations some new and lots of used uniform items and jackets. 🧥👚👔👕 We also have lots of unclaimed lost property. Bring and fill a bag. 👍🛍️ @beancrossprimaryschool

Building our Future Together 👷🏼‍♀️🔨 We have been so excited to get started on this project with Little Kerse and DYW. We explored the role of an Architect, completed information posters showing our findings and shared this with our peers. How fantastic are these posters 👏🏼👏🏼 @dywforthvalley.bsky.social

During term 3 we took part in some rugby taster sessions. We all loved being able to get outside and active. Playing Hawick ball helped us to develop our communication and teamwork skills. 👍🏼🏉

Food and Textiles Stem Week ✅ Careers Fayre to learn about different jobs in the food and textile industries. ✅ Up cycling our T-shirts into no sew bags. ✅ Making our own sausage rolls. We had so much fun - the best part was definitely eating the sausage rolls 👍🏼🤩

We are so excited to now share our learning journey on Blue Sky 🤩 Exciting updates on our learning coming soon ✏️✨

‼️📣 P6M P.E Days 📣‼️ Our P.E days are a Wednesday and a Friday, please ensure you have a full change of P.E kit🏃🏼

🚀 STEM Marketplace at Beancross for Parents! ✨ Join us for our second STEM showcase of the year, this time focusing on Craft, Design & Engineering! 🎨🔧 Our first event celebrated Coding, Food & Textiles—now come see even more creativity in action! @mrsmcleish.bsky.social

P6 are diving into the world of construction with Little Kerse and DYW! They’ve been exploring architects’ plans and will visit the site next week to interview a range of trades. A fantastic opportunity to see skills in action and bring learning to life! #DYW #STEM