This week is Children’s Mental Health Week. The main focus is “This is My Place” which is based around belonging. We have created maps of a land full of things that make us feel like we belong 😊☀️.

Writing Competition

This morning we have been lucky enough to take part in a Generation Science workshop all about energy transfer and renewable electricity generation. This afternoon we are working in pairs to crate a marble run, focusing on kinetic energy to knock down standing domino’s 😊⭐️

We are in full preparation for our Scottish Opera performance later this term. Any chance to practise at home would be a fantastic help 😊!

Today we have been using our budgeting skills to find a holiday for a family of four. Lots of great discussion and some amazing deals found. 🕶️☀️

Over the past two weeks we have been learning about financial education. Today we competed a Nando’s task where we had a set budget and we had to come up with different meal options for different sizes of groups and check to see if this fit with our budget.💷🍗

Each week we will be having a “Secret Reader” come along to our library session. This week it was Mr Crawford. I am hoping to open this up to family members in the next few months. Look out for an email for details on how to sign up 😊📚.

Each child will be coming home with this sticker today. Ask us what we have been reading in the library this afternoon 😊📚.

Our first slot in the library this afternoon. We are so excited to explore the books on offer and celebrate Reading Schools Week 📚

Today we have been exploring negative numbers and where we might see them in real life contexts. We spent time researching temperatures. We then went outside to create number lines to help us add and subtract negative numbers 😊⭐️.

We have been discussing and looking at different artists who created paintings of landscapes. We then created our own landscape art pieces, inspired by the view from outside our classroom 😊⭐️.

This week with in writing we created poems that followed a specific rhyme scheme. We planned our rhyming pairs, chose our rhyme scheme and created our own poems. If we had time we up-levelled this work 😊⭐️.

This week we have been exploring BODMAS. We even had a go at a BODMAS escape room where we had to work in teams to solve different problems to escape before the hour was up 😊⭐️.

We have decided as a class that we are going to read for at least ten minutes everyday in class. We have chosen a comfy spot and are ethier reading our class novel, a book from home or using our iPads to read online through Borrow box or Epic 😊📚

Paper copies of the spelling and reading homework have been sent home today.The maths homework will by available on Sumdog from 4 o’clock today 😊

Today we have been doing revision on factors and multiples. I have uploaded a game on to teams that will help with practise, if there is any opportunity to play this at home that would be a great help. We are also focusing on the 7 times table this week 😊.

We will shortly be starting a project about Scotland. Today we started by checking if our surnames were linked to a tartan then we designed our own tartan. We focused on the use of line to create a pattern. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

This morning we have started a joint project with Primary 5 to come up with ideas to revamp our quiet room. We are currently in the planning stages and hope to complete this over term 3 😊.

This week we have started a block on poetry. Our focus was thinking about the language we could use. We recapped similes, synonyms and rhyme and then created poems about our favourite food or drink. Our poems did not need to rhyme if we didn’t want it to⭐️.

Our last picture in 2025! We have had a great second term. I am looking forward to term 3! Thank you for all the lovely presents and support this year. Have a fantastic Christmas and New Year 🎅🏼🎄!

We made Mrs Binnie some retirement cards and invited her in to say goodbye 😊💛!

All ready for our movie afternoon 🍿!

A reminder that at it is our movie afternoon tomorrow. Children can bring in a small snack (no nuts please) and comfy clothes if they would like 😊🎅🏼!

Yesterday we took part in a STEM challenge where we had to create a Santa sleigh and a slope. We spoke about friction and forces and had to use our knowledge of measurement to calculate how far Santa travelled 😊🎅🏼!

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Lots of fun out planting trees this afternoon 😊🌲

Yesterday we created a Christmas rap or poem. Today we created a background beat on GarageBand and preformed this to the class 😊🎅🏼.

More Christmas party pictures 🎅🏼

On the look out for anything that could be used for junk modelling tomorrow please ⭐️😊

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A great afternoon at our Christmas party!I have managed to get an individual picture of everyone who wanted one 🎅🏼⭐️

Z is sharing about her trophy that she managed to get for her progress in tap 😊

A reminder that the Primary 6 Christmas party on Monday afternoon. Children can be collected at lunch to go home and get changed or can bring their party clothes in to get changed on the day 😊🎄

S,L and F are currently leading a lesson on creating Santas and Snowmen. Well done 😊🎅🏼

Today in maths we have been speaking about 2D and 3D shapes their properties and nets. We even created our own 3D gingerbread house using nets 😊🏡

We are hoping to do a Christmas STEM challenge next Tuesday and are on the lookout for any clean cardboard/plastic bottles/egg boxes or any other recycling that could be used for junk modelling. If you have any of this at home could the items be brought in before Tuesday. Thank you for your help 😊🎅🏼.

Fantastic festive fun today to support Strathcarron Hospice 😊🎅🏼

A is sharing her dancing competition routines with us 😊!

This morning we are creating Christmas stories for Primary 1. Next week we will be sharing these with the Primary 1 classes. We have to focus on the language we are using, pictures, colour and the size of text😊📚.

We have been working on fractions, percentages and decimals over the last few weeks. Today we have combined our knowledge of fractions and division to help us with calculating percentages of amounts. We are also having a focus on the 6 times table this week 😊⭐️.

We have created candy cane decorations for the Christmas Fair tomorrow. We focused on shading and highlighting using oil pastels. Blown away with the hard work and focus during this lesson. ⭐️😊

F helped to lead the warm up in P.E. today. Everyone had lots of fun 😊.