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Thank you so much for coming along to our open afternoon. We absolutely loved sharing our learning with you all and look forward to next time🦸🦹‍♀️🦸‍♂️⭐️!

A few of the children from the Rights Respecting Club went up to Balliefields Community Centre today to learn more about the community garden. They had the chance to plant some lettuce and had a wee little treat 🥬 😊⭐️.

This week we will be focusing on times tables. Any opportunity to practise these at home would be great. Top marks has lots of free games and I have uploaded a BBC Bitesize link with songs and clips to teams that children can use to help 😊.

A and D are leading a lesson on different languages this afternoon 😊

Primary 6 have worked so hard to gather donations for Martha’s Food Pantry. Thank you so much for all your contributions. These donations will help so many people in the Falkirk community ⭐️.

This week is Dyslexia Awareness Week. We have been exploring what this means and the strengths that people with dyslexia may have. We have watched and taken notes, researched dyslexic celebrities and are currently designing dyslexia friendly classrooms 😀.

S and S shared their Judo achievements from the weekend with the class ⭐️😊.

Today we have been talking with Scott about community 😊⭐️.

This afternoon we are creating adverts using iMovie on our iPads. These adverts are related to our change makers project. We hope to share these with you on our open afternoon 😊.

This afternoon we had the choice of two maths challenges one was to calculate how many squares does the picture contain and the other was to write a maths inspired story using the Maths Week Scotland mascot Finn Finity 😊➗🟰➕➖

This week we are focusing on addition. We have spoken about different ways you can calculate addition problems. We have looked at numbers up to millions and also numbers to two decimal places 😊.

If possible could children be reminded to charge iPads at home, quite a few are forgetting and we don’t have the space to charge very many in the class. Thank you 😊📱

Starting off Maths Week with a Sumdog competition!

We are changed and ready for our class award afternoon. A great treat for a hardworking class ⭐️😊!

S and S are currently leading a lesson on Judo. They have created a PowerPoint and a quiz. They are confident and had clear voices when speaking to the class. Well done 👏⭐️!

We have our class award afternoon tomorrow. Children are allowed to bring a change of clothes and a small snack, if they would like to. Please no nuts 😊

L has been sharing his football success with the class 😊⭐️. Well done L!

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This morning we have been sharing our story with friends in our class. We have chatted and laughed about all of the great stories we have brought in 😊📚

We have been learning about Growth Mindset and given ourselves a challenge of learning how to beat box 🥁.

Another Young Leaders session this week learning all about different forms of communication 🗣️

We have young leader training tomorrow outside. Please remember a jacket in case it is raining 💧.

B sharing her amazing achievements from the weekend 😊!

We are currently taking part in a master class from P7 pupils on how to use IMovie on our iPads 🎥.

Huge well done to our fundraisers who have managed to raise around £50 to help tackle Cancer ⭐️

M&E are leading a really interesting lesson on space which has included interesting facts, a PowerPoint and an online quiz ⭐️😊 Very impressed!

We have been working on French days of the week and months of the year. We are now focusing on French greetings. I have uploaded a link on to teams with a song and help with pronunciation if anyone would like to practise at home 😊.

On Tuesday we started our first Young Leaders session with Mr Bannerman. We spoke about safety and organisation and next week we will focus on communication 😊⭐️.

Today we have been working on our class text Greek Myths. We have read the first story Pandora’s Box and answered questions on this story we are now creating our own Greek vase that we will add to a display 😊⭐️.

In all the slime excitement from this afternoon a few people have left jackets 💧😂

Z and N are currently leading a lesson on making slime. They have given really clear instructions and are really well prepared. I am very impressed ⭐️!

M has created a model of Saturn 🪐. Very impressive!

Every Friday a group of children will hold a short lesson. Last week four of the boys held an incredible football lesson. Setting up four skill stations, a fun game and full football game at the end. The communication and leadership skills from this group were phenomenal! Huge well done ⭐️!

We have had three hot chocolate winners this term so far. All of these children have demonstrated our schools values, both in school and outwith⭐️!

We have had three Star Pupils this term so far who have went above and beyond in school ⭐️!

Homework books are being sent home today.Spelling grids are available on teams along with further information about reading. There will be one Sumdog maths task each week as well. Please let me know if you need any help accessing any of this information.

We are currently exploring Borrow Box on our iPad. We can access lots of different books and comics online and there are some audiobook options. We are excited to share this with you at home. We have spoken about selecting a text that is appropriate to our age range 😊.

Today we have been exploring place value. We have focused on identify all digits up to millions and have also explored tenths and hundredths 😊.

We are now taking part in a live lesson with the author A F Steadman. We are practising our listening and note taking skills 😊.

Starting off our Monday with some mixed media art. We are continuing our “The Great Wave” from last week 😊🌊

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Our class expressed that they would like to learn how to code. We have started off with Hour Of Code where we managed to code a dance party💃.

We have started to create a mixed media art piece inspired by Hokusai’s “The Great Wave” 🌊. We will post some updates over the next few weeks🎨🖌️

We have been taking part in drama lessons. We have been focusing on listening to instructions, group work and presenting to the class😊.

Well done L!⭐️