To celebrate red nose day we took part in their taskmaster challenge. We had to make a boat out of tin foil and count how many marbles it could hold before it sunk. Ask us how much our boats held! 🚤⛵️🛶🛥

We have started our new maths topic on money. It would be really if the children could look at real coins at home 💰🪙💰🪙

We have also been working really hard on our addition and subtraction sums. Today we enjoyed being the teacher marking the work and writing answers on the white board.

This afternoon we made these super animal fact files.

Ask us about our visit from Iain and Dale the puppy today

We had a visit this morning from a police officer with her police motorbike. We learned so much about her job and got to ask lots of questions! 👮‍♀️🏍

This week in our people who help us topic we are learning about post men and women. As part of this we have been trying to learn our own address. Any help with this at home would be apprciated.

Some of the boys worked together to make this fabulous zoo. Complete with car park and dinosaur fossil dig site. Love it! 😍

I've found a few reading books left behind today. If anyone has forgotten theres they can get it from me tomorrow 🙂

All the boys and girls should have came home with this Scots Poem sheet yesterday in their bags. They only need to choose their favourite one to learn off by heart. Don't forget to add some actions! 😊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Today we worked together to sort 2D and 3D shapes. We also inveatigated which shapes can slide, roll and stack.

Happy new year everyone. I hope you had a lovely break. It was so nice to see the pupils back today and hear about their holidays 😊. Our P.E days have changed this term and are now Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Tomorrow we are having a board game day! Children can bring a game from home to play with their friends!

We just wanting to say a huge well done to the boys and girls for all the hard work and effort they put into making our nativity so wonderful! We hope you all enjoyed the show! 🥰😃

All the boys and girls in Primary 1 have made a beautiful Christmas tree decoration which will be on sale tomorrow at the Christmas fayre priced at £1.50.🎄

We have started learning about shapes. Today we were creating pictures using 2d shapes and idenfitying 2d shapes. We had pictures of houses, Santa, owls and robots!

Your child may have came home with words to learn for our Christmas Nativity 🎄 Please go over these every night as we would love it if they knew their words off by heart. Thank you ☺️

Nativity costume letters should be in school bags today. We are now practising on the stage and it is coming together nicely 😀

Information for this Friday 🙂📖📘

We used the I pads to draw pictures of Pudsey. What do you think? Aren't they amazing! 🤩

It is Children in Need day and we have lots of fun activities planned!

Today we were using 10 frames and different coloured counters to help us answer addition questions. Very impressive work 👏

Some of the children worked together to create this zoo. They thought of lots of details and knew what the animals would need.

Today’s activities are linked to our number work. We are learning to recognise number words, practising our number formation and recognising numbers that are presented in different ways such as tally marks 😁

Today we learned about bones and created these amazing x ray hand pieces of art. Don't they look amazing! 💀🦴

Today we read the short story "Not a stick" we then created out own uses for a stick. We had witches brooms, flower stems unicorn horns, surf boards and trucks.

Today we have been using our knowledge of sounds to blend and read simple words. Such amazing work! 😊

Thank you so much to everyone who supported MacMillan today. We still have lots of cakes and will be offering them for sale before break tomorrow for a small donation. If your child would like some please feel free to send them in with spare change which will go to the funds raised for MacMillan 🧁

P7 and P6/7 have organised our yearly Macmillan coffee morning this coming Monday. They would be really grateful for any donations of home baking if you are feeling in a baking mood over the weekend 👨‍🍳👩‍🍳

Look at our beautiful work from today 😍 We were able to order numbers to 10 independently!

2 weeks ago primary 1 put in a request for their favourite books and then today Maggie from Library Services came to visit us with a special delivery!

Today we are learning about the number 10! Our activities are all linked to the numbers 0 - 10 today 😀

This afternoon we went on a senses walk as part of our body topic. We had to think about the different things we could see, hear, feel and smell in the playground 🙂

One of our primary 1's has lost their school blazer. Could you please check that you have the correct blazer at home. It is labelled and we do have this spare one in school.

As we learn about each number we are exploring all the different ways that numbers can be represented including dice patterns, number lines, tally marks and ten frames.

We are learning the s sound. We can say the s sound, sing the s song, identify words beginning with s and we are learning to write s 🐍

P1 would be grateful for donations to help create a calm and homely learning environment. Resources such as lamps, cushions, beanbags, blankets, rugs, small chairs would be welcomed. Along with things such as picture frames, real tea pots, old electrical appliances. Thank you so much in advance ☺️

As the weather turns more autumnal (😢) the boys and girls need to wear their coats outdoors. We would really appreciate if you could practise putting coats on and off, zipping and buttoning and fixing inside out sleeves at home. Thank you ☺️

Today we started learning our initial sounds. Each sound has a name, a sound and an action. Our sound today was a 🙂

Today your child will have came home wearing their new house badge. They can now earn points for their house! More details on the house award system is coming soon. ❤️💚💙💛

Today we were learning about rhyming words. We had to match pairs that rhyme and find the odd one out in a group. We have also been trying to spot rhyming words in stories. You could try this at home too 🙂

Look at our beautiful number 1 work today 🤩

Tomorrow is our first library visit visit 🙂📖Children will bring a book home of their choice, and they can keep it at home until the following Friday.

Today our activities are focusing on fine motor skills. We are cutting, pegging and detangling to build muscle strength in our hands and fingers.