What a brilliant afternoon with Primary 7 for some paired reading! We loved having some of our favourite stories read to us 📚

Last week, we used the book Emma’s Counting to explore number. Learning different ways to make the same number, working collaboratively using a variety of resources and numeracy tools to demonstrate how to do this.

We had lots of fun celebrating Halloween at school on Friday. Everyone was so colourful, actively participating in our Halloween STEM activities before heading off to our glow party.

We loved exploring our spooky themed literacy and numeracy learning experiences last week. Developing our blending and decoding skills and building our number awareness.

Nativity notice❗️ We have put the lyrics to the nativity songs and any lines to learn in home link folders today so these can be practised at home. The lyrics can also be found on our class teams page and this is also where backing tracks will be posted in due course. Happy practising!

We read the story ‘How To Grow A Mermaid’ and then created our own mermaid potions 🧜‍♀️ Some of us added shells to grow their tops and we added washing up liquid to make bubbles 🫧

This morning we continued exploring measure. Using non standards of units to measure, capacity, weight and length.

Last week we continued to develop our blending skills. Using our phonics awareness to form, sound and identify our words.

Last week we were exploring coral reefs, learning about the different types found on the ocean floor and how they are used by many creatures for different purposes.

We have kicked off our new under the sea topic by learning about whales this week! We had so much fun creating our own bubbles like whales blowing from their blowholes and exploring whales in our creative area 🐳 We had lots of fantastic questions we explored throughout the week!

This morning, we were exploring patterns, using shape, line drawing and blocks to create and complete the missing patterns.

This week we have been very busy in numeracy. Practising counting forwards and backwards, exploring tens frames and using our problem solving skills to identify whole amounts and missing numbers on our number line.

For outdoor learning this week, we were using our creativity and curiosity to make some transient art. Working collaboratively to share ideas and celebrate success.

This week we have been practising our sounds and working hard on our blending skills.

For outdoor learning today, we had our first visit to the glen. We had fun using our problem solving skills and positive listening to explore our new learning environment.

We were developing our listening and movement skills during PE yesterday. Using the story of the Snail and the Whale to move our bodies to music and spark our imaginations, by travelling round the room like the different characters and objects in the story.

Yesterday, we participated in our whole school sponsored walk. Completing a kilometre in our community, what a fantastic effort by all. 🚶‍♀️

We have been working on counting to 20 and identifying missing numbers in the number line 🔢

We have been learning how to draw our faces and bodies in writing… So far we have drawn ourselves singing, angry, happy and surprised. Everyone has worked so hard!

We have now finished our first block of sounds 🥳 We have enjoyed consolidating our knowledge through interactive games and activities!

This morning, we continued exploring the properties of 2d shapes. Creating shape pictures, playing shape dominoes and using our knowledge of properties to independently create matchstick shapes.

This morning, we were exploring 2d shapes. Starting our learning off with a shape hunt, followed by some dominoes and creating some shape cities! Working hard to identify everyday 2d shapes and their properties.

Here’s all we’ve been up to in our play this week… We’ve had teddy bear’s picnics and city construction galore! Such great teamwork and turn taking on display already 👏

This week in outdoor learning we learned about positional language. We built obstacle courses and then guided our classmates through them!

As part of our book study ‘Mixed’ we were exploring the primary colours, experimenting with colour mixing to see all the different colours we could make. It was so exciting watching the colours change in our hands.

We having been working hard to create our class charter. Taking inspiration from our book study ‘Mixed’, we designed our own charter city, with each individual represented using finger dots.

We had lots of fun exploring our sounds of the week, s and a. Using our rhymes to help us with our recall and letter formation.

We have been learning all about numbers zero and one this week. Exploring a variety of play experience to consolidate our learning.

Last week we read our new class book ‘Mixed’ by Arree Chung 📚 We have used this book in lots of our learning this week…

What a fantastic start to the term! 🤩

We were so excited to share our interests and important facts, through our ‘being me museum’.

What a fantastic first few days of Primary One! Exploring our new learning environment and school grounds.

Celebrating success! 🚗 👷

Whilst exploring Germany as part of our Europe topic. We learned a variety of car brands originated in Germany. This afternoon we had a go at creating our own balloon cars. Putting our problem solving and creativity skills to the test to ensure our cars were successful and met the set design brief.

We would be extremely grateful if you could support P7 and Miss Orr with this wonderful event 👇 🧁 ☕️

A reminder that our picnic is going ahead tomorrow. Please see the below message. 👇🏼

Ready for a fantastic sports day this morning. Well done to all for participating so enthusiastically!!

Yesterday, we had a visit from the Falkirk Science Festival. Kenny hosted a workshop on Shiny Science, exploring a variety of tools which use light. We applied many skills using telescopes, kaleidoscopes, prisms, torches, natural light and upside down goggles. It was a fantastic experience.

Another busy Child Led Learning morning. Today we have been exploring some common words in spelling, using our sense-making skills identifying the life cycles of sea turtles in IDL, expanding on our critical thinking through Sumdog tests and exploring our creativity in free writing.

This afternoon, we brought our transient artwork to life. Using natural resources to create different emotions, then using mark up on our iPads to make our creations more life like.

Continuing on with our thematic maths topic. This afternoon we were consolidating our learning around measure and fractions. Creating pizzas from our menus we created earlier in the week. Confidently demonstrating a variety of meta skills to achieve success.

Last week, as part of our class novel we explored the life cycle of sea turtles. Using our creative skills to recreate each stage of the life cycle.

Today, we completed our marble runs! Using our creativity, critical thinking and collaborative skills to design a successful run.

This afternoon, we continued our topic of Europe. Exploring France in more detail, before exploring a STEM challenge. Working collaboratively to try and recreate some famous French buildings. The Eiffel Tower, The Louvre and Palace of Versailles.

We have been further exploring measure this week, using some active learning stations to expand our knowledge of measuring weight and volume.

This afternoon, we took advantage of the dry weather. Taking our numeracy consolidation outside, participating in some active addition and subtraction games, solving calculations within 100,1000 and 10,000.

This morning, we had a fantastic child lead learning morning. Demonstrating fantastic focus throughout, working hard to achieve and complete learning experiences.

Yesterday, we continued exploring measure, focussing on capacity. Using our prior measurement knowledge to brainstorm ideas and share our learning.

On Wednesday, we were exploring digital coding. Developing our skills using micro bits for the first time as a class.

On Tuesday, we were further exploring Meta Skills. Positively demonstrating our understanding of them and the impact they have.