To finalise our Scottish Book Week celebrations we had books and biscuits in the woods today. With it also being World Children’s Day we afterwards enjoyed ‘Fun 31’ honouring children’s right to play. 📚🪵🌳

Throughout Scottish Book Week we have enjoyed watching an authors live session which tied in with our rainforest topic. We also paired up with our Primary 7’s to spend time reading together. @lauriestonp2-1.bsky.social @lauriestonp7b.bsky.social

We kicked off Scottish Book Week with a trip along to our Laurieston Lab. We enjoy exploring and borrowing new books and having the opportunity to read with a friend. 📚

We have been exploring time. We have been enjoying a range of written and more active tasks to further develop our understanding. ⏰⌚️

Our recent Laurieston Legends who consistently show our school values. Well deserved! ☺️👏🏻

This week we had two Laurieston Legends from our class. Two fantastic role models to others. 👏🏻👏🏻

During outdoor learning we combined our learning about rainforest animals and our knowledge of measure. We carefully measured out to create replicas using natural materials. 🐒🐍🐘🦎

As part of our learning about Fair Trade we worked together to create our persuasive posters to encourage people to choose such products. 🍌🍫

A well deserved Laurieston Legend award for L who has been showing our value of inclusion. 👏🏻👏🏻

During outdoor learning today we were busy collecting resources to create our very own nature crowns. Some chose to create a pattern of colours or stick to one shape or style of leaf.

We are excited about our PTA Neon Glow Party on Friday afternoon. See the information below 🎃

Our creative writers working on their Autumnal pieces today. It was lovely to read how each had taken our prompt and adapted this in their own individual ways. ✏️🍁🍂🎃

As part of our Rainforest topic we have been exploring the difference between living and non living things.

A proud Laurieston Legend chosen for always showing our value of respect. 👏🏻👏🏻

We have been enjoying learning a new word each week using the Word Aware techniques. 👂🏼👏🏻🎬🎵

Inspired by our class novel ‘The Explorer’ we created our own Rainforest survival kits and wrote our own versions to the story so far. ✏️🌴🦜

Our Laurieston Legend this week chosen for showing our value of achievement. 👏🏻

We have continued our work on invasion games during PE. This week we competed in mini basketball games. 🏀

A den building challenge sparked great engagement and enthusiasm today during outdoor learning. Some fantastic ideas on display and making sure to meet the required criteria. 👏🏻🌳

Our Laurieston Legend chosen today for always showing our value of honesty. Very well deserved! 👏🏻☺️

Our first Laurieston Legend of the year who was nominated for consistently showing our value of nurture. 👏🏻👏🏻

We had a lovely morning visiting Meadowbank library. We enjoyed listening to a story, exploring the equipment used by the librarian’s and the many books available to us. We even ticked off 6 kilometres of walking too. ✅📚

We have recently started our Rainforest topic for this term. We have been exploring the different layers, the species which would live each and their reasons for doing so. 🌴☀️💧

A fantastic visit from Moo Maths @fvrhet.bsky.social on Wednesday. We learned about the life cycle of cows and were able to put our volume skills to the test to measure how much milk we could produce.

This morning we introduced our Lending Library. We have kindly been sent a variety of books from @lrsfalkirk.bsky.social ranging from picture books to novels. Every Friday we will now exchange our book for a new one and will have the opportunity to recommend to our friends. 📚#LaurReads

Our outdoor learning session brought the crayons in our book study to life. We recreated the characters using natural materials and some of us even managed to add emotions too. 👏🏻📚🖍️🌳🌿

This week we began our focus on invasion games during PE. Great enthusiasm was on display. 👏🏻🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏼‍♀️

As part of our book study of The Day the Crayons Quit we wrote to Duncan to persuade him which crayon is the best. We took inspiration from the letters within the book to write our own. ✏️🖍️

A trip to the woods this afternoon with @lauriestonp3.bsky.social and @lauriestonp4.bsky.social this afternoon to kick off our outdoor learning sessions. Two of our boys had found a bulb and were keen to replant this to see what will happen. 🌱🌳

We have been exploring the emotions felt by each of the crayon characters in our book. The class shared some fantastic emotion word examples relating to Emotion Works Orange Cog. ⚙️ 🖍️📚

We have had our first visit of the year to our Laurieston Lab. During our session we together read ‘The Day the Crayons Quit’ as an introduction to our book study. We were also very lucky to be joined by Mrs Ferguson to share her wisdom about the library. 📚 🖍️

A lovely first day as primary 4/3 📚✏️☀️

We created our bucket lists of ambitions for the year ahead. I look forward to seeing so many superstars achieving their goals. 🪣⭐️

A class full of confident individuals rounding off our Europe topic presenting to their peers. 👏🏻🌍🇪🇺

We have created some fantastic images of St Basil’s Cathedral as part of our learning about Russia. 🇷🇺

We have been consolidating our knowledge of core numeracy. On this day our focus was multiplication. We are growing in confidence using both our mental agility and the support of our multiplication squares.

An exciting STEM challenge tying in with our IDL topic. This afternoon we created balloon cars. We applied a number of our meta skills in order to be successful, communicating with one another and using our critical thinking to solve design issues. 🚗

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

We have been developing our knowledge of position and direction. We have explored coordinates, positional vocabulary and compass points. 🧭

2 more sleeps until our @strathcarron.bsky.social coffee morning! We are blown away by the donations for the tombola and raffle from our community and generous local businesses. Any other donations or home baking should be handed in by end of day tomorrow, P7 really appreciate it! 🩵🩵🩵

Summer disco letters in school bags tonight! 🕺

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

We were very excited to have Kenny from Shiny Science visit us on Tuesday to deliver the Light Lab session. What a fantastic selection of resources we explored developing our understanding of light and reflection. 🔦☀️

We were very excited for our sports day! All children participated with great sportsmanship and should be proud of themselves. 👏🏻❤️💚💙💛

Lots of hard work from P3, P3/4 and P4 pupils during our trip around Europe topic! We’ve been mixing classes and visiting @lauriestonp4-3.bsky.social and @lauriestonp4.bsky.social to learn about different countries in Europe! In the p3 classroom we visited Iceland 🇮🇸

During PE today we were getting ourselves prepared for our upcoming sports day. Some excellent skills on display! 👏🏻

With our focus of money and reading our novel Charlotte’s Web, this afternoon we were given a budget of £100 to create a farm. We added in the animals and items from the price list given, deciding on how many of each we could afford. One group even discussed how they could cleverly make money. 🐖🐄🐑

Using inspiration from the story ‘Milo’s Money’ we used role play to demonstrate how money makes us feel. We have also been looking at the difference between spending and saving.

Our second week of art skills group saw us using pointillism to create our summer pictures. 🎨👩🏻‍🎨👨🏼‍🎨☀️

We have been using the story of ‘Milo’s Money’ to provide context for our maths. This weeks focus was on how money makes us feel and how we can use it. We worked in teams to a budget and decided on the items we could afford to spend this on. 💷💷