It was lovely to see such a fantastic effort put in with our World Book Day costumes. There was a real buzz for reading in our classroom and we were lucky to share this during paired reading with primary 6. 📚

We have been learning to divide into groups and find the remainder left over. ➗✏️

There was great excitement following our learning about Mount Vesuvius as we exploded our very own volcanoes. 🌋

As part of our Romans topic we explored Roman numerals and created our own mosaics. 🇮🇹🎨

During STEM week we became engineers designing and constructing our own bridges. 🌉

We made a fantastic job of designing and building our own robots inspired by our class novel ‘The Wild Robot’. We then had the opportunity to present our builds to our peers in @lauriestonp3.bsky.social. 🤖

We have been working on our fitness during this block of PE. We enjoyed trying out the different stations as we moved around. 🏃🏻🏃🏼‍♀️

Using our inference skills we studied the short clip ‘Origin’. We had great discussions around where the robot could have come from and his story using the clues.

We have been exploring fact and opinion. We were confidently able to explain the difference and give examples. 👏

Tying in with our current IDL topic of The Romans we built our own Roman forts during outdoor learning. There were lots of details to consider to keep ourselves safe.

On Safer Internet Day we enjoyed tuning into the BBC live lesson. We then followed this discussing how to keep ourselves safe online and while using devices.

During children’s mental health week we used the story ‘My Many Coloured Days’ to explore how we often feel differently day to day. We created our gratitude jars and enjoyed discussing all of the things we are grateful for. We also joined with @lauriestonp3.bsky.social to do mindfulness yoga. 🧘🏼‍♀️🧘🏻‍♂️

This term we continue to work on our Punchy Punctuation. We are becoming increasingly confident in finding and identifying the missing punctuation in the sentences. 🕵🏼✏️

During outdoor learning we brought ‘Stick Mannies’ family to life. We had to recall lines of the story to remember which family members to include. 📚🌳🪾

We have been developing our knowledge of multiplication. Our pupils love to be challenged to beat their best scores. ✖️

For our writing task we kept with our Scottish focus and made Cranachan. We then wrote up the instructions, recalling the main steps we followed. 📝😋🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Inspired by our Scottish book study of ‘Stick Mannie’ we created our own stick characters. We gathered some natural materials from our local woods to help us. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿📚

We have been enjoying the newly improved spots to sit and book displays in our Laurieston lab. 📚

Our Laurieston legends so far this term. It’s great to celebrate pupils showing our school values continuously. 👏☺️

Our 3 Scottish poetry finalists and overall winner S. A very well done to all who learned and performed their poems. 👏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

This weeks Laurieston Legend awarded for always showing our value of honesty. Well deserved! 👏🏻

Full of festive cheer for Christmas jumper day and our Christmas lunch. 🎄🎅🏼

It was great to pair up again with primary 7 on Thursday for some paired reading as a different way to spend our daily ERIC time. 📚

During last weeks outdoor learning we made bird feeders using apples and seeds to help look after our local wildlife. 🍏🌳

Applying the strategy of visualisation we listened to a description and the sounds of Excitable Edgar before drawing what we thought he would look like. We shared our ideas with peers before revealing the real Edgar in his Christmas advert. ✍🏼👂🏼🎨🎄

Our most recent Laurieston Legends awarded for continuously showing our school values. 👏🏻👏🏻

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. 🌴☀️💧