School Blog

Today we were investigating our school library and finding books that made us laugh, creepy books, non fiction texts, shorter books and novels. We had a little competition as part of book week Scotland and had lots of fun.

Today in maths we used our Maths Talk Moves vocabulary to solve another problem! There was super discussion, cooperation and collaboration from each group. We are developing our critical thinking skills every week as we work through our problems.

Highlights from our Winter Fayre preparations today! We are all very excited to showcase our Christmas themed games and raise money for our school.

Theme: From teeny- tiny to towering Focus artwork: Spider by Louise Bourgeois Today we explored the work of Louise Bourgeois looking at scale, emotions and memories in art work. We had a go at creating sculptures using only newspapers to explore scale- tiny and huge. The children developed and communicated their ideas, demonstrated imagination and ... Continue reading "Art Fridays"

Today we started to design our Fayre game thinking about our theme, decorations, the title , goal, players, rules and materials we will need to collect. We also sketched our game and discussed prizes! Again lots of the Woodmuirps skills were visible today including communication, collaboration, creativity and critical thinking.

Fabulous Fireworks

Today we started our new term 2 topic where pupils voted for a Christmas Enterprise theme. Lots of great discussion resulted in everyone choosing to create a game for our winter Fayre . Lots of skills were visible in our random groups such as integrating knowledge and skills to foster critical thinking, collaboration and communication. ... Continue reading "Project Based Learning"

A few highlights from our problem solving maths session today! Super communication and collaboration skills.

The children had a great Halloween party this morning including lots of dancing, fun party games, party food, sweeties and prizes for all. Highlights were corners and dooking for apples. We showed off our spooky costumes and everyone looked spectacular! Thank you to all our lovely parents and carers for all of your support with ... Continue reading "Spooky Halloween Fun"

Woodmuir had our first Curriculum Cafe of the year! We had walk down the streets of Paris and beyond, seeing our replications of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre to name a few. Then we got to see some of our favourite artists work - Monet and Matisse. Thank you to all our parents who ... Continue reading "Curriculum Cafe"

Today in creativity hour we practised a different technique using various brush strokes with watercolours. We were inspired by the artist Monet and his river paintings. Once we painted the sunset we then painted the reflection using warm colours in long strikes. After our paintings dry we will paint on the city scene in dark ... Continue reading "Watercolour sunset"