School Blog

This afternoon we had our second bikeability session focussing on using our brakes properly and following a route in the playground with lots of control. In level one we are learning to maintain our cycles, glide, pedal with control and being aware of our surroundings.

Starting this week with a visit to Breich Woodland in Spring, looking at the changes since Winter. We were on the lookout for bluebells, which we saw, animals coming out of hibernation, which we didn't see, and the birds singing and building their nests. We collected sticks to make kites to make the most of ... Continue reading "Forest School"

Yesterday we worked collaboratively on two thinking tasks.We worked on a curricular and non-curricular maths tasks following our building, thinking classroom rules. Everyone was engaged and involved in super maths discussions.

Today we were practising our estimation skills and measuring using different instruments and units if measured. It was lots of fun choosing what to measure and getting outside too.

This morning we had lots of fun learning more about equivalent fractions and then finding equivalent fractions using Sumdog and fun games like snap and snakes & ladders.

As the weather is becoming brighter and a little warmer we were inspired by our classroom flowers. We looked closely at pictures made with oil pastels and discussed how great pastels are for drawing and making bright artworks. We practised some pastel techniques before starting to create our flowers! They look amazing, we are all ... Continue reading "Brighter Days"

This morning we had an exciting Italian visitor from West Calder high school. We had great fun learning numbers and playing some fun language games.

Today we started to explore explanation texts and recognising the features of these texts in our library books. We will use this to help in our writing pieces tomorrow.