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In our Thursday workshop, we are creative in our literacy. Children can approach the task with innovation and expand their analytical skills. The challenge was to create a car seat for our baby dragon from our class novel. We had a super range of creations from 3D models using junk materials, Lego, scratch and Adobe. ... Continue reading "Creative Comprehension"

This week we are working on lots of place value experiences through written tasks, interactive games and Lego challenge activities. We also continued our building, thinking classroom lesson today where there was lots of great mathematical discourse and everyone was working collaboratively.

Every morning we split up into our literacy and maths workshop groups. In each group, pupils can focus on the outcomes and skills required at their individual levels. This week we are reading a class text called, The Watchers. We started off skimming and scanning the text for main ideas and this week after reading ... Continue reading "Literacy Workshops"

PE highlights from last week.

Today we had our annual beach day trip at Aberdour! The children's faces lit up as we reached the beach and felt the sand on their skin, it was amazing to see. Lots of learning and outdoor coastal play where the children explored nature, paddled in the sea, looked out for marine wildlife in rock ... Continue reading "Beach Day Fun"

Today we completed our recognition chart ready for the new term. Everyone has had a super few days back in school, so instead of hot chocolate rewards, we celebrated this with a Fab ice lolly!

Today we started to think about our new class charter, learning why children have rights and what the UNCRC is. We had a super discussion led by the upper school group, explaining rights and why the UN created these children's rights. We finished by writing or drawing our ideas on a post it about what ... Continue reading "Class Charter"

We are all very excited to be back at school this week for the new session. We would like to welcome all our new pupils in P1 and a huge welcome back to all returning pupils across the school. This week we have been enjoying playing with our friends again, creating our recognition board and ... Continue reading "Welcome Back Everyone!"