School Blog

Today we have had a very creative time decorating our snowmen for the windows in Tesco and updating our Golden vision books. We can't wait to share our learning with our grown ups at our Curriculum Cafe tomorrow and we hope you can all join us in the afternoon.

Today we all had wonderful trip to the Lady Victoria Colliery. We walked through two floors of exhibitions, interactive, tours and had the opportunity to retrace the footsteps of thousands of miners and their families. During our workshop we got to dress up as a miner or a Victorian followed by our guided tour from ... Continue reading "National mining museum"

We want to say a huge thank you to everyone who was able to attend our Fayre last Friday. It was so wonderful to see so many people from the Woodmuir community coming together for this special event. The school was full of Christmas cheer and the children had lots of fun.

Today we started to design our individual floor books, recording our project based learning from the past few weeks. This involved lots of planning, literacy, Creativity, communication and critical thinking skills. We enjoyed reflecting on our journeys, recording the process and presenting our favourite parts.

Today we got in to the Christmas spirit by creating our individual wreaths for our Christmas Fayre day on Friday. We can't wait to show these off to our grown ups. Lots of creativity, communication and collaboration skills.

STARS is an end of season finale for riding and pony club competitors. On Tuesday we had one very happy girl sharing her experiences at STARS which is a horse show. We are all very proud of her in Woodmuir PS and want to congratulate her on all achievements.

On Tuesday we had another fun problem to solve in our trios.

Today we had a great nativity rehearsal in class which was our first full run through with singing and dancing. The singing was superb and we had lovely, expression from all children. Our P7/6 children helped lead the practise supporting the younger children with their words.

Today we joined the National Assembly to celebrate World Children's Day. This is an annual event to promote children's rights and improve their welfare world wide. It commemorates the anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the child. We took part in body percussion as part of this assembly.

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.