School Blog

Today we worked on our fitness, throwing and catching skills with Sam. A super session where everyone worked together, showing respect and kindness to each other.

Yesterday we had a super Maths session with the whole school. Everyone was trying different methods to problem solve using addition strategies.

p2/3 enjoyed exploring length using rulers and meter sticks today. We estimated the lengths of different objects then checked our answers! Everyone did a great job!

Our upper school children have started to provide games at lunchtime to liven up and structure the children's play times. This helps to keep all children active, safe and happy. Today was a great success and is helping to develop our young leaders in p6/7 with a variety of leadership skills and confidence through physical ... Continue reading "Lunch time leaders"

Thank you to all our parents, carers and family members who visited our curriculum cafe this afternoon. We are committed to providing children with a wealth of learning experiences and we hope today we were able to showcase the variety of outdoor learning activities we have on offer at Woodmuir primary school. These sessions in ... Continue reading "Curriculum cafe - Outdoor learning"

Today was our creativity art hour in class where we were learning about Corita Kent. We were learning about the impact of using different colour combinations and experimenting with colour layering and combining. Our creations are fabulous! j

P2/3 have been learning about weight in our measurement topic. We were estimating then measuring the weight of items in our kitchen. We were all able to estimate what weight these items were (either 1 kilogram or 1/2 a kilogram) then measure them to see how accurate we were.

This morning primary 7 had a meeting in the high school to share our views on ' belonging' in our school. We had a few refreshments, met learners from other cluster schools and had the opportunity to discuss HWB initiatives we would like to see in happening.

Today we worked on a problem solving activity called legs in the barn. We had to use our addition and multiplication strategies working with whole numbers and fractions. Lots of groups drew pictures, created a table or used the guess and check strategy.

Today we continued on with our Persuasive writing. We were thinking about the key features of a speech today and we watched an informative speech from Greta Thunberg. Lots of great work was written today thinking about how we start off a powerful speech and what points we want to address.

Today we were working on our note taking skills ready to write our first persuasive letter tomorrow. We used safer internet day as our starting point as this assembly generated lots of super discussion. We talked about the online benefits as well as the negative points too and linked this lesson to our UNCRC weekly ... Continue reading "P4-7 Literacy hour"