School Blog

We had a very exciting visit today from West Lothian Bike Library. They help people get active and connected through cycling. We had booked in a cycle maintenance workshop as we have quite a few school bikes which are in need of repair.

In Regina's Art club they visited Mexico and made art mirrors. These bright and colourful creations bring good luck to your house.

After reading our third chapter of the watchers, we decided to create action shots of this dramatic part of the book. Rather than drawing them or writing them down, we created three main pictures in our head ready perform to our group.

Artist- Dorothea Tanning To explore form and surreal sculpture We explored a new artist today for creativity hour. Our challenge was to create an everyday object which has human or animal type features. We used newspapers to do this today but lots of materials could be used for this activity. Lots of superb ideas and ... Continue reading "Creativity Friday"

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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.