School Blog

Our final day was filled with a handful of activities including Manor Olympics, Bivi and Initiative. In Manor Olympics, the children played a variety of different games including relay races where they had mini challenges to complete, wellie throws and even some teamwork games. In our final sessions, Bivi and Initiative, the children used their ... Continue reading "Lockerbie Camp Day 3"

The children enjoyed a fun-filled, action packed day yesterday where they had a chance to participate in Bivi (den-building), obstacle course, initiative (problem solving tasks), axe throwing, archery, abseiling and finishing up with a camp-fire where we sang songs and toasted marshmallows. The children enjoyed all the activities and were all extremely tired by the ... Continue reading "Lockerbie Camp Day 2"

We arrived safely at Lockerbie yesterday afternoon around 2pm and the children all managed to get settled in quickly before getting organised into our groups for our first activity. Our first activities were climbing and axe throwing which the children all really enjoyed. In axe throwing, the children had an opportunity to throw darts and ... Continue reading "Lockerbie Camp Day 1"

Today our creativity hour was designing word art! We were working online with the National Galleries of Scotland and two fabulous industry experts-Lorna and Liz. They talked about exploring different artwork and the use of communication and words. We then created our own word art to display around the school and even one on a ... Continue reading "Art Friday"

Primary 5-7 had an adventurous day yesterday canoeing in the Union canal with Ian, from Excite leisure. Lots of new canoeing skills were practised and we even had time for a few water games too!

At the weekend, Aila won 6 rosettes in her pony competitions with Doodles. We are all very proud of Aila and she feels great about this achievement.

A busy week in P1-P7. I hope you all had a wonderful Easter break and are ready for the busy term ahead. This week we have been creating Funky Bunnies using line and pattern, developing our music skills with Limelight music and learning outdoors in the sunshine!

It was lovely coming together with the whole school for the Easter service. The P5-P7 children re-told the Easter story and the P1-P3 children sang lots of cheerful songs. Well done to all the speakers and singers, a fabulous job! Thank you also to minister Mr Craig, who came along to say a few words ... Continue reading "Easter service"

We are participating in the local Hobby Craft, Easter Bonnet competition. Some fabulous designs have been created and we can't wait to hand them in to the shop for judging.

This morning P5-P7 were working in random groups playing a game of reasoned rounding. Lots of collaboration and Math Talk Moves strategies within each group.

This week P5-7 had the chance to train up in leading their own lunch time club. During session 1 we explored the skills we would need to be able to organise a games club and we talked about the different sports we might like to play. Next week it is an outside active school's session. ... Continue reading "Health and Well-being"