School Blog

To raise awareness of Children's mental health week we watched a short assembly from Place To Be. We then read a few short stories to explore the theme if belonging.

Today in our random groups of three, working on vertical non-permanent surfaces, we were solving our rich tasks. Lots of collaboration and pupil discourse. We also evaluated how well we worked together in terms of listening, sharing ideas, turn-taking, working together and being kind.

Today we had our first Rights Respecting Champion meeting of the year. We talked about new ways of sharing the rights with others in our school, competitions we will organise in the school and making sure we have all our rights on every display. This was a very productive meeting time where all children have ... Continue reading "Rights Respecting Champions"

Today we all worked together to solve our maths problem today. We were focussing on the mathematical language and the word ' sum'. We also talked about Math Talk Moves and using Reasoning in our groups.

On Tuesday we had our regular session with Mr Reid. We were very excited to make our own fires and learn all about fire safety. Everyone was engaged in their learning, risk assessing and was connecting with nature. We had a great afternoon and even roasted a few marshmallows!

Yesterday we had the pleasure of hosting our Burns supper. We were delighted to welcome in our parents/carers and other members of our families.The hall was filled with enthusiasm as everyone read their slide clearly and performed their Burns poem. The children sang a range of Scot's songs, showing respect for Scotland's rich literacy heritage. ... Continue reading "Burns Supper"

Today we created our own Burns Supper menu and started to calculate how much this would cost. We then took a walk over to the village shop to buy a few desserts for our school Burns Supper.

This term we have been exploring a little more about how we learn in our school and how the children know they are learning and making progress. The children feel engaged and curious to learn through our project based learning on birds where they get to self- direct their journey on this topic. Our learners ... Continue reading "Our learning wall"

A few highlights from our wonderful upper school children leading benchball.