School Blog

We are working in partnership with University of Glasgow to implement MathsBURST in our classroom. Today we were learning to define reflective symmetry, complete reflections of given 2D shapes and reflect 2D shapes over horizontal axes. We all enjoyed using the mirrors to visualise, predict and check. We are also going to use this strategy ... Continue reading "Line of Reflective Symmetry"

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.

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.

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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"

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"

Today we watched the short animation of Yoyo & The Broken Butter Lamps before watching the concert live from the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Last year we even got to go and watch them in Paisley Town Hall. The story is told by narrators who also play music alongside the story to enhance the characters and ... Continue reading "RSNO Live Concert"

This afternoon we had our second bikeability session focussing on using our brakes properly and following a route in the playground with lots of control. In level one we are learning to maintain our cycles, glide, pedal with control and being aware of our surroundings.

Yesterday we worked collaboratively on two thinking tasks.We worked on a curricular and non-curricular maths tasks following our building, thinking classroom rules. Everyone was engaged and involved in super maths discussions.