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"

The next part of our PBL learning was to find out about the different climates in our chosen countries. P1 had a science workshop on the four seasons, p3/4 were learning about world climates and the Equator. Primary 5-7 were finding out about different climates around the world using I pads, and the vocabulary we ... Continue reading "Project based learning"

Today we started off creating our Trusted adult display. Everyone participated in super discussion about who our trusted adults could be and why we need to have these responsible adults at home and in school. In creativity hour today we had a really special visit from Jen at Voice Rocks. We played fun singing games ... Continue reading "Fun Friday- Let's get creative!"

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"