School Blog

Today we continued on with our digital profiling journey. We talked about our achievements a little more and the skills we have been learning. We are excited to document our learning this term and include pictures of our best work.

This week we have been continuing on with our project on British birds. Yesterday we went on a lovely winter nature walk with our tally mark checklist. We were tracking daily sightings of winter birds in Woodmuir. The children loved this activity and worked together very well. In our lesson today this led on nicely ... Continue reading "Project Based Learning -Birds"

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!

This week we started off our pupil digital profiles. We luckily had Mrs Baty come to help us get started with this and we really enjoyed setting up our pages on the platform. This will be a regular task that we do to keep our profiles updated and self assess our learning each week.

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 looked at the work of Steven Brown who is a contemporary Scottish artist. We created our own McCoos and decided to give them their own unique characteristics with a Scottish name.

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.

Outdoor learning