Author: Ms Mitchell

The highlight of our week was Thursday, when we went on a trip to Dynamic Earth. The bus was late so we missed our workshop, but it was still an amazing trip because we got to do the tour instead. We went to the showdome and watched a show called ‘Super Volcanoes’.

In ukulele we played the song ‘500 Miles’. We sounded good but it was sad because that was our last week of ukulele.

To finish our topic on the Scottish Wars of Independence we created a timeline of all the events that happened during the wars.

It is Rabbie Burns Day on Friday, so we have been learning about lots to do with Scottish culture. We learnt about the art of Steven Brown and tried to make some pictures of our own, it was fun. We also learnt some Scots language, and sang the song ‘Call It Alba’ in assembly. On Friday we had a Burns supper with homemade shortbread in the dining hall – some people got to try haggis for the first time and we all enjoyed it! Sam then played Auld Lang Syne to us – well done Sam!

By Louise, Maria and Laia

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To celebrate Burn’s day tomorrow Mrs Gargaro taught us some Highland Hustle dances. We had a brilliant time and worked so hard – there were lots of red faces by the end. A HUGE thank you to Mrs Gargaro for coming into the school to do this with us. Check out our moves in the videos!

Welcome to our first blog of 2019!

We have been learning about Scottish myths and legends, like the Loch Ness monster, kelpies and the blue men of Minch. After learning about them we made up our own mythical creature.

In maths we were revising our times tables by playing games like ‘Around the World’ and testing each other on our times tables.

We wrote a fact file on Robert the Bruce, where we wrote about his life; when he was born, what happened to him and the battles he was in. We then made a Book Creator e-book about the Battle of Bannockburn in partners, and showed them to the rest of the class on the Apple TV.

We all listened to the story of Jesus healing a blind man. We sequenced the story by matching pictures to sentences and gluing them into our RE jotters.

At ukulele we revised all the chords then learnt to play a song called ‘500 Miles’. It was so fun!

By Lauren and Cameron

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This week we have been doing lots of Christmas things. Our favourite thing that we did was creating a winter scene with oil pastels and paints. It was really fun. We also made placements that we can use for our Christmas party on Tuesday, and we had a nice Christmas lunch.

On Wednesday we watched the P1 Nativity – it was really good. After that we talked about the Nativity story, then got into partners and made a Book Creator e-book to tell the story.

We played football in PE and everybody liked it. It was fun. Every week there are new teams and new people to play with. One week though the Brighton house were having their house treat so the teams were smaller, but this week we had full teams.

We also learnt a Highland Hustle dance for our Christmas party. It was really tiring but enjoyable. We did it to the song ‘Timber’.

By Sophie, Noel and Filip

 

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This week we have enjoyed doing yoga and meditation to stretch and relax our bodies.

We learnt about the Battle of Stirling Bridge; Scotland and England had a battle right over Stirling Bridge. Scotland should have lost because they were outnumbered and weren’t as trained, with no experience, but they won because of their clever tactics. We enjoyed making wanted posters for William Wallace because he was a wanted man after the battle!

We also wrote a newspaper report about King Alexander III’s death. We drew pictures and wrote headlines and the key information.

We do ukelele every Tuesday. We were switching chords and learning tons of new things!

And now that it is December we start learning about Advent. We have started lighting candles on our advent wreath during prayers.

By Charlotte and Lewis