🍁 Autumn Addition in P5! 🍂
P5 enjoyed the crisp autumn air while practising four-digit addition with one exchange! Using colourful leaves, twigs and berries, we created and solved our own calculations.
🌟 Meta-Skill – Creativity: Finding imaginative ways to represent numbers.
🌍 SDG 12 – Responsible Consumption: Making clever use of natural materials.
UNCRC Article 29: Developing our talents and abilities through creative learning!
P3 started the week by creating Swanston Farm masterpiece! We followed an online tutorial and used the memories from our trip to add some special details. They look amazing 🤩 #Article28- The right to education.
We also visited the ChurchHill Theatre to watch “The Buttonz show” – which was great fun! The children loved the catchy songs, magic tricks and silly jokes! #Article 29 – The right to develops talents and abilities.
P3 also enjoyed switching up their usual book review Thursday activity to do their first show review! They even tried to draw the main character “Mr Buttonz” 🤡
Finally, P3 have been working hard all week to complete a different brain break each day to boost their mental and physical wellbeing #Article24 – The right to be healthy. Most learners found they felt more awake and ready to learn, their mood improved and they had fun!
What a busy week in Primary 2! It was fantastic to share all our progress and achievements with parents over the past two weeks. Thank you all those who attended! #RightToEducation #SDG4
We visited the Churchill Theatre on Wednesday for an interactive performance ‘Buttons’. We developed our rhythm & rhyming skills and were inspired for next writing block; Creative Writing will be our October to December focus. #RightToRestPlay&Culture.
We visited the local play park on Thursday to celebrate all our hard work!
Some of our class presented at assembly about the importance of healthy eating and hydration! #RightToBeHealthy #SDG3 #SDG6
This week P6 headed to Astley Ainslie Park with the Green Team. We were focusing on sensory activities to help us with descriptions for our final narrative piece of writing, which we completed yesterday.
Well done P6 for another successful trip🤩
Article 31 & 29
SDG 4
As we reached our final week before the October break, we’ve been busy exploring, creating and developing our skills!
🍁 Exploring texture: We headed outdoors to take inspiration from the beautiful autumn leaves, using a mixture of media to create different textures in our artwork.
💡 Developing our metaskills: We explored our creativity by constructing our own LEGO creations, taking inspiration from our castles topic. We used our imaginations to bring our ideas to life and create some fantastic designs!
🌎 Celebrating Climate Week: We thought about the choices we can make to help protect our planet. We put our creativity to good use by designing posters that will be displayed around our school, reminding our whole school community how small, positive choices can make a big difference to our world.
Well done, P4, for another fantastic week of learning, creativity and teamwork! We hope everyone enjoys a well-deserved October break! 🍂✨
P7 enjoyed a fascinating and thought-provoking trip to the National War Museum, Edinburgh. During the visit, pupils took part in a guided tour of the museum galleries, exploring artefacts from the Second World War and learning about their historical significance.
Pupils also participated in a hands-on enquiry session in the Wartime Life Room, where they investigated the experiences of four individuals who lived through the war, including an evacuee and a prisoner of war. Through examining evidence and discussing different perspectives, pupils developed their understanding of how conflict can affect people’s lives and communities.
The visit provided an engaging opportunity to bring classroom learning to life, developing pupils’ historical enquiry skills, critical thinking and communication. Pupils also enjoyed exploring Edinburgh Castle and learning more about Scotland’s rich heritage.
SDGs
Goal 4 (Quality Education)
Goal 5 (Gender Equality)
Goal 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities)
Goal 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions)
UNCRCs
Article 12 (Respect for the Views of the Child)
Article 13 (Freedom of Expression)
Article 17 (Access to Information)
Article 29 (Goals of Education)
Article 38 (Protection from War and Armed Conflict)
The experience encouraged pupils to think critically about the past, reflect on the impact of war on individuals and societies, and understand the importance of peace and justice in today’s world.
P5 had a wonderful morning working on their class topic by exploring local woodlands and creating mythological creatures with natural resources. #uncrc
We have had another super week. We were visited by Margon from The Green Team who took us out for Outdoor Learning. We collected different sizes/colours of leaves, created patterns and shapes with more Autumnal treasures and loved playing with the parachute! 🪂 #GlobalGoal3 $Article24
We have also enjoyed revising the sounds learned so far, writing a story and practicing writing our numbers!
Well done Primary 1 for another fantastic week ⭐
Another busy week in P1!
As part of Climate Week P1 completed a sensory walk. We gathered some Autumnal treasures to use in our artwork! We are amazed by the creativity in our class! #Article31 #GlobalGoal13
We have also been working hard during carpet time and group time! #Article28
We are resharing some of our Climate Week/Month work. #GlobalGoal13
Well done P1! ⭐
As part of our Scotland’s Climate Week focus, P7 participated in an outdoor learning session and started working on an Active Travel Campaign as part of Keep Scotland Beautiful’s Climate Week activities. This helped pupils think about the barriers to choosing active travel and encouraged them to consider more sustainable ways of getting around. We learned that transport is one of the biggest sources of greenhouse gas emissions, making active travel an important way to help reduce our environmental impact.
SDGs – Goal 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities), Goal 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production), Goal 13 (Climate Action)
UNCRCs – Article 13 (Freedom of Expression), Article 24 (Health, Water, Food and Environment), Article 29 (Aims of Education)
On Monday, pupils enjoyed an afternoon doing outdoor leaning in the parkland grounds of Astley Ainslie Hospital. Linking with our World War II Social Studies topic, pupils walked through the woods imagining how people might have found food, shelter materials and developed survival skills during challenging times. Working in small groups, they were given the challenge of creating an overnight shelter using ropes, tarpaulins and natural materials found on the ground. P7 also had time to demonstrate their creativity by designing and building their own swings using ropes and branches.
SDGs – Goal 3 (Good Health and Well-being), Goal 15 (Life on Land)
UNCRCs – Article 29 (Aims of Education)
