P4/5 are settling in well and have been working hard. In Numeracy we have been enjoying using lots of concrete materials and have been reading, writing and verbalising numbers.

We have started our book study on Street Child, involving a Victorian boy called Jim. We have been using the Active Literacy strategies to analyse the text and show our understanding. Our topic is also on the Victorians and this has led to learning in other curricular areas such as researching about Queen Victoria during ICT and even writing our own fact files on her.

We are looking forward to seeing what else Term 1 has in store!

Our floral art display

Our summer holiday writing display

Primary 6/7 have settled back into school well and are all working really hard. We have started reading our class novel ‘Divided City’ and the children are enjoying the story so far. We have learned lots about Glasgow and the prejudice and sectarianism that can stem from religion and football. We are looking forward to reading on further and finding out what happens.

Some of our primary 6 children have been going swimming on Mondays and have been enjoying their lessons so far! The rest of the class have been using the Emotion Works cogs to think about their feelings towards a new year at school (and for the P7 pupils their last year at primary). Today the class worked with P1 to help them log onto the computer and create pictures on colour magic, they were great teachers!

Primary 5/6 have been learning a bit about Natural disasters. We made a mind map of all the different types of natural disasters we know and are going to use this for a research project!

We also created a grid that tells us what we already know and what we want to find out. Miss Reid was so surprised at how much Primary 5/6 already knew about natural disasters!