19 Dec

Carol service 2024

Term came to a close this afternoon with the whole school going to church for our carol service. Year 6 lead the service, focussing on gifts - especially God’s gift of Jesus to the world at Christmas. They were also helped by a staff band and a signing choir.

19 Dec

Year 3s getting ready for Christmas!

Forget Santa’s eleven, in Year 3 we have been busily preparing for Christmas and the holidays! We have been making packaging in DT, cutting out gingerbread biscuits, creating 3-D Christmas shapes from nets, making cards and calendars. We’ve also fitted in a music concert, an online writing…

18 Dec

Year 6 community carol singing

This week Year 6 have visited Chirnside House and Ashton Manor care homes to entertain the residents with their carol singing. They also enjoyed chatting to the residents afterwards.

18 Dec

Year 6 carol singing

This week Year 6 have visited Chirnside House and Ashton Manor care homes to entertain the residents with their carol singing. They also enjoyed chatting to the residents afterwards.

13 Dec

Christmas printing

Year 6 have finally completed their Christmas printing project, with their third layer of colour. The results look spectacular and will be used as our Christmas cards to our parents.

13 Dec

3D shape sorting

Today we have been sorting our 3D shapes. 
 

12 Dec

Rock Steady Concert

What a fantastic concert today. Our rock stars performed brilliantly and the audience of children and parents were awestruck by the confidence of the children who have been receiving Rock Steady lessons. Well done everyone!

11 Dec

Last tennis session with Coach Reagan

What a day of sports we have had! This afternoon was our last tennis session with Coach Reagan and we practised rallies! It was quite tricky to control the ball but we managed some mini-rallies and definitely improved by the end of the lesson. We had made a card for Reagan and he was really…

11 Dec

Christmas Dodgeball with Year 3

Today Coach Scott came into school and we had a fantastic session playing Christmas dodgeball.  We played Christmas Tree Freeze, Catch the Bauble and finally Rudolph Rescue. We all loved it!

10 Dec

An audience with Jacqueline Wilson

Today, along with children from some other local schools, Year 6 went to Ripley to meet the famous children’s author Jacqueline Wilson. We learnt how she began writing in primary school and had her first story published in a magazine at the age of 17. Her first book was published when she was 26…

6 Dec

Christmas Market - Enterprise success

Today we held our Christmas Market after school - the culmination of our Enterprise Week. Each group packaged and priced their various products before displaying them for sale in the hall. As a class we did really well and managed to more than double the money we had been loaned by SCOT4ALL! We…

6 Dec

Investigating packaging (Year 3 2024)

Today our classroom was very busy (and a little bit messy!) as we investigating packaging by carefully pulling apart cardboard packages we brought from home! We were amazed that they were made from just ONE piece of card. We looked at the tabs that were needed so that the packaging could be glued…