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We continued to experiment with different materials to look at their properties. We predicted if they were transparent or not. Then we tested to see if they were correct or not.

Year 6 have welcomed the return of Enterprise Week, after a two year break due to Covid. Working in teams of five, each member is assigned a special role such as project manager, accountant and advertiser. Scot4All has loaned each team some money which they must “invest” during the week to make…

Thank you to the SCOT4ALL team who helped decorate the Christmas tree with the lovely decorations the children made on Friday last week. Also, a big thanks to the Long, Tall Plumber, who made sure our very big tree stood up straight and safely.

Sarah led the NISCU puppet Worship on Monday afternoon. They told us about Emmanuel - God with us and sang some great songs. Thank you NISCU.

Thank you to all the lovely mums who came into class today to help us make these decorations for the big tree in the hall.  We had great fun!

During this week, we have started investigating shelters in DT. We began by researching the different types of air raid shelters that were designed and used in WW2. Anderson and Morrison shelters were two of the most common types. We then went on to investigate how to make strong structures and…

This week, we have been learning about how the water cycle works and we are going to be writing an explanation text to describe the process. We have used lots of new vocabulary such as evaporation, condensation and precipitation. We have drawn the water cycle on a food bag and put water in the…

This morning we made stained glass baubles to decorate our school Christmas tree. Thank you to all our parents for giving up their time to help us. Our baubles look beautiful.

We enjoyed making our Christmas decorations with Scot4All.

We are using all of our new skills including holding scissors in one hands to make a snowflake. This week in Nursery we have been talking about Winter. We already know that it gets cold in Winter and we need our hats and scarves. 

We have been working hard on our printing over the last two weeks. Last week, we added a second colour to our original prints, after adding more detail to our initial outline shapes.

Today we removed our main motif from our tile and worked on adding detail to our backgrounds. Finally we chose a…

We have been learning all about instructions in literacy recently.  Today we thought carefully about how to make jam on toast.  First we had to use very specific language to tell Mrs Cross what to do.  We then had a go at making jam on toast ourselves before finally writing up what we had learnt.…