It has been a lovely sunny week. We have taken at vantage of this weather this week and got outside as much as possible. On Monday we played with the parachute outside and later in the week enjoyed the sunshine and out story ‘James and the Giant Peach’. 

We continued our work around Abbotsford and looked at ‘Toadstones’. Toad stone where given to pregnant women to ward off evil spirits especially fairies. Ask your children about them, they should be able to tell you some of this information. We made our own toadstones out of clay which was great fun. They look really good.

We also had another Sphero Indis session this week working on tricky coding and debugging but we have been working so well to problem solve and are having lots of fun. 

We finished off our St Patrick’s Day clovers too. In other learning we wrote some acrostic poems about foods, learned the u-e sound and worked on counting up amounts of money. 

We had a fantastic trip out to Abbotsford House on Thursday. The children all displayed excellent manners, attitude and followed the school rules and expectations brilliantly. We had a fantastic time and learned a lot about the house and Sir Walter Scott. We even learned how to measure a tree to see how old it might be. We will be looking more at Abbotsford in the next couple weeks. Below are loads of picture from the day. We were all exhausted when we came back to school so had a nice afternoon learning about St Patrick’s day. 

This week we had a special visitor on Thursday. Mr Graham from the inspire learning team brought in a special robot car fo pr us to learn more about coding.  We had great fun during our first session learning about what the different mats do. 

This week completed our Who am I? Poems. The children did a super job and these are now being displayed within the classroom. 

​Next week wb 21st March is the return of the Big Wheel and Walk. We encourage children to take part by scooting, walking or cycling to school. Classes will record the number of participants daily and the school will be entered into daily prize draws. Each day there will be a special golden padlock placed on a one bike or scooter at the MUGA area for P1-3/4 and also one at the bike rack by the main gates for P4-7 The daily winners will receive a prize and a certificate.

On Thursday we celebrated World Books Day! It was lovely to see all the children’s outfits, they all looked great. 

We started the day by listening to the Wonky Donkey story read by Gregor and Lyndsey from Radio Borders Breakfast show. After break we were joined by P5/6 to do some reading. The children selected a book from the library and together the children spent time reading, enjoying and talking about the stories. You can see from the pictures how much the children enjoyed this. 

After lunch we read Handas Surprise. In this story a little girl fills a basket with different fruits to take to her friend. This linked to our work around healthy eating. We discussed the different fruits in the story along with some other ones the children were less familiar with. Miss Notman had brought in a range of fruits for everyone to see. We then did some different activities around the book and prepared the fruit to taste. Some of the fruits  we prepared were lemon, lime, grapefruit, grapes, pomegranate, mango, pineapple, apples and oranges. The children took great care preparing the fruit and being really safe while using knives. Together we tasted the grapefruit, lime and lemon. We talked about the different tastes; sweet, sour and bitter. The children’s faces showed their reactions brilliantly! After preparing the fruit we sat down to watch Gangsta Granny and made our own fruits salads to enjoy while we watched. 

What a great World Book Day! 

Earlier in the week some of the boys built a tower and wanted their photo taken with it. They then went on to take some photos of their own and enjoyed posing and filling the iPad camera roll!