School Blog

On Friday, a group of pupils from P5-7 took part in a community planting event with Mirin and Nelly from the Edinburgh and Lothians Green Space Trust. We were invited along to help with the trust's project to help create better habitats in our local area for great crested newts. This species of newt is ... Continue reading "P5-7 Planting Event"

P6 Home Learning Choice Board T2 FINAL - 2024

To prepare us for the World of Work, we have been applying and interviewing for the role of Nursery Buddy. Primary 6 were interviewed by Miss Hall and Miss MacAulay. Well done P6 for speaking so confidently and telling us about your fantastic skills and strengths.

To finish off our Natural Disasters project, P6 enjoyed building and erupting volcanoes. We used our research skills to plan and write news reports about a Volcanic eruption. We know what a volcano is made of and should look like. We designed and decorated our volcanoes. We used our STEM skills to measure and mix ... Continue reading "P6 STEM: Volcanoes"

October signifies the start of Jewish new year celebrations. P6 have explored the tradition of blowing the Shofar horn to signify the start of Rosh Hashanah. They used a variety of art skills to make a shofar horn from paper.

Thank you to our grownups who made it along to visit the P6 showing on Friday. The class loved sharing their Sky Up Academy experience with you. The movie trailers were entirely child led and each child took on an important role in a group to complete the challenge. ICT, literacy, expressive arts and Health ... Continue reading "P6 Sharing the Learning Morning"

P6 have been exploring number patterns this term in numeracy. They have been taking part in a mystery story and trying to use clues to solve a hidden message. So far, we have explored the Vedic Square, Fibonacci Sequences and the Golden Ratio. This week we will be exploring number patterns found in circles.

Please find below the link for our P6 T1 learning overview. P6 termly overview term 1 2024-25

P6 have been learning about Natural Disasters. Today we completed a STEM task in groups to build our own Earthquake readers. We tested our finished seismographs by shaking the boxes to see how the graph changed.

Last Thursday 29th August, P6 attended a school trip to Sky Up Studios in Livingston. We were lucky enough to explore the Sky offices and see lots of people at work. We learned about the different roles and jobs they offer at Sky. We were shown behind the scenes clips of the new Wicked film, ... Continue reading "P6 Trip to Sky Up Studios"

Welcome back to our Primary 6 pupils. We have had a busy two weeks settling into our new classroom. Take a look at our new classroom charter that we have created together. We will demonstrate our school values of being nurturing, ambitious and respectful. We will be ready to learn, show respect and stay safe ... Continue reading "Welcome to Primary 6 - Class Charter"