Weekly School Round-up 28 (22.03.2024)

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P6 have been investigating the digestive system

P4 enjoyed their ukulele session this week.

P2/3 have been enjoying their new role-play area, mini classroom. They have been acting in role of teacher and created a mini class story map

P1/2 have been learning to share equally between 2, 3 and 4.

Primary 1 have been learning to code and developing their use of directional language using the beebots. The same Beebots were quickly changed into the big bad wolf and primary 1 tested their house of sticks. We had play in the vet surgery, and the cafe (outside).

Weekly School Round-up 27 (15.03.2024)

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Primary 7 enjoyed the Get Ahead Day at Drummond Community High School this week and learnt about lots of different careers!

The nursery children this week have been experimenting with mixing colours, we used paint and enjoyed using ours hands to mix with, we’ve been building up our prediction skills. The nursery have also been noticing signs of spring while out walks around our environment. As a responsive interest in apples we made apple crumble and started planting our vegetable seeds indoors.

Primary 1/2 enjoyed a visit from a music specialist this week. They learned about rhythm and tempo. Here they are singing and will make the cloth go pop! on the same beat.

This week in primary 2/3 we continued learning about the range of emotions we experience in a day and decided independently how we wanted to display that, through creating characters or colourful fidget toys etc. We learned about prepositions in writing and began writing our character story maps. In RSHP p2s learned what it meant to be a good friend – we had to find our partner with our matching object and find something in common with them. p3s learned about how all of our families look different. In play, we had fun exploring coding through B-Bots on a 100 square.

Primary 3 have been learning to add (innovate) new ideas into their talk for writing topic on The Tear Thief by Carol Anne Duffy. They have used Drama to act out their ideas in pairs one partner is the tear thief and one is the crying child. They worked in pairs to create a simple 4 box story board with their ideas after the Drama performance. They are now excited to write like Carol Anne duffy to create our own version of her book!

Primary 1 have continued exploring ‘The Three Little Pigs’ and have been working and learning about different materials, designing their own houses (with the help of their buddies), developing fine motor skills in building ‘houses’ of cards, and singing songs with the youth music initiative.

Weekly School Round-up 26 (08.03.2024)

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Primary 4 worked in groups and used a material of their choice to construct the towns that they had previously designed. The children had some very creative ideas of how to meet the needs of the groups living in their towns!

Primary 6 enjoyed a hands on investigation into the four main components of blood before we got down to writing some fantastic reports on the subject. We also had a fabulous time at Edinburgh University taking part in the DanceCraft project

This week Primary 1 celebrated World Book Day by hearing about some excellent books. We had some special visitors helping us on our trip and answering questions about their jobs. We continued to explore ‘The Three Little Pigs’ and spent time outside.

Primary 5 took part in a researched team debate on whether mobile phones should be allowed in school. We heard some great arguments and questions as we built on our talking and listening skills.

Primary 5 were visited by Elaine from Red Start, who helped us play some games about financial education and budgeting.

This week in Primary 1/2 we have been practising our spelling, building then writing words and sentences.

World Book Day at Abbeyhill

Weekly School Round-up 25 (01.03.2024)

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Primary 3 are currently learning about their new whole school topic on ‘Flotsam’ by David Wiesner as part of World Book Day. We have loved exploring these Flotsam trays to infer who might have lost these items? They wrote a note about their findings.
Followed with digging and discovering hidden Flotsam treasures which helped them design jewellery like the mermaid bracelet.

In primary 2/3 we continued learning about money, using different coin variations to make certain amounts – lots of different number strategies being used. In the Rainforest vets we’ve had some sick animals nursed back to health, and even some births! Ive held a couple of newborn baby animals delivered by our vet surgeons

In primary 1/2 we have been hard at work preparing our planter for planting. We worked as a team to clear the area of leaves then turn the soil ready for seeding.

Primary 2’s in P1/2 have been practicing their vowel digraphs and thinking of sentences to demonstrate their understanding.

Primary 6 enjoyed a hands on investigation into the four main components of blood before we got down to writing some fantastic reports on the subject. We also had a fabulous time at Edinburgh University taking part in the DanceCraft project

Primary 4 were using games to improve our accuracy and speed of recall of times table facts.

Primary 1 were working on teamwork in PE with a focus on communication & focus. They have also been reading ‘The Three Little Pigs’ and learning how to retell the story with actions.

Weekly School Round-up 24 (23.02.2024)

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Primary 2/3 this week: we began learning about money, we looked at the book Flotsam as part of our whole school IDL project which everyone was thoroughly engaged with, then we looked at our new class topic the Rainforest, and started looking at where on the world map we would find a rainforest after locating the equator and tropics.

Primary 1 this week: we began exploring the story of The Three Little Pigs, we began examining (some closer than others) the book Flotsam, we continued to develop our understanding of number bonds to 5 & 10. We spend time in the playground preparing our class planter and discussed senses with the help of some worms.