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Thank you very much to everyone who has supported our fundraising over the past two days. We raised a fantastic total of £552.53. P7, enjoy your weekend. You have definitely earned it, after doing activities throughout the school today.

Thank you to everyone who came to our ceilidh last night. We did lots of dancing, which was tiring, but good fun. Today, we did Scottish activities in each class and had a ceilidh in the hall in the afternoon. The sports leaders organised curling and kinball in the hall this morning.

Yesterday, Corrina Campbell visited the school to tell us more about her life as an author and illustrator. It was interesting to hear where she got her ideas for her books from. Our favourite part was when she taught us how to draw a bear and a person.

This week, we started Christmas early!! We had to make our own card designs for our Christmas cards. The pictures below show all our hard work. We took our time and the finished pictures look great. They will be coming home to order next week.

Yesterday, we had our first fundraising bake sale.  There was a big selection of tasty cakes and goodies. It sold out very quickly. Thank you to everyone who helped us. We raised the fantastic amount of £281.20.

Yesterday we were finding out about climate and weather in Japan and comparing it to Scotland. We wrote down our facts on a table. An interesting fact – The rainy season is during the summer.

What a busy week we have had. On Wednesday, some of us went to Dalneigh Primary School for a Mathletics competition.  First, we did a 5 minute times tables worksheet, then we did head to head questions. Finally, we played the bee hive game. It was a fun morning. From Tuesday to Thursday, there wasContinue reading “Maths Week Scotland”

Matthew is working with us this week and next to show us how to work with groups. This afternoon, we played team games and thought about how they could be changed for younger and older pupils.

Today at assembly Mrs Snedden announced the different leadership roles. We are going to be leading sports, arts,  STEM and RRS. Our house and vice captains were also announced. Well done to everyone.