What a wonderful start to the week this week including tennis as part of Health and Well-being.
We then got together with P1A for a finger disco in the hall. We moved through different movements big and small and responded to music such as The Harry Potter theme music. It was so good Mrs Macaulay didn’t get many photos.
We are still learning to get changed for PE so we’ll keep working on it for next weeks sessions.
On Monday mornings we will be having fun mini tennis sessions for the next few weeks. Please bring in your gym clothes and comfortable footwear – sorry for the short notice. I can’t wait to see all your skills. 🙂
A huge congratulations to Lola who won the Brave Child of the Year award at the Highland Heroes awards on Thursday. All of Primary 1 were so proud of Lola and delighted to see her award. They had lots of questions about what it was like and Lola enjoyed sharing all about it. Well done Lola!
Friday brought snow and we were excited! Here is a wee snapshot of us playing in it before it disappeared. Our snowman had a beetroot for a nose from our raised bed.
Inside we enjoyed painting, drawing and construction. A great end to a super week.
Thank you to everyone who made it to the P1 Parent Workshops. We hope they were useful and if you have any questions or feedback please let us know.
We’ve added the powerpoints to the Learning at Home section of this blog for anyone who couldn’t make it or anyone who wants to have a peek over them again.
Miss Hutcheson and some of her class very kindly came to share how to be safe around fires for bonfire night this week. We enjoyed hearing the crackle of the wood and the heat it was giving off. We talked about standing back and David did a wonderful job of putting the fire out using lots of water.
Some children wanted to continue with soup making this week and realised we had left over leeks and potatoes from the previous week. So off we went to get the chopping boards, knives and cooker to start our soup.
Here are some of the wonderful inventions we have been introduced to this week. One combines a tortoise backpack that can then change into a protective hat. We have a super rocket launcher and a wonderful musical cube that jingles.
On Thursday we read the story Pumpkin Soup as we carved pumpkins. This led to one pupil asking to make pumpkin soup and searched for recipes. On Friday a small group of pupils went to the shop to buy the items and then we got cooking as well as harvesting our leeks we’ve grown in our raised bed and chives that were also grown in the courtyard.
The pupils the chopped up all the items using real tools such as knives and peelers.
We cooked it all in a pan on our cooker and then had a class tasting. Almost all the pupils wanted two helpings.
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