Our normal work went on as usual – maths, writing, reading etc as well as Living & growing and starting to make posters for our Fairtrade café. And now it started to get warm we had the chance to do our daily mile out on the grass. The main events were Strive with some daring longboard skateboarding and our Youth Musical Initiative show at West Barns. The skateboarding was great fun and it was amazing to hear proper classical musicians and an opera singer performing for such a small audience.

Easter seems a long time ago! We are right back into the swing of things – and with two new pupils – Harry & Jess. It has been good getting to make new friends. We have been writing stories to enter a Jacqueline Wilson competition, working with equivalent fractions, creating a “time” display and started to learn about Fair Trade.  And we started our block of lessons on Living & Growing. The P6’s and P5’s had another Strive outdoor adventure – not even the pouring rain could stop them.  It’s like we have never been away!

Another busy week. We started the week by dissecting lillies to find out about the various parts that make up flowers. We used magnifying glasses to inspect the parts up close. On Tuesday the P5’s and the P6’s went on another STRIVE outdoor adventure, this time scrambling up hilly inclines. While the P5’s were away the rest of us set up online learning portfolios. The weather picked up and we got the chance to read outside and in maths we have started learning about fractions. And on Thursday we did some gardening, preparing the ground for some new hedging and also had the ranger in to teach us about food webs.

It’s been another fun packed week. We had the science workshop where we learned all about the forces acting on something that is flying. And in the Mandela dance workshop we learned about the history of South Africa through different types of African dance. Then, on Thursday, Morven’s mum came in and helped us make our own dreamcatchers. These were all really fun activities to do. On a more serious note, we all completed an assessment to see how much we had learned about money in maths, we tried to solve some maths groupwork problems, started learning about the structure and life-cycles of plants and began to make some information leaflets on different types of birds.

In a packed week, the main highlight for the P5’s & P6’s was the first chance to try the STRIVE adventure school programme. They had the chance to try out activities such as the night-line, observation alley and create a nature colour palette. But that wasn’t all this week – we learned about the Edinburgh Fringe, made posters advertising this year’s event and entered them into the national competition. In writing  we wrote “Ancient Adventures” and might get our stories published in a book. We created some flower pictures out of tissue paper in art, tried some maths problem solving in our co-operative groups and enjoyed a fun packed World Book Day. And we also learned more about the fight against Polio with the “purple pinkie” visit .