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We have made a great start in our new topic of World War 1, learning what sparked the beginning of the first world war. Ask us what happened in Sarajevo to ignite the chain of events that led to war in early August 1914? We will use our knowledge from this week to create a ... Continue reading What a great week in primary 7! →

We have loved being in our PJs today, we have definitely all been warm. Earlier this week we took part in an authors live event with Axel Scheffler and Julia Donaldson. We listened to 2 stories and then watched Axel Scheffler do some illustrations, we then had a go ourselves and were very proud of ... Continue reading World Book Day in P2 →

Primary 4 and 5 took on the challenge of the Daily Mile for the World Daily Mile Day. Everyone participated well, we have some great runners at St Mary's We did 12 laps of the playground, no cutting corners some of us are very keen to do it more regularly.

WOW what a great day Primary 4 have had at the Zoo! It was very hot and we were careful to keep hydrated and keep safe in the sun. We enjoyed a session about endangered animals in the zoo education centre followed by time to explore the animals in the zoo. We enjoyed reading the ... Continue reading Zoo - Primary 4 →

WHAT A DAY! Primary 1 had a brilliant day at Edinburgh Zoo yesterday. We enjoyed a visit to the Education Centre for a whole school quiz about endangered animals, then visited the penguins before sitting under a big shaded tree for some lunch. After lunch we played at the play park before setting off to ... Continue reading Zoo fun in Primary 1! →

Primary 2 were a mixture of excited and terrified this morning for the St Mary's annual nativity. I think we can all agree that they were fabulous and should be very proud of themselves. We hope you enjoyed it. Earlier in the week, we also enjoyed our Christmas dinner. Lilly eating a Brussel sprout was ... Continue reading A baby is born... P2 15.12.23 →

We are looking forward to our half term break after having another busy week of learning. This week we have been using our concrete materials and blending our maths and engineering skills to revise our knowledge on place value by building the best castle using our dean's materials. We then counted our materials to reach ... Continue reading An update from Primary 7 →

We have really enjoyed learning about famous artists this year. As our IDL topic is a Scottish focus we wanted to learn about a famous Scottish artist. We learned about Gillian Kyle who is a textile designer. She is greatly inspired by all things Scottish. We learned that she was born in Renfrewshire and studied ... Continue reading Art and Design in P3 →

This week we had the opportunity to use our problem solving and coding skills with the Bee-Bots. We gave our Bee-Bot a sequence of instructions to navigate around the classroom. We had to be confident with left and right and work out directions for the Bee-Bot to follow. Once we were confident with the basic ... Continue reading Coding in Primary 3 →

What a fantastic first week back in Primary 1 with lots of learning. We have started a new topic in class, Scotland , as part of our topic we have started reading Hamish McHaggis stories to help us learn Scottish words and places in Scotland. We all worked together to make the characters of ... Continue reading First week of 2024 in Primary 1S →