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WE have enjoyed our wet week! You have booted-up and had time outside on the Trail Trail and Kick Pitch where we played together. We have also enjoyed jigsaw challenges this week and have built towers with our giant Lego! We have also worked really hard on our problem solving skills...we have matched our 1-10 ... Continue reading TheLifeOfTay! →

Some recent photos of P4/3 during Outdoor Learning. Miss Nelson leads this each week and as the photos show, the children love it! Charlotte - I liked making my name with twigs and mud and leaves. Jude - I liked going to the park and playing with my friends. Joseph - I like exploring in ... Continue reading P4/3 Outdoor Learning →

In Primary one this week we have been learning all about firework safety. We used bonfire night to inspire our writing for the week, we talked lots about what fireworks look, sound and smell like. After our discussions we drew pictures of fireworks and wrote a sentence. We also used fireworks to inspire ... Continue reading Primary 1 →

HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM ALL IN P4/3! Wow! Excellent effort for all the costumes. The children have had a great morning!

An action packed week has been enjoyed in Tay class. We have enjoyed playing catch on the Kick Pitch and have built towers in the Outdoor Classroom where we worked well together. In class we have created squirrel tails in our Autumn Art class and matching the heads and tails of safari animals in our ... Continue reading TheLifeOfTay! →

We've had a fantastic few weeks full of hands-on learning, sensory exploration, and Halloween celebrations! ✨ Sensory Play and Literacy Our learners have been enjoying foam play while exploring the sounds 'm' and 'a'. The soft, bubbly texture made it fun to form letters, trace shapes, and listen for the sounds in words. Sensory play ... Continue reading Rannoch Round Up →

Lovely to see everyone back after the October holiday. We've had a fun week... we celebrated 'M's' Birthday with some treats and this delicious cake that was sent in from 'M's' parents! Thank you to them again. We also had some Halloween fun. Many of us enjoyed Halloween PE and the Halloween party followed by ... Continue reading Lomond Class →

It has been a busy first week back in P5. We have attended our first committee of the school year where we have the opportunity to share our views and opinions about our experiences at St Mary's. We completed a writing assessment on information reports. Look at that concentration! We attended our first upper school ... Continue reading Happy Halloween from P5 →

Primary 1 kicked of the week with potion making, mixing, smelling and feeling different sents and textures to make our own spooky potions. In art, inspired by the book "Spider" we learned lots of spider facts and made spider ️ pictures with stamps we made. On Wednesday we participated in our first pupil voice committee ... Continue reading A Spooktacular Week in Primary 1 →

Welcome back to the Tales of Tay! We have enjoyed meeting up again after our well-earned break. We had such a busy start to our first year at St Mary's and have continued in the same vein this week! We have wellied-up and enjoyed Trim Trail increasingly muddy fun! Songs and personalised learning have focused ... Continue reading #TheLifeofTay! →

In Lomond Class we made chocolate chip cookies this week. We did good looking and listening. We waited for our turn and mixed the ingredients together. The mixture smelled good before baking and even better after. Everyone enjoyed eating the warm cookies!

We brought the curtain down on a very busy but successful first term. We have made lots of friends and learned lots of amazing facts and skills over the past 8 weeks. The highlight of this week was our funny but edible squishy ghosts we made during Food Technology. Enjoy the pics below, and we ... Continue reading Half Term in Ness →