School Blog

Our book of the week was Little Red Riding Hood. We'll continue some activities related to this next week. We've made the most of some lovely weather - playing in the field and the kick pitch. Several children explored their shadows on the kick pitch fence. In class, some children played with the dienes materials ... Continue reading Lomond Class →

P5 have been hard at work as we head into the latter stages of the spring term. How can that be? We had some incredible entries for the Burns Competition at the beginning of February and are proud to say that the overall winner was one of ours! Could that possible be blue sky? Outdoor ... Continue reading P5 Latest 6.3.26 →

A celebration of Books in Ness class helped by Primary 7 pupils this week. We enjoyed our Book Hunt, especially with our P7 friends helping out. Later that day, we enjoyed making Oat Cookies after writing about our new Superhero Captain Oatie!

This week in P3 we had lots of exciting activities, including celebrating World Book Day and welcoming our families into school for Sharing Our Learning. To celebrate World Book Day, we took part in several fun literacy activities. The children designed their own book covers and wrote a short story to match their ideas. We ... Continue reading P3 →

This week our class enjoyed a lovely trip to the swing park on a beautiful sunny day. The children had a fantastic time playing on the swings, climbing frames, and slides while enjoying the warm weather. There was lots of laughter and excitement as everyone took turns trying the different equipment and playing together. It ... Continue reading Swing Park Fun in Nurture Class →

Another busy learning week in Primary 1. We have been learning all about living things with a focus on plants We discussed what plants need to grow and the different parts of plants. It was agreed that we would like to grow our own plants so in class we have planted sunflower seeds and ... Continue reading Primary 1 →

It was sweet week and we made chocolate truffles. We had to get our hands messy this week to roll the ingredients into balls. It was hard not to eat some as we were cooking ‍ as it was very tasty Lots of skills were used making our truffles, smashing, scooping, mixing, rolling and ... Continue reading Cooking club week 2 →

What a day! We all loved World Book Day, especially coming to school wearing our pyjamas and some of us dressed up as our favourite book character. Darcy - I liked the Authors Live. Freya - After Authors Live we did our own comic strip characters! Mine's is called Cherry Girl and her super power ... Continue reading World Book Day P4/3 →

With the arrival of the Spring sunshine, we have had a lovely week inside and out! In class, we have been practicing our motor control skills and pencil control. We have also been practicing matching lower, and upper case letters. We have also begun to learn about CVC words. In our Maths some of us ... Continue reading TheLifeOf Tay! →

Today P3 took part in Energy Saving Hour organised by the ECO committee. For one whole hour, we switched off the lights, put away the iPads, and didn't use any technology at all even our Smart Board stayed off! During this time, we completed our Friday 5 and enjoyed some free writing. We had ... Continue reading P3 →

ENERGY HOUR AT ST MARY'S! We are all being Eco Warriors! On Friday we had our Energy Hour where the whole school switched energy off in order to play our part in being eco friendly. The Eco Committee asked that we all refrain from using laptops, iPads, lights in the classroom and staff laptops ... Continue reading Primary 4/3 - Energy Hour →

We had a great start to cooking club, this week was savoury week and we made pizza rolls . Everyone followed the instructions well to make a delicious treat. We had to spread, fold, sprinkle, and baste our rolls before putting them in the oven to cook. We all worked very well collaboratively. Grace - ... Continue reading Cooking club week 1 →