School Blog

Last week we celebrated Book Week with lots of exciting activities. We took part in a whole school book swap, and our parents joined us for cosy hot chocolate, biscuits and lots of fun Read, Write, Count activities. Primary 3 also had great fun creating book characters from potatoes and joined the school to create ... Continue reading P3 Book Week! →

Primary 5 are enjoying a fantastic week celebrating Book Week Scotland! We started with a lovely visit to the library where everyone had the chance to browse, and chat about their favourite stories. Back in school, we held a fun book swap, giving pupils the opportunity to discover new authors and genres through books shared ... Continue reading Book Week Scotland in P5! →

Continuing our celebration of books and reading for enjoyment during this Book Week we went for a visit to West Calder Library. The rain did not put us off and we had a lovely walk into West Calder. Ann the librarian was very welcoming and delighted to see us. She read us a very funny ... Continue reading P4/3 Visit to the Library →

We got Book Week Scotland off to a fun start with our hosting party in P4/3. Some of our parents and carers joined us this afternoon to do some fun activities related to books. P3 were gifted a Read, Write, Count bag and P4 were gifted a new book. We all enjoyed creating a book ... Continue reading P4/3 Gifting Party →

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 →

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 →

This week in primary 7 we have been working on our house captain speeches and polling stations for voting! We have also been working on the videos that where shown yesterday in classes! In math we have been working on long division and we are doing excellent!! In spelling we are doing long words that ... Continue reading A new week in P7! →

We have enjoyed another busy, busy, week! We have loved playing in the colours of the Sensory Room and have also enjoyed exploring Autumnal colours in our Topic work...where we have also enjoyed listening to songs to do with the leaves changing colour and falling from the trees. In our Art work we have enjoyed ... Continue reading TheLifeofTay! →

We have been doing number talks / number stories since the start of primary 7 and we all as a class have been doing very well been very successful. And then now we do division.While doing our division in class our teacher taught us bus stop division at the start it was tricky but now ... Continue reading Our year in primary 7 so far →

We have had a wonderful week! As the weather has turned a little more Autumnal we have enjoyed time in the Outdoor Classroom and the Sensory Room, where we have enjoyed the lights and the music! In class we have worked on our find motor skills with dabbing practice. We have also made great progress ... Continue reading TheLifeofTay! →

Each week we love our time outdoors with Miss Nelson. Last week we were out in the woods exploring and playing. We were given a task to create a home for an animal using any materials we could find lying around. We used acorns, sticks, leaves, stones, string, little pieces of bricks and rocks. We ... Continue reading Fun in P4/3 →

In Health and Wellbeing, P3 have been learning all about food. We found out where food comes from and used the Eatwell Guide to learn about healthy choices. We also talked about how to stay safe when preparing food, like washing our hands and using equipment carefully. The best part was making and tasting healthy ... Continue reading Primary 3 Try Healthy Food! →