This term we have been able to start our Roots of Empathy lessons, the children have been learning how to understand other people’s feelings and their own. The program has been modified so that the children get to know our Roots of Empathy family: baby Alan and mum Jordan through videos and photographs. The lessons are delivered by instructor Mrs Harris-Toner and our ‘little teacher’ is baby Alan. The children have really enjoyed getting to know baby Alan and hear his news.
The children have shared their experiences of lock down through their artwork and the roles they have at home and in school. Last week the children had lots of fun learning about and demonstrating how baby Alan uses body language to communicate his feelings. 
For more information please ask Mrs Harris-Toner, Mrs McDermot and Miss McArthur. Also check out http://www.rootsofempathy.org

We have been learning all about spring and enjoying observing the changes around us. The boys and girls enjoyed a Spring treasure hunt this week and they discovered lots of exciting insects and flowers in our playground!

As part of our Superhero topic, we looked at a super ‘woman’ this week called Amelia Earhart and learned about how things fly. This tied in nicely with International Woman’s Day on Monday.To commemorate her, we followed instructions to make our own paper planes then tested them outside afterwards 😃 ✈️

P2 were enjoying their Friday last week.

Primary 1/2 were learning about fractions. We made whole paper plate pizzas. Then we cut them into two equal parts to learn about a 1/2. We had great fun!

We had a wonderful day celebrating all things book related. All children enjoyed an interactive sorry and rhyme  session with Christine at Fountainbridge Library and we took time to think about our favourite book and why we like it. We extended our library and spent the day exploring new texts of different genres.