Aitkenhead PS Parent Council

A huge thank you to these wonderful helpers who came this morning to start weeding and clearing the outdoor learning space. It’s an enormous job and your help to get started is much appreciated! If anyone else is available to help on a Friday morning please get in touch! 🤩

✨🔢 Hands-on learning in P1! 🎉 The children have loved exploring the sounds r and m through fun, active learning experiences 📚🔤, while also using Numicon to investigate and visualise number bonds to 10 🟠🔵➕🤩 #LearningThroughPlay #P1

🎆✨Primary 1 enjoyed exploring the print and stamp technique to create colourful firework art. They had fun experimenting with colour, pattern and texture. 🎨💥🌟 Great work P1! 👏 ⭐️ #P1Learning #ExpressiveArts #Fireworks ✨🎆

The STEM Heroes enjoyed learning about the forces at work when an aeroplane flies. They made 3 different designs and tested them out.

The Responsible Reading Stars visited Viewpark Parish Church today to refill our community box of books. Please go along and help yourself to a book 📕 Let others in our community know there are free books to enjoy! @ViewparkPChurch

Today at Leadership Academy time the Outdoor Explorers began weeding the outdoor learning space. This is an enormous job but they made a great start! Well done everyone 🤩

Primary 3/2 have thoroughly enjoyed learning about Sea Creatures this term. After choosing the topic themselves they have researched lots of animals and finished off the topic by creating these models of habitats for the sea creatures they have learned about. 🐬 🐙 🐟 🦈

👀✨ P1 have been exploring their ‘sense of sight’ through hands-on, playful learning! We used manipulatives to label the parts of the eye, went fishing for ‘s’ sounds 🎣 and searched through the sand to find them too! 🏖️🔎 #PlayBasedLearning #P1

🌰🍂 A wonderful afternoon of curious minds and creative play in P1 & P2/1. The boys and girls loved exploring and experimenting with conker runs, using trial and error to test their ideas, solve problems and make changes. They also enjoyed painting beautiful conker designs 🎨🦔

This afternoon we had a girls team and a boys team at the P6/7 Football Festival. Well done to them all for showing such great teamwork, determination and resilience in their games! Thank you to Mr Rankin for coaching the boys.

Primary 7 chose to learn about the foods of Mexico. They made homemade nachos, salsa and guacamole as well as quesadillas. Lots of great knife and grating skills developed.

🔵🔺 2D Shape Fun in P1! 🔺🟨 This afternoon we explored 2D shapes and used their properties to identify them. We enjoyed a 2D Shape Monster game, created our own shape artwork and used stencils to trace around shapes to make our very own shape people! 👏 🤩

🐷💗 Oh-oh... where has P1 gone? 🤔🐽 They've all turned into little piggies! The children have been learning the letter sound 'p' and loved using their pink paper plate pigs for some fun phonics learning. 🐷🎨✨ #P1 #PhonicsFun

🍂 🐦 P1 have been helping our garden birds this autumn by making bird feeders! 🌳🍂 We placed them at different heights in the trees and we’ll monitor them over the coming days to see which feeders are eaten from most. 👀 🐦 #RSPBWildChallenge @KSBScotland

📿✨ “N” is for nice necklace! P1 had lots of fun making colourful pasta necklaces while practising the letter sound /n/. ♥️ 💚 💙🧡💛 The threading was also fantastic for developing those all-important fine motor skills! 👐 🤩#P1Learning #PlayBasedLearning

Primary 4/3 have loved learning about the foods of Spain. They enjoyed making patatas bravas and Spanish vegetable skewers. We have some keen chefs in this class, well done everyone!

Today we presented a cheque to Louise from St. Andrew’s Hospice for the money we raised from the bake sale. She also spoke to us about the work that the charity does and how much we’ve raised as a school. It’s over £32000, an absolutely fantastic amount! 👏

Primary 6 have had a fantastic two weeks exploring the foods of Italy. They were learning the bridge and claw knife technique to make tomato pasta and a flatbread pizza 🍝 🍕

🍂🍎 P1 have been exploring the sights and textures of autumn! We used our senses of sight and touch to investigate autumn leaves, then used apples from our school grounds to create 🍎 apple-print paintings. 🎨✨ @KSBScotland

Well done to our children in Primary 3-7 that entered the national Primary Engineer Competition to design a product that solved a real life problem. The engineer judges were very impressed, even awarding some distinctions 👏🏻