Solar eclipse

On Friday morning, as the children come to school, there will be a solar eclipse occurring. On Thursday we will discuss how to protect your eyes during that time by highlighting

• You should never look directly at the sun
• Sunglasses will not be a suitable way to protect your eyes if looking at the eclipse
• Any damage caused could be permanent 

Please help to spread this safety message to keep everyone safe on Friday morning. 

Red Nose Day Fun!

Our school did a brilliant job of raising money for Comic Relief on Friday.  We had 'make your face funny for money', stalls, face painting, nail bar, cake sales and a talent show.  Here are some pictures from the day.

P2 Book

P2 are working with Eden's mum Claire to make a class book.  We are sending 'Moppie' on a journey around Stromness.  The children have written the story, put it in the correct order and are now working in pairs to create a rough draft of the pages.  We have seen some excellent team work and brilliant ideas.

Today's numeracy and a wee reminder

Today Primary 2 were drawing funny monsters and had to write a dividing sum related to their monster e.g "My monster has 4 legs, how many monsters would there be if there were 16 legs?"
We swapped monsters and questions to solve each others problems.  Some of us did this mentally, using a number line or putting cubes into groups.

Wee reminder:

Auditions for Friday's talent show will be held tomorrow (Wednesday) in our classroom.  We will then choose 2 acts to put forward into Friday's talent show.

World Book Day!

We have gotten off to a good start.  Primary 2 have had the chance to show off their characters to each other and the wholes school.  We all met in the hall this morning to show off our costumes.

Strictly...

Today we were treated to the winning performance from Orkney's Strictly Come Dancing.  Mr MacIntosh and Mrs Aberdein were in costume this time and thoroughly entertained the school.  They have helped to raise a fantastic amount for charity. Well done!

Spelling

Today we have been working on words that have i with magic e.  Children worked in small groups to come up with words in that group and some used class dictionaries to check their answers.