The Pine class teacher this year is Sarah Connolly. Watch this space for updates from Pine class throughout the year!

February 2026

Pine Class have been enjoying the Topic of Rainbows and Sounds this term. For this half term our focus is rainbows and learning about each colour of the rainbow, alongside books that have a focus on Rainbows or Colour. The first week of term our focus was the whole rainbow, and we read the Rainbow Fish, learning all about sharing and friendship. Together, we created a large tissue paper rainbow for the classroom and a big Rainbow Fish for our corridor display. When our weekly focus was the colour red, we did some beautiful mark making with red paint and rollers, we celebrated Burns with all things Scottish and tartan and for “yellow week”, we used lots of different textiles to create bright yellow collages.

Each week for our class music session we have been listening to songs about each colour. Our favourite so far has been yellow, where we listened to the Beatles song “Yellow Submarine”, Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” and Dolly Parton’s “Yellow Roses”. We also made some yellow playdough during our messy play session which was a big hit!

Pine class have also been given the opportunity to be part of a dance project where we will be working with two dancers to create a dance performance for the Lothian Dance Festival! The pupils are thoroughly enjoying these sessions, and we are looking forward to the festival.

December 2025

Pine Class have had a brilliant winter term so far. We have continued to bond well as a class and are having so much fun together. Our favourite activities are karate with Andy, Clown Doctors visits, lunch break visits to soft play and sessions in the Magic Carpet room. We have been out and about this term and had an excellent Holyrood Challenge
session with Lily at the Holyrood Park Education Centre. Lily shared a brilliant, interactive sensory story all about Autumn and Halloween which we thoroughly enjoyed.
Highlights in Pine class this term have been Frankie winning an art competition and meeting the Lord Provost on Princes Street for the Grand Opening of his Christmas Bus Stop. Millie, Omar and Anya all got to have a session at the Ice Rink which they all absolutely loved. We’ve also had some fantastic story sessions led by Catherine from Granton Library and the class loved their surprise joint music session with Rowan class which was led by the fantastic Julia Main. We are now getting stuck into all things Christmas and have been busy making lots of edible Christmas gifts and decorations to sell at the fayre.

September 2025

Pine Class have had a brilliant first few weeks of the new school year! With lots of new faces in the room, we’ve been working hard getting to know each other and it’s absolutely lovely to see new friendship bonds being made already.  The class have been getting to know the new daily routines and have enjoyed lots of new lessons and activities together. 

So far, the class favourites have been singing songs together, outdoor playtimes, messy play and switch toys!

Our class topic this term is “This is Me” so we have been focussing on sharing our likes and dislikes and learning all about each other. We are also doing lots of science based lessons and learning about our faces and our bodies by looking in mirrors and at photographs and joining in with lots of music and sensory stories. Over the next few weeks we will be learning about family and friends and will hopefully find out even more interesting things about each other.