On Wednesday the whole school went into the hall and had a ceilidh to celebrate Robert Burns. Every class performed a dance while the rest of the school clapped along. We danced the  Military Two Step,  which we had been practising with Mr Galbraith in P.E. We then taught the dance to another class. Alex and Lewis also performed the poem we have been learning ‘Scottish Rain’ by Tom Bryan. We had a great afternoon.

This term, Primary 4 are developing their swimming skills at Tullos swimming pool every Wednesday. Last week some of us were learning how to kick our legs properly, others were learning how to do the front crawl in the deep end and another group were jumping in the pool. We are all enjoying swimming and are looking forward to what we are going to learn next Wednesday.

Welcome to Term 3. We have another exciting and busy term ahead. Have a look at our newsletter to find out what we will be learning this term.

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Today P4 were challenged to build a Christmas decoration out of Knex . However each bit of Knex also had a cost and they had to build it for under £5.00. This challenge tested P4’s teamwork, creativity, budgeting and problem solving skills. At the end of the challenge, considering both the cost and the design, the class voted on their favourite decoration.  We had great fun!

Here are photos of us in action:

This term in P4 we have been learning to write instructions.

P4 were then set the challenge of using their knowledge of instructions to present a ‘How to…’ talk to the class, showing the class how to make something of their choosing.

The criteria for the talks were:

• Introduce your talk
• State what resources and equipment you need
• Use sequencing sentence openers as you present each step
• Talk clearly and loudly
• Show the audience what you are making
• Round off your talk

We have really enjoyed listening and learning from each other. Some of the things we have learnt to make this week include: a diamond snowflake, a Christmas cracker, a rice snowman, a Christmas card, a cardboard tube reindeer, Christmas baubles and many more.

We have had a great afternoon investigating numbers using a new resource called Numicon. We have created number lines and played ‘missing number’. We have also played ‘hidden number’ and have had to ask questions to guess which Numicon shape was hidden in the bag.

Here are some of the questions we asked to guess the number:

• Is it odd or even?
• How many times does 3 go ito it?
• What colour is it?
• Is it a two digit number?
• Is it greater than 6?

P4 have really enjoyed investigating numbers.

This term the P4s have been busy making decorations for the European Decoration Exchange Project. We have made 30 decorations and have sent them to 30 countries from all over Europe along with a booklet, in which we have included information on how we celebrate Christmas.

We are looking forward to receiving our decorations from across Europe and finding out about how they celebrate Christmas.

Please click on the link below to access our class newsletter for this term. We have a new exciting project this term!

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This week we have had our first Mandarin lesson. We were learning how to greet each other in Mandarin. We had a great time practising our greetings to the soft toy panda and tiger and singing a song in Mandarin.

Here is us in action!

The girls from P4 along with girls from P3 & P3/4 went to a football festival at Northfield Academy. We had a great morning developing our skills at coaching stations and playing some small sided games. We even met some girls who play for Aberdeen Football Team.