Month: February 2022

P2/3 February 2022

We are continuing with our Fettercairn Countryside topic and have enjoyed a walk around the village.  Some of us captured our walk on camera while the rest of us completed our observation sheet.  We discussed the flood defence area and the purpose of it.

In technologies we have been learning how to use our chrome books to carry out research.  We had questions about the Fettercairn Royal Arch that we wanted to find the answers to and we worked with a partner to retrieve the information.

We also planned and designed how we would construct our own Royal Arch out of Lego.  We worked with a partner and a carefully constructed our arches.  The attention to detail was fantastic!

In literacy we are promoting and encouraging our enjoyment of reading in our classroom; ‘Be Excited About Reading’.  One of the children has illustrated our B.E.A.R while others helped to paint it.  As a class we have decided to name her Berry.  We are also developing our reading corner to create a more enjoyable, relaxing space to read.

In art we had the pleasure of a parent in to help us to design and create story stones.  We will place these in our reading corner so that we can tell our own stories to others.

We have been focusing on friendship in health and wellbeing and thinking about what qualities we think are most important to us in a friend.  The children then created their own ‘friendship recipe’, discussing which ‘ingredient’ was most important in our ‘friendship recipe’.  The recipe was a perfect blend!

P6/7 February 2022

In literacy, P6/7 have been analysing the Tale of the Three Brothers from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. We created detailed story maps depicting the main points of the story. We are now learning to write narrative poems and will use the Tale of the Three Brothers as our inspiration.

We have started to apply our learning of Figurative Language (alliteration, similes/metaphors, onomatopoeia, personification) to our writing.

We finished our Fractions topic in maths and have moved onto Data and Analysis. So far, we have learned how to interpret and read bar and line graphs. The children chose what they would like to gather data on before drawing their own graphs.

Next week we will be looking at pie charts in more depth, before creating a display in the school hall showing how many pupils attend clubs and activities with graphs and charts.

Last week we celebrated Children’s Mental Health week – this year’s theme was Growing Together. We took part in a live assembly before discussing how we can look after our mental health. The children were encouraged to think about their support network that they can go to for help if needed.

We have been focusing on Substance Misuse and have so far learned about the dangers of smoking and drinking alcohol. Next week we will be learning about legal and illegal drugs.

Our current topic is Energy and Sustainability. We learned about what it means to be sustainable. To start our topic, we learned about the Global Goals for Sustainable Development, and we have chosen the ones we would like to focus on (see picture below). We also explored renewable and non-renewable sources of energy, discussing advantages and disadvantages of things like oil, coal, wind energy, geothermal energy, solar energy etc. This week we started learning about Oil and Gas in Scotland – we looked at what happens on an oil rig and how we get oil, and the children will make a poster for our wall display showing what they have learned.

We were very fortunate to have Mrs Armstrong with us last week doing an art lesson. The children made robots using electrical circuits before doing some robot-themed prints. P6/7 have been enjoying drama recently, where we have been looking at improvising and playing a character, thinking about body language and facial expressions.

P1 February 2022

In PE  we are working on balancing into tuck, we will be moving on to rolls and then creating a gymnastic routine using apparatus by the end of term. We have enjoyed a rugby lesson and will be doing two more.

We have begun to read and write words with 2 letter sounds sh and th. We enjoyed listening to and learning some Scottish words such as favourite animals. We were excited to find out that the Bookbug Picture Book Prize 2022 went to ’Inch and Grub’ which was also the book which got the most votes in our class.  In French we joined in a live online lesson during Languages Week and are working on numbers to 10.

In Numeracy we consolidated addition facts to 5 including missing numbers and adding 3 numbers. We have been telling the time on the hour with digital and analogue clocks.

As part of our Weather topic we looked at what makes ice melt, and we are working on presenting our own weather forecasts. We have made winter pictures in Art.

P4/5 – Blog Update February

Hello everyone! I hope you all had a lovely mid-term break.

Topic

I hope all the children are managing to fill in their moon chart for the month! We have been learning about properties of the sun and moon, why we have night and day, and we are now learning about the properties of each planet in our solar system. We are going to use this information to create presentations in groups to feedback to the rest of the class.
We watched a BBC documentary called ‘Universe’ with Brian Cox which was very interesting!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p09ybpb8/universe-series-1-1-the-sun-god-star

PE

Primary 4-5 are starting a block of gymnastics. We are working on skills such as jumps, leaps, and rolls with the goal of creating a sequence using elements of all the skills we have learned.

 

Maths

The children finished fractions with learning how to express them in their simplest form and we are now moving on to learning about decimals and percentages. As before, if primary 4/5 are finding this tricky they are not confident with their times tables. If you would like some extra practice at home, you can visit https://www.timestables.co.uk/.

 

Expressive Arts

We were lucky enough to have Mrs Armstrong come in and visit us last week and the children created some amazing shaving foam marbling and used the patterns to make planets on a splatter background. The children then used coloured sand to make textured planets which we hung from the washing line in the classroom. Both projects turned out amazing and we were very grateful for her visit!                                                                                                                                    

French

The children were learning to say and write classroom objects in French. They were telling me what was in their pencil case, and what colour the items were!