Hello Everyone!

Primary 4-5 have been busy this term with lots of activities such as learning about fire safety, sessions with the SSPCA about animals and mental health and making poppies for Remembrance Day.

Literacy

This term, we have been working on creative writing. The children are working towards writing a Christmas-themed story. We started with traits of characters and listened to some good examples from popular stories. Then we created our own characters to use in our writing. Next, we used the 5 senses to create a setting e.g. ‘my character can see…’. Then the children went on to plan their stories and come up with a plot. I can’t wait to read what the children write once they bring all of this learning together!

We have been talking about WOW words a lot this term and have been identifying them in popular stories. The children have been practicing saying these out loud with an accompanying action so that the words they are saying have more of an impact, for example, BELLOWING!!!

 

Maths

This term, in number with Miss Riley, the children have been working on the four operations – addition, subtraction, multiplication and will be starting term 3 with division. We have worked hard to learn lots of different methods to figure out these problems, so that the children can choose which methods suits them best for each individual problem.

In beyond number with Miss Davie, the children have been learning about time and money. They have been answering questions about time durations, reading timetables and working out the duration of time between two times. The children have been carrying out practical tasking using money and adding and subtracting amounts of money and giving change.

 

Health and Wellbeing

Primary 4-5 have been working on their gymnastics skills in PE with Miss Davie. The children have been learning to balance and link movements. With Miss Riley, we have been learning to play Kurling and Boccia and are having a little tournament against the rest of the class. The children have learned the rules of these games and how to score them.

We are also learning about relationships in health and wellbeing. The children are identifying features of healthy relationships with friends and caregivers and how to promote positive interactions in these. We are working on conflict resolution within these relationships also.

 

Other Curricular Areas

Languages

The children have been learning greetings in French with Miss Riley and are learning how to say a short greeting to introduce themselves.

Primary 4-5 have been learning a little Russian from Mrs Smith this term. They have learned how to say, hello, how are you? And my name is…

Now, they are learning a Russian song!

 

RME

The class have been learning about Hinduism this term with Miss Davie. They are learning about the main beliefs and practices of the religion and have been learning about Diwali.

 

Topic

Our topic this term has been States of Matter. The children learning about solid, liquid and gas and how one changes into the other. We are learning about the boiling and freezing point of liquid and carried out some experiments to determine what things were soluble or insoluble. We changed some variables such as heat and stirring and observed the effect they had on the dissolving. We also learned about saturating water with salt and sugar.

 

Christmas

As always, this term is choc-a-bloc with learning songs and lines for the Christmas show. The children have been absolutely excellent, and I can’t wait for you all to see their hard work on Thursday evening!

The class made some wreaths with Mrs Gatherum, Christmas cards with Miss Riley and are writing a review of their panto trip this week.

 

All in all, we’ve had a brilliant, busy term. Thanks so much to those of you who took the time to come and meet me for parents’ meetings. I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and New Year and I’ll see everyone in 2023!