Click here to see one of our pupils in the 100wc showcase!! Well done Claire

At midnight my brother was having a party and suddenly the loud music stopped. Everyone screamed, this place is haunted, lets get out of here. When everybody left there was a shadowy figure on the pitch dark stage. Out of the corner of my eye all I could see were two red eyes in the darkness. I was terrified. I ran to my mum. Aahh!! What’s the matter, she said. There’s red eyes over there and the music stopped. This house is haunted! My mum said, no the house isn’t haunted. The red eyes are your rabbit and we’ve just had a power cut!

One day Emily came round to my house and she slept over. We were watching TV when the TV went off. All I could see was two red eyes. Me and Emily screamed and my dad came rushing down. What is the matter? We saw two red eyes! Out of the shadows there was a vampire. Help, we said, there is a vampire in my room. When the vampire came out we saw it was Ryan dressed up. Booo! Ryan said. You scared me, Emily said. Then there was a noise. I bet that is a real vampire, I said to Emily. Shwoop…… what was that? Just the wind. I think…….

I was in the middle of a dark, scary forest when suddenly all I could see were two red eyes, staring at me. Having decided that I had to try to escape from it, I ran for my life. I thought it was a werewolf. As I glanced behind I saw he was still chasing me. Then there was a big howl. Finally he turned round. I started to slow down to catch my breath. Suddenly I walked into a tree and fell over. “Ouch,” I said. I got up and dodged the trees before I hurt myself again. I started to run like mad……

On Friday we had a visit from singer, musician and teacher,Matthew Todd. He entertained the children with a ballad and some very funny singing games, followed by a reading from his  novel, For the King. The children were transfixed throughout the session, and as always their behaviour and enthusiasm was outstanding! Thank you Matthew, come back soon!

We had lots of fun on Wednesday playing games and dancing at the BP centre with P5/20. Check out the spooky costumes.  

Click here to visit this week’s focus school. We are back in the USA….. please leave them a comment. 😀

This term we have PE on Friday with Mrs Cruickshank ( full kit required) and Social Dancing on Wednesday ( gym shoes required.)Reading or reading-based activities will take place throughout the week, so please ensure your child has their book with them every day. We will begin working on products for our Eco Christmas fair as part of our Eco School activities, and the fair will take place sometime in December, date to follow.

This term the spelling programme in Primary 4 and 5 is changing in line with the North Lanarkshire Active Literacy Project, which is being implemented across the whole school. The new ‘Phonics into Spelling’ programme for P4 and 5 encourages children to develop their phonological skills and to use their knowledge to help them spell accurately as well as reading with understanding and expression. Pupils will be involved in daily phonics lessons based on focused phonemes. Along with the in-class spelling, pupils will also be given weekly spelling list which they are to work on at home – these will be words which are suitable for each pupil’s spelling ability, providing adequate challenge. Some weeks these homework spelling lists will be completely individual to the pupil (words selected from their own writing). Pupils are expected to learn their personal spelling list, however there will not be a set spelling test each week. The pupils’ spelling will be assessed through their written work and in class spelling tasks.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Mrs Maclean

We are going to look at the kinds of wild animals that live in our environment. Click here to add your ideas to our wall.

We have a picture prompt this week….. and I think it might be something you’ve seen before! Click here to have a look at the photo. Good luck with your writing, remember to check punctuation and spelling!