Mrs McIntyre – St Andrew's Primary School Blog

P4 Karate Session

P4 are comparing Scotland to Japan this term. They had great fun speaking Japanese, learning about Japanese culture and trying some Karate moves this week with Alan from the Dumfries Wado Kai Association. Thanks to Active Schools for helping us arrange it. Watch this space as there could possibly be an after school karate club coming up next term!

As we ended the term this week P4 celebrated everything they have learned about Renewable Energy by sharing their fantastic homework projects. They were so impressive with everything from working water wheels, to erupting volcanoes, geothermal power plants, solar powered homes and wind turbines. Some of the boys and girls even sent me videos on Teams explaining how their models worked and the presentation skills were super!

Thank you P4 for all the hard work. I think you all had fun too and learned lots!

P4 Coding dance Party

This week P4 learned how to create code on Code.org Dance Party. They had so much fun choosing their own background, music, characters and moves in the tutorial. Well done to David Molka for going home and practising more then uploading his work to Teams for everyone to enjoy! I look forward to more of you sharing your learning with me in this new transition to on-line, home learning!

Georgetown Library Visit for P4

Primary 4 were Responsible Citizens this morning, making use of their local library to enhance their learning about non-fiction and learning how to return books very carefully to their correct place. They heard all about The Dewey Decimal System,the classification system used in libraries,to order books by subject. They then did some challenges finding information from the non-fiction book of their choice and cracking a fun code using Dewey Decimal numbers to find the missing words. Bibi loved finding a book on Anne Frank as she was that character at World Book Day last week and David loved the Science books as Science is one of his favourite subjects! The lovely librarians would be sure to have us back as everyone was so well-behaved and hard-working. It was a super morning for us all.

Celebration of Learning in Primary 4

P4 had a super afternoon sharing their learning with mums, dads, grandparents, aunts and uncles on Tuesday.

Zac and Daniel made a Powerpoint to show about the use of magnetics in trains. Whilst other boys and girls worked well designing magnetic games for their parents to play. Some of our visitors were shocked to see us drawing tracks for cars on or tables with fun chalk pens! It was great to see Sion and Milli incorporating maths times tables questions into the scoring too!

To learn about Non-fiction some of us were in the library trying to complete a Scavenger hunt, whilst in the hall some groups taught The Flying Scotsman to the adults. Well done all those who joined in with the fun.

We showed off our new Green Screen skills with our News Presentations from Stirling Castle and the Newsroom! Not to mention singing in French and trying some K-Nex challenges.

We hope our mums and dads had as much fun as we did learning and playing together.

Amazing Art

Farrah Hunter in P4 shared her artistic talents with us this week. She chose to research a famous artist and research facts about him. A fantastic piece of homework and a lovely decoration for our school corridor! Well done Farrah.

P4 IDL Homework Robert the Bruce

Well done to Milli and her dad for this fantastic effort in IDL homework. Milli tells us the sword is 44 inches long which she researched was the real length of Robert the Bruces sword. She also learned her family Motto was Sero Sed Serio (late but in earnest). Milli was our Pupil of the Week this Friday. Looking forward to lots more great homework from P4!

Bannockburn and Stirling Castle for P4

Last Friday P4 enjoyed a fantastic trip to learn more about their topic Robert the Bruce. They got to see and feel real weapons used in the battles and they took part in a brilliant interactive Bannockburn Battle Experience. They changed history and the English team won! There was lots of tactical discussion and great involvement. After lunch we toured Stirling Castle where there was so much to see and do. We enjoyed learning about life in the castle kitchens and the Great Hall. Lots of us want to go back as we didn’t have time to see and do everything even though we were non-stop. P4 highly recommend a trip as the Castle has a lot of interactive activities for families to do. As usual super behaviour P4 well done!

Art at St Joseph’s for P4

On Wednesday Primary 4 went to St Joseph’s and worked collaboratively to produce a fantastic collage of the Monet Water Lillies painting. Erin Dear in S6 planned a wonderful range of group activities along with her Art teacher Mr Davolls. Erin helps in our classes for work experience and is applying to become a Primary Teacher. We wish her every success. P4 thoroughly enjoyed working in the Art Department and a group will go back next week to finish the Balsa wood bridge.