Weekly News – Friday 28th April
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School News
May Day Holiday – a reminder that the school is closed on Monday for the May Day Holiday.
Positive Destinations. We are inviting ex-pupils of the school to either post on our Facebook page or email the School – gw08officecastle@dumgal.gov.uk to tell us about what jobs they have done and any achievements they would like to share. This is to add to our ‘Positive Destinations Wall Display’ to give our current pupils some ideas and information about their future aspirations.
Class news
Primary 1
We had a super time at Dino Land on Tuesday. Imogen said,”I liked to go on the bouncy castle” and Euan said,” I liked the big gorilla”. Georgie said, ” I liked doing the mystery wall. I felt a giant fossil.” Caleb said, ” I liked playing on the bouncy house. It was a great way to end our dinosaur topic.”
Primary 1/2
We are enjoying our new Transport topic. This week we have been learning about why we might use different modes of transport and which is the best option for different journeys. We enjoyed using the water tray to explore floating and sinking and the cars and ramps for pushing and pulling.
Primary 2a
We have been learning the days for the week in French. We have been learning about smaller and larger numbers within 100.
Shea – “I found it quite easy.”
Maxi – “It made me think about numbers.”
We have been looking at what we want to learn about the seaside.
Ollie – “Why does the water make a swoosh sound?”
Kiana – “How are the sea shells made?”
Gary – “How is sand made?”
Primary 2b
We enjoyed doing drama this week moving like crabs, octopuses and turtles.
In art we have been making patterns on shells and string prints.
In French we have started learning parts of the body.
Isla started Rainbows this week and she really enjoyed it.
Our football with Active Schools starts again next Friday – so can we have outdoor clothing with us on Friday’s please?
Primary 3b
We had a visit from Freda from the Dumfries and Galloway Bat Group. We learned lots of facts. Our favourite fact is that bats only eat the moth’s body not the wings.
We have been looking in detail at Salvador Dali’s drippy clock and learning the origins of the names of the days of the week.
Primary 4
We had a visit from Victoria, a personal trainer who led us through circuit exercises which we will continue over the next few weeks. In maths we have been working on time and we made our own analogue clocks.
Primary 4/5
Our topic is learning about Ancient Egypt.
Abbey S – “We have been learning new songs for our assembly.”
Megan – “I have enjoyed practising our assembly.”
Aillie – “I have worked hard to practise my times tables.”
You should have an invite home today to our Ancient Egypt assembly. It is on Friday 12th May at 10:45am.
Primary 5
“On Wednesday the class went on a hillwalk in Carsphairn. We started at a farm then we went through the farm but we had to be really quiet as there were lots of young lambs. Once we got to the end of the farm we had to walk through a big lake of mud. Before we started our proper walk we had a 5 minute snack. Then we headed off!!!! We had to climb a very massive tall hill but it was worth doing. Half way up we got to go in the grouse butts. We tried to all go in it but it never worked. Then we got to the top of the big hill so we went in two lines in search for rocks with a cross on it that someone had made. Ryan had a good idea to pour water over the rock. So you could see it and it worked. After we looked at the rock we headed back down and we came to a wood that was all gone. It was just things everywhere . Mia and Charley got their feet stuck in a swamp. Then we came to the end of our walk but at the end there was a small village that had been around in the past.
One house would have had one room for the animals and one for the humans and the street was called Narrow Street. Then we went back to the bus and back to school.”
Primary 6
Maths – We have been working on our date handling by finding average from a set of data, using mean, mode, median and range.
Literacy – We have been working on our speech marks. We made an Acronym to remember the order of our planets.
Topic – We have been learning about space and our planets. They are part of our Solar System.
Hannah, Morgan, Jess and Callie all finished an item at Stitchclub. Rhianna has been learning her own gymnastic skills. Emma has passed level one in snow boarding. The boys played football at Threave and did well.
Reminders for Next Week
P1/2 – May 5th Traffic Survey in the community. Assembly 19th May – Please return RSVP and practise words at home.
P3b – Our class hamper for the summer fete is on the theme of “Pamper” goodies to be sent to the school by Friday 5th.
P6 – A reminder that Kingswood Money is due.
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