Our Weekly School News – Sharing our learning with the school Community
The Learning Centre are planning an evening to raise funds. It will take place on Friday 30th November at Threave Rovers Social Club – times and details to be confirmed.
If you, or any friends/family would like to have a table at the event to sell and/or exhibit your creations/crafts, then please get in touch to reserve a table. (£10 per table).
We would also very much appreciate any donations for a raffle.
Tickets for the event will hopefully go on sale in the next week or two – numbers will be limited so make sure you don’t miss out!! Thanks
Poppies will be on sale in the next week. Our P7 pupils will be visiting classes if any pupil wishes to purchase any.
Please have a look at what some of our Classes have been up to this week.
Primary 1a
We have had a spooky, fun-filled week! We have read and listened to Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson and have taken part in lots of spooky activities linked to the story. We had lots of fun carving some pumpkins – we made Harry Potter, a witch, a cat and a vampire. Photos taken by Murry and Finlay. We also thought about who we would invite to ride our broom – we wrote some lovely lists of people who would go on adventures with us!
We also celebrated Global Outdoor Classroom Day, spending time in different outdoor areas this Thursday. We practiced writing our numbers outside and making the shapes of the numbers with outdoor materials. We worked really hard! We spent the afternoon making potions with things we found in the field.
Melisa: I liked making the potion from the grass. I made mine with Joshua.
Ethan: I liked it when I was grabbing lots of flowers for my potion with Brodie.
Abby: I made number 7 in the nature garden. I used leaves.
Riley: I liked carving the pumpkins with Kaci. We made the witch!
Lola: I made the witch pumpkin too!
Darla: I carved mine with Mrs Graham. We used Ethan’s mask.
Primary 1b
We had lots of fun celebrating Halloween and taking part in lots of spooky activities! Eryithsyai, Tiffany and Flynn thoroughly enjoyed decorating and carving the pumpkins – we had some super scary designs!
Beth: “I liked building in the builder’s yard and I liked playing with my friends”
Charlotte: “I liked getting the monster points – I’ve got 43.”
Willow: “I liked playing in the playground with my friends.”
Mya: “I liked making potions.”
Ellie: “I liked playing with the microphone.”
Ziya: “I liked doing the science things.”
Angus: “It was Halloween.”
Brodie: “Making at the craft table with Eddie.”
Beth: “We were outside all day.”
We celebrated Outdoor Classroom Day on Thursday and spent the whole day outside in the glorious sunshine. We played hide and seek and Joshua was our top hider as nobody could find him! Flynn told us he was “camouflage” as his coat was the same colour as the bush! We did our number work outside; collecting a certain number of objects and then making that number with natural objects we found. We then wrote all of the numbers to 10 in chalk – we aimed to fill the football pitch on the playground with numbers. Taking inspiration from our story of the week ‘Room on the Broom’, we all turned into witches and wizards in the afternoon and made our very own potions. The adults had to watch out as some of the potions turned you into a frog!
Primary 3
To kick off our Castles topic we visited Threave Castle on Monday with Mr Tyson and Mrs Hart. We learned lots of interesting facts and it was fantastic to explore the castle right on our doorsteps.
“The dungeon was very dark” – Kahlen
“The drawbridge can move up and down”
“There was a moat to keep the enemies out of the castle” – Cara
We have been learning about the different parts of a castle and their purpose.
On Wednesday, we held our Spooky Bake Sale. We raised a grand total of £281.65. This will be donated to the Janice Jamieson Memorial Foundation and to Unicef.
Thank you very much to the Parent Helpers for both days and to everyone who donated baked goods. We also had some very kind donations from the Co-op and Tesco.
We’ve had such a busy, exciting week! Keep an eye out for our bake sale in The Galloway News over the coming weeks!
Primary 3/4
hat a great first week back we have had! On Tuesday we went to Threave Castle. We had a great time exploring our fantastic castle!
“Mr Tyson told us a scary story in the castle!” – Caitlin
“We had to go on a boat to get across to the castle”. – Tika
“When we got to the castle we had to be detectives to find the different rooms” – Connor
“We saw a body in the dungeon!” – Alex
“We were great history detectives” – Fern
“We went into the dry moat and tried to run out. It was quite tricky to hold our swords and shields”. – Rhys
“The castle had thick walls for protection” – Cameron
This week we have also made our own Picasso monsters! We learned about Picasso and then created our own picture in the style of Picasso with our own spooky twist!
“Picasso was a really famous artist” – Leigha
“It was lots of fun creating our own picture” – Ruby
“Some of his paintings were abstract” – Nikola
“He made his paintings blue when one of his friends died. He chose blue because he wasr really sad” – Kaidi
“When he fell in love he felt happy so he started to use rose colours in his paintings” – Lucca
Reminders
Homework bags should be brought to school every day.
Our PE days are Tuesday and Wednesday. Please bring appropriate kit – these can beleft in school.
Primary 4
This week our learning has been Halloween themed! We started by exploring the history and traditions of Halloween. In ICT we used 2Simple to create spooky animations. Some children animated exploding pumpkins or witches flying across the sky on their broomsticks. In math we have been detectives, problem solving ‘The Halloween Mystery at Harriet’s House’ in pairs. We began our hockey block in P.E and will be working on preforming an increased range of skills and techniques this term. In language we wrote a recipe for the perfect friendship, this is linked to our emotions topic in health and wellbeing.
Wider Achievement
Kacie and Lexi are dancing in a ballet show this Sunday.
Holly auditioned for Britain’s Got Talent during the holidays.
Reminders
Sumdog’s Wee Sleep Out Contest starts today at 8am and finishes at 8pm on November 8th. P4 can play at any time. For their score to count, the Wee Sleep Out Contest activity must be showing in the green panel on the left of the screen when you click to start each game.
Primary 4/5
This week we were preparing for our Spooky Bake Sale. We had a fantastic morning and raised £281.65 for our charities. We all worked really hard and are very proud of ourselves. We would like to thank all the parent helpers on the day and also to those people who donated baking for the event.
We are continuing to practise our song for our Christmas CD. We have started talking about the different roles that are required to run a successful business. This week we have been learning about advertising and marketing. We have created our own posters to advertise the CD and have come up with a good name…watch this space.
Our class were joint winners of the Walk to School week. We have been awarded the Golden Trainer Trophy.
Wider Achievement
Maxi and Alexander were joint winners of the pumpkin carving competition at Cubs.
Primary 5
We have been revising place value this week through the game ‘Nice or Nasty’ where children worked in pairs to see who would win by using a combination of strategy and place value knowledge. We have also been doing SAMSON maths working on addition and subtraction.
We are continuing to work on adjectives and on Wednesday we were thinking about what we would put in a Halloween potion. Our topic this term is ‘Local and National Government’. We were contacted by agents from MSB (Make Scotland Better) – a secret organisation who asked P5 personally to let them know the advantages of living in Castle Douglas and what could be improved. On Friday morning we received another task which was to create questionnaires on the computer for people of Castle Douglas to ask how they would improve their local area.
Reminders
P5 should all have come home with a letter about a class trip to Dumfries Museum. Please return the permission slip by Monday 12th November.
Primary 5/6
“I’ve learned a lot more of the ‘book detectives’ roles this week and feel confident in doing my reading tasks independently next week” Rosie
“I learned about place value with Mrs Carlyle” Keira
“I am able to lay out my sums better” Kacey
“I enjoy working with larger numbers” Jazmin
“I enjoyed learning how to dribble in hockey” Lotti
“I mastered ‘Indian dribbling’ with a hockey stick in Gym” Oscar
“I like that we now have new seats and can work with different people” Kyla
“I really liked paining a haunted house for Halloween” Cutis.
“We learned vocabulary like ‘even chance’, ‘likely’ and ‘impossible’ during our probability maths lesson” Amy
Wider Achievement
Rosie won first place in a horse-riding competition.
Lexi was commended for her fighting spirit at her local boxing club.
Myley received a trophy for mastering her “front walk over” in gymnastics.
Lotti successfully jumped onto the high bar at her gymnastics class.
Primary 6
This week, Primary Six created Candy Skull inspired artwork! Take a look at our pictures- they look SPOOKtacular.
In Maths, we began to learn more about shape. We went outside for a shape hunt and found many 2D and 3D shapes in the playground and nature garden. We began to use the terms, “faces, edges and vertices”.
On Thursday, we were very lucky to have Jamie visit us from the Fire Service and he spoke to us all about fire safety on Bonfire Night
Reminders
Please bring homework folders to school every day.
PE kit on Tuesday, Thursday and Fridays please.
Primary 6/7
This week in P6/7 we have been looking at rounding and estimation in maths this week. We have been rounding numbers to the nearest 10,100,100 and up to 3 decimal places!
We had a fire safety talk this week.
Brooke learned to always wear gloves when using sparklers.
Holly learned never to wear cotton gloves when using a sparkler but instead, to wear gardening gloves.
Abbey learned to always put your used sparklers in a bucket of water or sand.
Abbie learned to always stay well back from fireworks as they can be unpredictable.
Jaimie-Leigh says that you have to be 18 or over to buy fireworks and only adults should use them.
Some of us are going to attend organised displays over the weekend.
We have also written Halloween stories this week and they have been uploaded to the school website for you all to read!
Primary 7
Mia – We have been preparing for our assembly which is next week. I am reading my poem.
Katherine – This week began Magix Music Maker with John. It was really fun and quite tricky.
Tiana – We have been doing a lot of poppy art. We drew pictures of poppies with lines and used hot and cold colours.
Jayden – I learned that the Battle of the Somme was the bloodiest battle. On the first day 20,000 British soldiers were killed or wounded.
Bob – On Thursday a fireman came to talk to us about Bonfire night and how to be safe with sparklers.
Isla l – I went to the war memorial and I took pictures of the names.
Jayden – On Wednesday Katherine and I went around the classes selling poppies.
Ollie – We made invites for our assembly. We did it in the style of propaganda which a picture of Lord Kitchener.
Sam – My Dad came to do research on Thursday night as part of our topic.
Wider Achievement
Ryan K – I got a rosette for trying my best at horseriding. I can start, ride and stop.
Reminders
Assembly – 07/11//18 9.15am.
Cinema – 08/11/18 during school time.
