Our Weekly School News – Sharing our learning with the school Community
Please have a look at what some of our Classes have been up to this week.
Global Gang News – E**** and L**** took the groceries down to the foodbank on Tuesday. Thank you so much to everyone who made a donation. We took a huge amount of groceries down that will help to support people in our community.
Shoebox Appeal – a reminder that any items for the Rotary Appeal will be gratefully received by the Pupil Councillors who will be filling the boxes this week. Donations should be handed in by Wednesday 14th please.
Primary 1a
Class Activities and Pupil Comments
This week we have been reading ‘The Smartest Giant in Town’. We have written some lovely letters to the Giant to introduce ourselves. We’re getting very good at writing our names and forming our letters! We’ve also been measuring using non-standard units. We enjoyed going to the hall to use different objects to measure our heights.
Melisa: I like the Smartest Giant story.
We have also been creating our Post Office. We have been paper macheing our big box (thanks to Ethan!) to make our post box. Thanks to Abby and Finlay for the pictures.
Ethan: We got all glue-y doing the paper mache.
As always, we’ve been busy working on our sounds and numbers.
Hannah: I like doing hard work. I’ve liked learning my letters.
Skye: I like doing my numbers and my sounds.
Reminders
Important letters have gone home today in bags. Please make sure you send in replies next week. Thank you!
Primary 2
Class Activities and Pupil Comments
We went to the Fullarton Theatre on Wednesday to watch the film “The Giant Pear”. We all enjoyed it. Frankie liked when the cat found the bottle in the sea. It had a message in it from JB. Eva liked it when the cat fished out the boot. Morgan said “I liked it when the pear grew so big it smashed the house.”
In PE we were learning to throw and catch the ball. Mason was very good at throwing the ball to Taleah.
Noah and Luci know all their key words – very well done.
Primary 2/3
Class Activities and Pupil Comments
We wrote potions last week in language work.
Abbie ‘My potion was to make people better.’
Cooper ‘Mine was to make a fish dinosaur.’
Our new topic is learning all about the weather.
In PE we are working on ball skills – throwing, catching and aiming.
In maths we are working on addition and subtraction.
We went to the cinema to see The Giant Pear which we all enjoyed.
George – In Accelerated Reader I found out why Darth Vadar has a mask and a suit.
Reminders
Please can all children bring a PE kit to school on a Monday and leave it at school for the week. We have PE on Monday morning and again later in the week. Thank you.
Primary 3
Class Activities and Pupil Comments
This week P3 have been learning all about a Knights role in the Castle and have been learning all about each part of a Knights armour. We have continued to look at non-fiction texts and we have been using the Contents and Index page to search for information.
On Wednesday, we went to The Fullarton Theatre to watch The Giant Pear as part of the Into Film Festival. Thank you to our parent helpers.
“The character was stranded on a mysterious island” – Eli
“The Giant Pear turned into a house” – Ewan
Take a look! There is a super spread and photographs in The Galloway News this week of our Spooky Bake Sale.
Wider Achievement
Struan competed in the D&G Schools swimming competition on Wednesday. He came second in freestyle and back stroke. Well done Struan!
Reminders
Please can everyone bring a PE Kit to school.
Primary 3/4
Class Activities and Pupil Comments
This week we visited The Fullarton Theatre to watch The Giant Pear.
“I really enjoyed the movie” – Lucca
We have been learning about the different parts of the castle.
“We turned our classroom into a castle!” – Alex
“We turned the windows into a portcullis and we put a drawbridge on our classroom door with chains to lower it and bring it back up” -Kaidi
“We made the castle walls. We put battlements along the top” – Tika
“We put a moat along the floor” – Fern
“We had to work as a team to be able to transform our classroom” – Emma
In maths we have been learning all about 2D and 3D shapes.
“I can name different 3D shapes now” – Cameron
“We have been naming the shapes and finding out about the different edges, faces and vertices” – Alex
We have also continued our learning on SHANARRI.
“The R stands for respected” – Caitlin
“We thought about what respect sounds like, looks like and feels like” – Fern
Wider Achievement
Emma and Ruby have moved up to level four in swimming.
Rhys went to rugby for the first time this week.
Primary 4
Class Activities and Pupil Comments
In art we created a night sky of fireworks using warm and cold coloured pastels. Inspired by the story of Guy Fawkes and bonfire night, we used chalks and blended the colours to create motion in our pictures.
During maths we have been focusing on measure and fractions. We took part in Sumdog’s ‘Wee Sleep Out’ maths contest at home and in school. P4 came 156th in the leaderboard of 872 classes from all over Scotland.
This week during RME we have been learning about the Hindu celebration, Diwali. The children created diva lanterns and Rangoli patterns. We discussed the different things Hindu’s do when celebrating Diwali and could identify similarities to our own celebrations at Christmas.
Primary 4/5
Class Activities and Pupil Comments
This week in P4/5 we have been busy recording our song for ‘The Christmas Chorus’ our class CD. Maxi came up with this name, we all thought it was a really good idea. We have finished our posters to advertise it and they will go up around the school next week. Keep a look out. You can pre order your CDs now from P4/5 (order forms are with class teachers). We also handed out a ‘Design our CD’ Competition and had lots of entries. We have now judged the winning designs and they will announced on our CD launch day on Wednesday 5th of December.
Murray – We recorded our class song for the Christmas CD.
Jesse-Leigh – We had to change our song last minute but we worked really hard to get it recorded.
Callum – The CD design entries were very colourful.
Elle – We had lots of good entries and it was really difficult to judge the winners.
In PE we started a block of dance. This week we listened to Latin American music and followed some fun Zumba routines.
Freya – The Zumba dancing was really fun.
Maxi – I aced the dancing routines.
Lhlyaijana – It was great fun but I was exhausted afterwards.
Shea – The moves kept me on my toes.
Wider Achievement
Freya and Lhlyaijana started a dancing class this week.
Callum has learned how to play the chanter.
Primary 5
Class Activities and Pupil Comments
Primary 5 have been doing lots of learning about World War One this week. We watched an assembly by P7 about their topic of WW1. We read part of ‘Poppy Field’ by Michael Morpurgo and re-enacted some key scenes in drama using freeze-frames. We discussed how to use body language and express emotions without using words. In writing we were looking at use of imagery in the poem ‘In Flanders Field’ by John McCrae. We started by brainstorming in our groups the images that we think of ourselves when we think of ‘war’ or ‘soldier’. We then looked more closely at the imagery used in McCrae’s poem. We also discussed what the poppy means to us and why people sometimes wear different colours of poppy.
In maths we have been continuing with addition and subtraction with Miss Mackintosh and chance and uncertainty with Mrs Starkey. We have also created fantastic World War One art with Mrs Starkey using blending and silhouettes.
Wider Achievement
E***and I*** were 1st and 2nd in their age group at the Stewartry karate competition on Sunday!
Please have permission slips handed in for the trip to Dumfries Museum by Monday 12th November. Our trip is the same day as come as you please for Children in Need. Therefore, may I ask children to please bring their outfit in their school bags to change into after we have been to the museum in the morning wearing school uniform.
Primary 5/6
Class Activities and Pupil Comments
What a week! We became more confident hockey players by mastering our passing, dribbling and shooting. Mr Coulthard can really see the hard work paying off!
We deepened our knowledge of probability by discussing the terms “impossible”, “certain” and “even chance”. However, Mr Coulthard wasn’t impressed that the majority of the class thought his chance of marrying a movie star was “impossible”.
We also made fantastic fireworks pictures with the use of crayons, paint and washing up liquid. The results were amazing!
Subtraction was the theme of the week in maths and we mastered “borrowing” from the tens and hundreds columns. Again, hard work paid off and the class took the challenge in their stride!
We have also enjoyed reading “The Twits” as a class at the end of each day. Particularly, the gross parts like the ghastly specimens found in Mr. Twit’s Beard or Mrs. Twit’s warty feet!
Primary 6
Class Activities and Pupil Comments
This week, Primary Six have continued to look at 2D and 3D shape. “We have been learning about the edges, faces and vertices of shapes.” (Molly). “Our group had to find suitable shapes for tiling.” (Carlie). “We were looking at different triangles- isosceles, scalene, right angle and equilateral.” (Jake)
“In Art, we focused on reflection and we created a firework display using wax crayon and water colour.” (Rhianna) “In PE, we have been doing running and working on control and stamina.” (Jack)
We were very lucky and were able to attend the Fullarton as part of the Film Festival. We watched Small Foot.
Wider Achievement
Eilidh has been practising her Breast Stroke in swimming and is now more confident.
Teigan won a rosette for her horse riding.
Carlie completed her library book challenge.
Reminders
Class DoJo slips have been sent home for parents to connect with Mr Maxwell.
Primary 6/7
Class Activities and Pupil Comments
This week we have been learning about the work of Children in Need. Bobby ” We learned that Blush the Bear, Pudsey’s pal, was introduced in 2009″ Aillie ” Children in Need support over 2500 projects in the UK”. Holly ” Terry Wogan hosted the BBC show when it first started”.
P6/7 will hold a Children in Need fundraising day and assembly next Friday (16th Nov). Friends and family are welcome to attend the assembly. Children are asked to bring a donation for the non-uniform day.
Some of us have started using Reading Wise – an online programme which we can use at home too.
We received letters this week from our Edinburgh pen pals that we met at Kingswood!
This weekend Mya and Aillie will take part in a dancing show at the Fullarton Theatre! We wish them lots of luck.
Adam is playing a football match with Threave Rovers this weekend – good luck to him!
Primary 7
Class Activities and Pupil Comments
Ryan – We went to the cinema on Thursday to see Small Foot. It was amazing.
Sam – We wrote a film review for Small Foot. I would definitely recommend it.
Ollie – We had our assembly on Wednesday and we had lots of compliments from teachers and parents.
Rory T – I enjoyed singing our World War One song at the assembly. The parents liked it too.
Katherine – The adults came down to our classroom after our assembly and tried some of our World War One baking.
Elise – I really enjoyed taking part in the baking on Tuesday. We learned how to make Anzac biscuits and Trench cake. The Anzac biscuits tasted of coconut.
Ollie – With Mrs. Campbell we worked on co-ordinates this week and how to use them correctly. We used 4 grids because we used negative co-ordinates. It was tricky.
