Our Weekly School News – Sharing our learning with the School Community.
We try our very best to upload a weekly post for each class but this is sometimes not always possible. Please have a read and a chat about what some of our classes have been up to this week.
Primary 1a
What a wonderful week we have had! This week we have welcomed Miss Bryden into our classroom and we are loving having her with us!
On Friday we went on a ‘wellie walk’ with P1b and some parent helpers.The weather was fantastic and we had a great time playing in the park and walking around Castle Douglas. Thank you to all the helpers who came along!
Murry: I liked when we had a play and our snack at the bottom park.
Melisa: I spotted my house!
Abby: I saw my Grandpa walking my dog.
In class we read ‘A Squash and a Squeeze’ by Julia Donaldson. We have been working on our language skills – finding the rhyming words in the story, sequencing the events, thinking about how things in the story related to us and making our own pages of the book.
Ayla: I liked turning into Julia Donaldson. I drawed a panda eating the table!
Miley: I drawed a cat putting holes in the rug.
Finlay: I drawed a dog eating the radiators.
Murry: My bull was eating the table leg!
Primary 1b
Mya: “I liked playing with Beth and Tiffany, playing doggies with Conall”
Elliot: “I liked playing with everybody”
Eddie: ”making stuff with cardboard”
Kai: “me, William and Elliot, Flynn and Joshua like playing Avengers”
Joshua: “learning about Scottish”
William “we made a Scotland flag”
Charlotte: “we read Angela Sprockets Pocket – she has lots of pockets”
This week we have welcomed Mr Rogerson into our class. We are really enjoying getting to know him.
We have completed lots of work around Julia Donaldson’s book ‘A Squash and a Squeeze’.
Beth: “Julia Donaldson is Scottish”.
We thought about rhyming words – Flynn “coat and goat”, Eddie, “pen and hen”. We also created our very own page for the book, thinking about a new animal that might be invited to the house. We had sheep, dogs and unicorns.
We played lots of fun new games in PE. We thought about moving in different directions during the traffic light game and used different pieces of small equipment in various ways; bean bags, hoops, balls, cones and quoits. We had a great time!
We are enjoying our sessions in the computer suite; logging on and using the 2simple software.
Reminders
*If you would like a copy of the Nip Nebs book, please send the money in by Tuesday 12th February.
Primary 3 & P3/4
This week on our outdoor learning session to the Doach woods we were learning all about animal habitats. The children worked in teams to identify different animal homes within the woods and took pictures of what they found. We found lots of mouse tunnels, birds’ nests, rabbit warrens, woodpecker hole’s and tree hollows. We had a team challenge to build a winter home for the animals to sleep in. We made our shelters from leaves, sticks and other natural things we found in the woods. On our way back to the bus we saw a fox!
Harrie “My group found a bat roost up in a tree”
Kahlen “Me and Cara found an elephant made from a tree and moss it was really cool. We found spider webs underneath a fallen tree.”
Nicole “We saw a real fox in the woods, and it had a white tail. It was running up the forest through the trees.”
Noah “We lifted dead wood and found a rabbit hole and white insects.”
Caleb “I learned that woodpeckers live in small holes in the trees and I really liked making the animal homes.”
Milly “I liked climbing and finding homes that animals could have lived in. It was fun going off the path”
Connor – “When me, Ruby, Emma, Lydia, Fern and Max were exploring we were finding clues to tell us what animals live in the woods.”
Kaidi – “We built dens in the woods. It was so much because all our dens were different but they were all really good.”
Kyle – “We used good listening and teamworking skills to build a good den”
Lucca – “Me, Jake, Rhys, Kyle and Coby found some deer poo so we know that deer live in Doach Wood”
Emma – “We found a rabbit hole. They were everywhere. I even tripped over one”
Coby – “Our group found a spider web”
Nikola – “We found a birds nest up in the tree”
Fern – “We found a mouse hole”
Jake – “We found a spot in the forest where we think a deer lying”
Thank you very much for all the parent helpers we have had over the past few weeks on our sessions to the woods.
In I.C.T we were using Google as our search engine to research facts about our chosen animal for our project. We used our note taking skills to record our information.
Reminders
Doach woods Tuesday 12th February –please come dressed in warm clothes
Animal Project due 15.2.19
Primary 4
We have created battle banners in our table teams. The Vikings, Spears, Swords, Longboats and Runes each designed a banner that will be attached to a pole so that it can be flown like a flag. We had to work as a team to come up with ideas and plan the layout. We drew pictures that will scare off any opponents!
In music we began rehearsing songs for our spring show. We have started learning the Easter-Egg Boogie and I Can Sing a Rainbow which we will sing in French.
We have been writing about our swimming lessons at the pool, focusing on writing a clear beginning, middle and end. We have also started preparing for our next piece of writing, a newspaper report, by identifying all of the key features such as a headline.
Miss Sarahs enjoyed meeting all of the P4 families at Parents Evening this week and was very pleased to share all of P4’s achievements so far. Well done!
Reminders
P.E kits are needed every Wednesday and Thursday this term.
Primary 4/5
Jesse-Leigh – In maths we have been learning about how much things cost.
Lhlyaijana – We have been learning about the different ways you can pay for something. You can use a credit card to borrow money but you have to pay it back.
Brooke – I now know the difference between a debit card and a credit card.
Lily – I now know how gift vouchers work.
McKenzie – You can sometimes pay using contactless. You can swipe your card on a machine for things that are less than £30.
Elle – In writing setting this week, we have been learning about the features of a newspaper report.
Freya – The writing in newspapers can sometimes be called articles.
Brooke – The title of an article is called the headline.
Skye – The headline should be in big, bold letters to attract the reader.
Callum – The writing is in columns so it easier to read.
Hugo – The headlines grab our attention and tells us what the news is about.
Wider Achievement
Oliver learned how to serve the ball in a tennis match.
Reminders
Could all pupils please remember to bring in their full PE kit each week. PE days are on a Tuesday and a Thursday. Children cannot participate in PE without the appropriate clothing.
Primary 5
We have been learning our two songs for our assembly this week and discussed what we know already about Mary Queen of Scots and what we’d like to learn about her.
“She got executed.” – Finlay
“She lived in France for a long time.” – Niamh
“She was related to more than one person called James.” – Josh
“She was related to Henry VIII” – Lucy
“James (Mary’s son) was King for the Gunpowder Plot.” – Eilidh
“She had four husbands.” – Georgia
“She was sent over on a boat to France for safety.” – Lacey
“She had three husbands.” – Isla
“When Mary came back to Scotland she only spoke a little Scottish because she mostly spoke French.” – Erin
“She had a son called James that had a son called Charles and then Charles had a son called Charles.” – Yvie
We have also been working on multiples and factors as well as time in maths. In literacy we have started Big Writing this week where we were learning about features of a newspaper report.
Reminders
Please can children bring back their permission slips and money for the Edinburgh trip by the end of next week.
We have our class assembly on Friday 15th February, please can parents and guardians let us know if you are able to attend.
Primary 5/6
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Primary 6
“In PE, we played bench ball and had a tournament.” (Molly)
“We learnt about a Solar and Lunar Eclipse. The way to remember a Solar Eclipse is SME and SEM for a Lunar Eclipse.” (Mylie & Lewis)
“We created art work and worked on shading and we had to think about the direction of the sun light.” (Michalina & Molly)
“We took part in Global Play Day today.” (Tommy)
“We created a rocket out of cardboard during Play Day.” (Abi, Tyler, Eilidh, Michalina and Teigan)
Primary 6/7
This week we visited CDHS for the Day of Dance. We had great fun revisiting all the Scottish dances that we learned before Christmas.
We have had lots of replies to our Job Fair. So far we have coastguards, doctors, farmers, joiners and police officers coming to visit us to name but a few! If you have a job that you think we would be interested in learning about please get in touch!
In maths this week we have been learning about measurement. We calculated how far on average we travelled if we walked 5 steps. From that we used our division and multiplication skills to calculate how far we travelled on average per step then then per 10,20,30,40 and 50 steps! We will go on to investigate weight, volume and capacity soon.
We have been working as newspaper reporters this week too. We worked in pairs to research a natural disaster of our choice and are writing newspaper articles reporting on the event.
Reminders
Cream o’ Galloway trip – Monday 11th Feb. Warm outdoor clothes (that can get dirty!) would be best and a pair of trainers. Waterproof jacket and a packed lunch also required.
Job Fair – Wednesday 27th Feb.
Please encourage pupils to take their Accelerated Reader books home and to complete reading homework.
Primary 7
We had a Day of Dance at the High School on Thursday. We did lots of dances and there were lots of other schools there – Hannah.
We were worried we had forgotten the dances we learned but we surprised ourselves and remembered them. – Mia.
I helped put face paint on people for the Day of Dance. I drew flags and tartan. -Chloe.
I am proud of myself because I moved up a group in spelling. – Ollie
I am proud of myself for getting an Advanced Reader certificate for Accelerated Reading. – Isla A
I won the poem on Friday (last week). I practised hard! – Sami
We had Young Leaders from the High School again this week for Rugby. They played games with us and some of them were at the dancing too. – Charley.
In maths we have been doing angles and we are really accurate at drawing them now. – Jayden.
In maths we had to identify angles in a straight line. – Neave.
I am proud of my mental maths because I got 5 dojo points for improving my score – Ryan.
I was very pleased with what Mrs Milligan said at Parents Evening. I have been well behaved and hard working. – Sam.
Reminders
Cream o’ Galloway trip – Monday 11th Feb.
Job Fair – Wednesday 27th Feb.
