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
Last week we enjoyed having our families join us for our Aeroplane Challenge! Thank you to everyone who came along, watched us test out our planes and helped us measure the distances!
We read ‘Bear on a Bike’ this week and enjoyed seeing all the different types of transport the bear uses to catch up to his friend, Mouse. We decided to use this to create our own stories.
Teagan: Giraffe on a skateboard!
Riley: Puppy on a tractor!
Darla: Dog on a motorbike.
In maths this week, we have been looking at telling the time on analogue clocks and have started looking at subtraction.
Skye: I liked telling the time with the clocks.
Murry: We’ve been playing with the clocks and the beebots.
We’ve also been looking at directions – forwards, backwards, left and right – and using the beebots to help us.
In PE, we’ve started practising the races for Sports Day. We love the beanbag and the egg and spoon!
Primary 1b
We read ‘Bear on a Bike’ story this week – Zach thought it was “hilarious”! Using the book for inspiration, the children created a piece of imaginative writing with an animal and a mode of transport. We had lots of fun sharing our ideas!
Flynn: “Snake on a skateboard.”
Zane: “Gorilla on a aeroplane.”
Charlotte: “Unicorn in a trolley.”
Brodie: “Lynx on a skateboard!”
Jacob: “Gorilla on a scooter.”
In Maths we have been focusing on subtraction, telling the time on analogue clocks and ordeirng numbers 1-20.
Zane: “Take away.”
Charlotte: “if you have 2p and you take away 1p, you have 1p.”
We have thoroughly enjoyed the sunshine this week and have spent as much time as we can outside! We have enjoyed cooking in the mud kitchen and playing in the water tray.
We have been practising our 3 races for sports day.
Tiffany: “running, beanbag, egg and spoon.”
We practised the races on the field, trying really hard to stay in our lanes. We are really looking forward to Sports Day.
Primary 2/3
Lily S – We have been making string prints of shells and stamping them on paper.
Alba – If you have a colour you can change it to a rainbow colour. ( we were using paints for our printing.)
Lewis – We were practising serving in tennis.
Alexander – and volleys
Zoe – We made a list of disgusting sandwiches to feed to the seagulls. I put in extra stinky cheese!
Cooper – I put in rotten custard.
Gregor – I put in 2 scoops of mud.
Zane – We have been learning about dividing and multiplying.
Zoe – The rectangles have started to do multiplication, now we can do sets of and do it with the times sign.
Lewis – At Mrs Teale we learned another song working on the chime bars and glockenspeils.
Abbie – We did a new song Big boat, Small boat, Any kind at all boat.
Wider Achievement
Eamon won a trophy and a medal at a tennis tournament.
Primary 3
Here are our favourite activities from our week at school;
Ferne – ‘I liked making my own farm. I have a stable, pigs and sheep on mine. I have a greenhouse full of cherry tomatoes’.
Anya – ‘I was making different times on the big clock’.
Abi –‘We were doing circuits in PE and I liked playing rounders. We were helping our teammates.’
Eli L – ‘I have been learning the 5 times table!’
Lewis ‘I was dividing – I am good at it now’.
Wider Achievement
Ewan received a certificate for his overnight stay at Beaver Camp – well done!
Ewan enjoyed taking part in all of the different activities, particularly making a telescope!
Primary 3/4
Zak – “I learned how to do my times tables in lots of different ways”
Kaidi – “I enjoyed playing in our new outdoor area.”
Connor – “I enjoyed learning about foods from different countries. Pizza is famous for coming from Italy”
Cameron – “I learned how to count in 2s and 10s”
Cailtin – “I enjoyed learning about coding on the computer. We had to give our character instructions to follow”
Anna – “I learned about coding”
Fern – “I enjoyed doing written times tables. I found it hard at first but I used my think board and I found it a lot easier.”
Jazmine – “I am happy this week because I filled my Accelerated Reading target”
Wider Achievement
Kaidi has finished a big book with 67 chapters.
Ruby and Emma have moved up in swimming.
Well done to all!
Primary 4
In topic we are learning about circulation and pulse rate. We felt our pulse at rest and after exercise. Then we made a poster showing activities that affect your heart rate. Finally, we went outside and acted out circulation in a team.
“We passed a beanbag from the veins to the heart and then to the lungs to get oxygen, we then sent it to the body” Kianna.
“We threw and caught the beanbag around in a circle and to make it tricky we mixed ourselves up. We had to remember each step of circulation” Becky.
We linked ICT with our maths topic time and created a calendar on glow. We had to log into Glow and open our calendar on one drive. We then added our important dates like birthdays. We had to search online for dates we didn’t know and add them to the calendar as well.
“I added when my papa visited and the days when I was staying at my nanas house. I searched for Mother’s Day online and added this too” Callum.
Wider Achievement
Ben W played football in Stranraer, he plays for Threave Rovers.
Holly won a ribbon coming 5th at gymnastics in Dundonald.
Leo was playing rugby at Moffat.
Isla McF took part in tennis competition in Kirkcudbright and came 2nd.
Primary 4/5
This week we have been learning about different passenger groups on the Titantic . Everybody enjoyed sketching the Titanic and colouring it in with pastels. In Maths we have been multiplying and dividing.
Wider Achievement
Charlotte finished her first piano book.
Callum, Shea, Hugo and Maxi all learned how to light a camp fire at cubs.
Primary 5
Erin “We were learning how to do short division.”
Barney “This is also known as the bus stop method – beep beep!”
Olivia “We learned how electricity is powered.”
Lacey “You measure electricity in volts.”
Holly “We have been learning how to use instructions.”
Yvie “I was doing synonyms and antonyms in grammar.”
Kerys “A synonym is a similar word to the original e.g. hot, warm.”
Anna “An antonym is the opposite meaning of the original word.”
Jack “We played rob the nest in netball. We had to catch the other group bean bags and the ones in the middle.”
Yvie “In maths I can divide a three digit number by a single digit.”
Lacey “I can divide a three digit number with a remainder.”
Anna “I can now divide by a four digit number.”
Wider Achievement
Cody “I can do a bridge in gymnastics.”
Anna “I can do a walk over.”
Eilidh “I know my karate grading off by heart.”
Erin “I landed my handspring.”
Holly “I am moving up swim club in swimming.”
Olivia “I can do a stag in gymnastics – it’s a handstand but your legs are bent.”
Primary 5/6
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Primary 6
Maths
We have continued to work on money this week. Some groups have been learning about credit/debit cards and APR whilst other groups have been working on total cost and trying to find the best buy! We have continued to work on our Samson Maths this week and we are getting some great scores.
“I enjoyed the challenge of maths this week” – Rhianna.
“I have enjoyed Samson this week” – Tommy.
Art
We have been doing art with Miss Starkey this week. She has been teaching us different tricks and techniques we can use when we draw self-portraits. We have not completed these yet so will do more shading work to complete them next week.
“I enjoyed art with Miss Starkey” – Eilidh
“I enjoyed drawing our face portraits” – Tommy
Music
In music we have continued to practise the tin whistle. I have included some photos of us whilst we were playing ‘chilled’. We have been trying to learn ‘bingo’ too but will spend some more time on it next week. Eilidh, Carlie, Lexi, Catrina, Cameron and Lacey are really enjoying tin whistle.
Topic
We have been using an atlas to find the capital city of different European countries. We also completed our group presentations this week and all the children did very well! We have got a homework task regarding our topic.
“I enjoying doing my presentation” – Logan
PE
We have continued to work on our lacrosse throwing and catching skills. We are getting better with every practice. We have also started to play full games and the third team are watching and evaluating their peer’s performance.
“I have enjoyed lacrosse this week” – Tyler
Wider Achievement
“I am participating in the end of season rugby at the weekend” – Fraser
“I danced at M&Co during the week” – Mylie
Reminders
-Operation safety letters need to be signed and returned
-Targets were sent home this week
-PE has moved from a Thursday to a Monday meaning kit is required on Monday, Tuesday and Friday.
-Topic homework has been sent home and is due back on Friday 31st May
Primary 6/7
Mya “Today in maths we have been learning about speed, distance and time.”
Heidi “Distance=Speed multiplied by Time.”
Jamie-Leigh “The P6s delivered presentations to the P7s about rationing. They made these when we were at CDHS last week.”
Adam “Bobby and I played in the Paul Jones last night. We won 3 games and drew 1.”
Abbie “ We worked with Mrs Carlyle and learned about the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian.”
Cormac “ His artwork is very abstract.”
Noah O “ He was the first person to make completely abstract art.”
Brooke “His painting Broadway Boogie Woogie was based on a dance.”
Wider Achievement
Libby cantered on her new horse this week.
Brooke entered a show jumping and cross country competition.
Adam and Bobby played in the school football team.
Noah has a new hamster.
Primary 7
This week 24 pupils went to a Watersports session at Carlingwark:
Kayaking was really hard but near the end I picked it up. – Sophie.
I really enjoyed sailing and I might now go with my family to Lochmaben to try it out again. – Morven
We ordered our P7 Leavers’ hoodies on Thursday:
I can’t wait to get my hoodie, I’m not going to let my mum wear it! – Rory L.
There was a big selection of colours and I’ve chosen sapphire blue. – Bob.
We had our last rugby session with John too:
We played a game called Chicken Run and we got to level 5. We had to work on running forwards and passing backwards. – Katherine.
Some of the children completed an engineering challenge: We made straw bridges. It had to span 15cm and had to be strong enough to hold 50 pairs of scissors. In the end our bridge held 2.5kgs! – Ryan K.
Some of the pupils delivered solo talks this week as well:
I talked about dancing, I also demonstrated tap dancing to the class. – Mia.
I talked about volcanoes. My favourite is Mount Teide in Tenerife. – Daniel P.
My solo talk was on Lego. When my name was called out I felt nervous but once id done it I felt good! – Ryan S.
Some of the other talk subjects we had this week were; Showing Dairy Cattle, Queen (the band), Titanic, Fortnite, Art, Gymnastics, Luke Shaw and Editing. We can’t wait to hear the rest on Monday!
Well done to Rory L, Daniel P, Andrew D and Neave who were the Class Dojo winners this week.
Wider Achievement
A great big well done to the pupils involved in the Paul Jones Football tournament. This week they played their first set of matches in Kirkcudbright. They did extremely well, winning three games and drawing one. Their next round is in Dalry next week. Good Luck!
