Our Weekly School News – Sharing our learning with the School Community.
School News
a) Fund-raising Sponsorship Forms.
Please look out for sponsor forms coming next week. This is our main fund-raiser for the year and each class has chosen a challenge involving the number 20 e.g. completing 20 keep-fit activities in 20 minutes. All of the money raised goes to support class activities such as transport costs and we rely very much on the support and generosity of our school community. Pupils are asked only to approach people they know. The activities will take place on the week of 10th June.
b) Please do check our School App and Website for diary dates for School and Nursery events such as Sports Morning.
c) There are limited tickets available for the Drama Club’s production of Mary Poppins. Please call or pop into the School Office to book tickets. The children are working really hard and are very excited to showcase their performance.
Class News
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
On Thursday, we celebrated Outdoor Classroom Day by learning out in the sunshine. We practised writing our surnames in chalk and created our own clocks out of chalk and natural materials. We then spent the rest of the afternoon in the Nature Garden, exploring skills such as communicating, using our imaginations (we dug a swimming pool!) and creating nature crowns. We had a lovely day!
We have also been busy practising for our class assembly next week. We hope you can come along and celebrate with us!
Reminders
Come along to our class assembly on Friday, 31st May at 9:15am – we hope to see you there!
Primary 1b
We had great fun celebrating Outdoor Classroom Day. We practised writing our surnames in chalk and made clocks with chalk and natural materials.
Conall: “There’s 12 numbers on the clock.”
We spent the afternoon in the Nature Garden adventuring and making nature crowns.
Ellie: “Mine was beautiful, it had flowers on.”
Brodie has worked hard to build a pond in the Nature Garden and Brodie’s friends are helping him to maintain it.
We read a book called ‘Dear Greenpeace There’s a whale in Emily’s pond’. I wonder if we will get a whale in our pond…..!?
Charlotte says we won’t “because whales live in the ocean”. We must keep an eye out though!
The sun was shining all day – it was wonderful.
We are enjoying practising for our assembly and can’t wait for our families to come and see it.
All the children created an imaginative piece of writing based on the book ‘The Flying Bath’ by Julia Donaldson.
Joshua: The Skipping Statue.”
Willow: “The Flying House.”
Angus: “The Flying Bag.”
Well done to Tiffany, our Pupil of the Month.
Reminders
Come along to our class assembly on Friday, 31st May at 9:15am – we hope to see you there!
Primary 3
On Thursday, we participated in Outdoor Classroom Day. We enjoyed taking our learning outside and making the most of the beautiful sunny day and our school surroundings.
In Maths, we are learning to tell the time for quarter past, quarter to and five minute intervals. Take a look at the fantastic clocks that we created with natural materials.
In Literacy, we have been reading ‘The Disgusting Sandwich’ as part of our Food Glorious Food topic. We used our imagination to write about our own disgusting sandwich and included adjectives and alliteration.
In the Nature Garden, we worked collaboratively to create our sandwiches out of different materials. Would you like to have them for lunch?
Primary 3/4
Leigha – “I enjoyed playing outside in the sun yesterday. I liked to play with the sand”.
Max enjoyed playing outside in the nature garden.
Rhuben – “I liked outdoor classroom day.”
Jazmine – “Me, Tyler, Kaidi, Caitlin, Anna, Lucca and Zak and Coby played a game outside yesterday in the nature garden. Kaidi was the chef and Tyler was a guarder”.
Ruby – “I loved using the clay to make models. I made a mouse and Fern and Emma made a rabbit.”
Lydia – “I enjoyed going to the nature garden to build a den.”
Kaidi – “I played a game and I was the cook. We had to use our imaginations to create different foods in the nature garden.”
Coby – “I liked building dens in the nature garden. I built mine under the hawthorn tree which I now regret as it was a big jaggy so I had to build some shelter from the jaggy bits”.
Fern – “I enjoyed making dens. I made my den with Emma, Kacey, Ruby, Leah, Leigha and Lydia – “We used rocks and sticks”.
Anna – “On Monday I enjoyed learning about bar charts in maths”.
Devlin – “I made slime at nurture group. It was very fun!”
Nikola – “Yesterday I enjoyed playing with the sand and the water tray. I liked the pirate ship. My shorts got a bit wet but they dried in the sun!”
Wider Achievement
Caitlin did the front crawl in the deep end during swimming lessons.
Coby learned how to do butterfly stroke at swimming.
Zak was learning to hold his breath and swim underwater.
Connor and Kyle competed in a football tournament over the weekend.
Leah learned to tie her shoelaces on Saturday.
Well done to all!
Primary 4/5
What a busy week in P4/5! We have welcomed Miss Henderson to the class for the next 5 weeks. She has planned lots of exciting activities to do with us. This week we have continued our Titanic topic by researching first, second and third class areas of the ship. We then planned, designed and created shoe box cabins to represent the differences in class.
Shea – “I found it challenging finding things to use for the third class cabin. I didn’t want it to look too good!”
Callum – “We used tin foil to create a chandelier.”
Skye – “We made bunk beds using plastic and lollypop sticks.”
In maths we have started a new block, learning all about time.
Lily – “When the minute hand moves past the 6 we then say ‘to’ times. e.g. quarter to 5.”
McKenzie – “The hour hand has to be shorter than the minute hand, otherwise you would get confused.”
We have been learning how to write instructions for making a pizza.
Freya – “We have to write each step in chronological order.”
Charlotte – “We watched someone making pizza. Then we had to write a set of instructions for the video.”
In Darragh’s writing group they wrote adventure stories.
Darragh – “We made a plan to help us to write a story. My story was about a magical war.”
Reminders
Thank you to all those who have paid for our trip to Belfast. Payments are due in next week for those who have not yet done so. Thank you.
Primary 5
In numeracy we have continued our work on division and have started measurement.
We have been learning how to divide by 2, 3 and 4 digit numbers.
“I feel more confident with division now.” – Lacey
On Thursday we were learning how to measure trees in lots of different ways. “I liked the one where you had to estimate how tall the tree was based on the height of my group member.” – Ellie
“I thought that the most reliable way to measure the tree was number 5 which was using a measuring stick and standing a certain distance away from the tree because it was the closest to the number that we got for our first try.”- Shannon
“For outdoor learning we have also been outside doing our spelling words in chalk but we had to make up a sentence and whoever put their spelling words in the sentence would get more points and whoever put the full stop at the end would get a point.” – Lacey
We have continued learning about how to write instructions in writing.
“We were drafting our recipes in writing this week”. – Harrison
We have been doing pick up the pulse regularly. “I enjoy it because you can pick up your pulse and have a chat.” – Douglas
In topic we have learned about static electricity and where electricity comes from.
“We were learning how to make a model atom. We had to get a bit of card, lots of circles in it and they kept getting smaller. Every second one we had to scribble it then cut out into circles.” – Olivia
“We were making our own tv show presentations of what we have learned about electricity and where it comes from in ICT.” – Shannon
In our class novel we’ve been doing activities to speak about spreading happiness.
“Our activities have included making a ‘Brilliant Radiators’ poster and you had to choose people in your life who have been brilliant at radiating happiness and positivity.” – Lacey
“I put Shannon because she makes me laugh a lot!” – Freya
“I put my little sister Leah because when I fall over she comes over and asks if I am okay.” – Kerys
“I put Josh because me and him are really good friends and we laugh a lot.” – Finlay
“I put Finlay because he is kind and helpful and a great fortnite duo.” – Josh
“I chose Finlay because he has been my friend for almost 6 years.” – Barney
“I put Skye and Reece because they are really good friends to me and they are really kind.” – Georgia
“I picked Cody because we’ve been friends for a long time.” – Alper
“I picked Cullen because he always comes to my house and he’s a good friend.” – Jack
“I chose Harrison because I have known him for almost 7 years and he is really funny and fun to be around.” – Douglas
“I chose Alper and Kerys because they always make me laugh.” – Cody
“I chose Hanna and Erin because if I ever needed anything or they wanted something we would always be there for each other.” – Lacey
“I chose Freya and Shannon because they have been kind to me and always stick up for me.” – Holly
“I chose Freya, Holly, Niamh and my pets because they cheer me up when I’m sad, they are “kind to me and they stick up for me.” – Shannon
I chose my cat Rio because he makes me laugh and he’s crazy!” – Olivia
Wider Achievement
“In a puzzle building competition at the weekend I achieved building 750 puzzles. I got a medal.” – Sebastian
“I went on holiday to Turkey and took part in a boxing match. I won the first match but the second one I didn’t because I got kicked in the leg by my opponent. They were both about 12 and 13 years old!” – Alper
Reminders
There are very limited tickets left for the Mary Poppins shows performed by the school drama club. Children involved from our class are Erin, Reece, Anna, Yvie, Emma, Lucy and Eilidh. If you would like to find out about tickets please ask at the school office.
Primary 5/6
Please see our Twitter feed for our class news
Primary 6/7
This week we have been learning about fractions. The Triangles have been learning to find fractions of a quantity. The Rectangles and Squares have been learning to simplify equivalent factions. The Octagons have been learning about the relationship between speed, distance and time.
We learned about the Eat Well Plate and how to classify foods into different groups. This is part of our new topic, Healthy Body, Healthy Mind.
We have all been set a task to deliver a solo presentation on a subject of our choice. This is a homework task and everyone has been given an instruction sheet.
We are all working hard to meet our Accelerated Reader targets.
Reminders
P6 Operation Safety is on Tuesday.
Solo talk homework tasks should be underway. If anyone needs support or resources please do ask.
