We have been creating our own place value games and writing the game rules. We used bottle tops to represent ones, tens, hundreds and thousands.

Thank you to everyone who sent their bottle tops in to class! 😊

One of the things we have been learning about in maths is data handling. We have each been recording how pupils travel to school over one school week, using tally marks in a daily survey. Then, during our ICT lesson,  we have transferred all this data independently onto a bar chart, labelling the X and Y axis.

We have talked about the importance of collecting and recording accurate data and its many uses – especially in today’s news when we can regularly see coronavirus information shared.

During one of our class outdoor lessons we wrote down notes on changes in the season, and then used our notes to write a cinquain poem. This is a 5 lined poem with a special structure and order of when to use nouns and adjectives. It was quite tricky, but we think our poems are very good, and we can visualise an Autumn scene for every one! We hope to share our poems in our Learning Folders coming home soon!

To decorate our Autumn Poetry we were very artistic using line drawing techniques on leaf templates. We learned to use contour hatching, cross hatching, parallel and diagonal techniques, and other kinds of lines too.

P3.4 say they can’t believe it’s time for the holidays already!!! Here are just a few things we have been doing in term 1.😊

While using our outdoor classroom area we had a think how we could attract more wildlife and brighten it up.  We decided we could put some Spring bulbs in the planters to attract birds, butterflies and bees.  We chose these bulbs for their bright colours!

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Newsletter September 2020

In this section of our blog we will be showing you what we have been learning during Term 1. It has been great to be back at school and we will love sharing our learning with you.

Literacy

I have really been enjoying reading an extremely fascinating book about WW2 called Friend or Foe by Michael Morpurgo. I find it has good language and really good detail. I always get engrossed when I am reading I feel like my eyes are glued to the book. By Chloe.

Maths

In Maths we have been learning about fractions, we have been learning how to simplify and turn fractions in to mixed numbers. We always try our hardest and work at our own stage. In the morning we start off with a little mental maths carousel, every day each group is either at Number Talks, Sumdog or Mental Agility By Lily B.

I have enjoyed Maths because we have been doing mental agility, sumdog, simplifying fractions and many other things you could name. I enjoy maths mostly because it helps you think more and get stuff in to your head and it helps us prepare for future jobs. By Alicia

In Maths I really enjoyed maths week Scotland which had a Sumdog challenge for schools all over Scotland to take part in. You are given 1000 questions on a Monday and you have until the Thursday to complete them. One of the pupils at Heathhall came in 22nd place out of the whole of Scotland. I really enjoyed taking part in this because it pushed a lot of our class to their limit and I enjoyed playing the games and answering the questions. By Scarlett B.

HWB/P.E

In HWB we have been learning how to resolve conflicts. We have also been learning how to keep ourselves safe online. We have been taking part in the Couch to 5K and we have been paired with running partners and we try to encourage each other not to stop running. By Elijyah.

In PE with Mrs Sim we play fun games like Cross the Golden River and with Mrs Clanachan we do more fitness like run the daily mile. We also do team relay games to improve our speed and stamina. By Alex

I have enjoyed PE because we have been running the Couch to 5k with Mrs Clanachan it has been lots of fun and it has got lots more people to get fit/healthier. I enjoy this because we get to go outside and also because I am a good runner. By Tyler.

Other

We drew our dojo characters and pinned them up on the wall. We think they look really good and we enjoyed doing it because it was our last day with Mrs Clanachan. so we got to choose what we did and we did dojo characters and outside games. By Beth

Term 1 in Primary 4

Term one in Primary 4 has been extremely busy. We have been doing lots of writing, reading, listening and talking and maths.

We have even managed to squeeze in some art. We have been drawing pictures using perspective. We have even been looking at the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his famous rose.

We are looking forward to Term 2 and what we are going to be learning.

In p1/2 we have been learning about journeys and transport. We went on a walk around our local community and identified lots of different things we could see. We then made 3D maps with our findings. We have been using the Beebots to practise directional and positional language and are getting better with left and right. During outdoor learning we made up our own routes for our classmates to follow. We were only allowed to use forward, back, left and right. It was really tricky to try and stay like a robot!

In literacy we’ve been practising our sounds. We enjoyed doing this in orange gloop.

In Numeracy we’ve been focussing on counting on using the secret square to help us. We’ve also been subatising (learning not to count for patterns) Some of the P2s have been using 100 squares to partition numbers into tens and ones.

We’ve also been developing our sensory garden. We’ve cleared it all out and planted different herbs and colourful flowers for the spring.