Primary 4-5 Newsletter autumn 22 Primary 4-5 Newsletter autumn 22

Primary 5 Newsletter – Term One

Primary 6 were taking part in hockey lessons, delivered by Dumfries Hockey Club. We had fun and are looking forward to next weeks lesson.

What a busy first few weeks we have had.  We have been trying hard to establish and follow our new classroom rules.

We have also spent a bit of time learning about each others differences and how to treat each other with kindness and respect.  We used the book ‘Only One You’ to help with this.

We designed our own ‘individual’ fish.  Aren’t they all different?

We also showed our differences and individuality when we made our self portraits…what do you think?

Our new class pupil councillor was also elected.  Well done to Carly! And also to Nathan who was voted to be our Vice.  We know you will both do a fantastic job.

Primary 7 have made a great start to this school year.

Everyone is looking very smart and we are all eager to learn!

Leah and Reuben were voted in as our Pupil Councillor and Vice Pupil Councillor for this year.

We showed the P1s how to use the playground toys properly.  We played games with little groups of children and gave them ideas on what they could do. We developed our creativity, leadership and team-player skills. We felt good doing this. -Isla

During the open afternoon there were several different stations for people to complete different challenges. Some of the activities were building a bridge using cardboard and Make Do materials, transferring water along a straw pipeline, programming the Botleys and coding the MicroBits. We developed our designing and creativity skills. It was a really fun afternoon. -Arran

During the first couple of weeks we got to know one another. We complimented each other’s strengths and got to find out al about each other.  We set targets for the year ahead and at home we created a poster to share important information about ourselves. We developed our creativity, caring and communication skills. The first couple of weeks helped us feel comfortable in class.- Shubhra.

We have been completing a variety of different pieces of writing. We created a Recipe for the Perfect Summer which consisted of everything we did during the summer. We also wrote about what our Perfect Classroom would be like and we researched the life of Queen Elizabeth II in order to write a biography.  We developed our creativity, research and writing skills. The writing has been fun. – Grace

In P.E we have been learning different sports. We have learnt to play disc golf, chicken hero and football. Everyone shared their thoughts and ideas on the new games. We developed our teamwork and leadership skills. It was really fun learning new games. -Kallan

In skills academy we learnt all about the different types of engineering. We had to design our own way of transporting an egg down a zip line using only certain materials.  We had to test our design and then adjust our design. We developed our team player and creativity skills. It was a good experience. – Leah

Primary 6 Newsletter term 1 2022-2023

On Tuesday 6th September, we had our open day with a theme of Creativity. We welcomed adults in to our classroom to help complete KAPLA challenges, role playing as a news reporter with our own scripts and coding on Scratch.

On Tuesday 13th September in the afternoon, we created a piece of art relating to our IDL topic of Natural Disasters. We traced our own volcano then used oil pastels to create colour and tones. We also discussed perspective through this piece of art.

P4 Newsletter – Term 1

At the start of Primary 4 we made a collaborative poster to decorate our class.  Mrs Boyd and Mrs Little wanted to get to know us better so we made some ‘All About Me’ bunting and wrote down what we can’t imagine our lives without.  We put all these things together in a display.  We drew our own self portraits and wrote about what we are looking forward to in Primary 4.

In Literacy we started reading a class novel called ‘Storm’ and we have been developing our comprehension skills using the novel.  Mrs Little has been focussing on descriptive writing and we have written descriptions of Roald Dahl’s ‘The Twits’, which we have already finished reading together, and the Roly-Poly bird from the same book.  We have also been learning new spelling words and practising these in lots of different ways.

In Numeracy we focussed on place value and in Maths we have been learning about grid references and we created our own islands.

In Skills Academy Mrs Boyd has helped us learn about algorithms and in Digital Literacy we have been learning about Teams and emails.

Our IDL topic is Geography and we have learned about the continents and are going to focus more on the UK and Scotland by using atlases and maps.

In Health and Wellbeing we have been identifying emotions and developing our drama skills to act our scenarios to show different emotions.

We have been very busy!

Primary 6 have been researching Queen Elizabeth II. They then created a newspaper article sharing the news of Her Majesty’s death and sharing details of her life.

They had to write the report in chronological order.

Read all about it!