If your child wears earrings, please make sure they do not wear them to school on their PE days.
Please also can children leave their PE kit in school during the week rather than taking it home with the chance of forgetting to bring it back in.
Thank you
Please remember the importance of bringing glasses to school with you if you need them.
Primary 6 and 7 got together recently to reveal the cast for our Wizard of Oz show. Many people were feeling nervous but they were delighted to get their parts.
We also began reading through the script while the other pupils discussed important activities for the show such as tech, advertising and art and design.
Summer is nearly here and we’re into our last term. The last term for our P7’s. Where has the time gone?! Here is a brief overview of our learning this term.
Literacy
We are continuing to develop all reading skills through Bug Club guided reading texts but paying attention to summarising. For writing, we are looking at responding to texts and will be conducting reviews of things we watch and read and giving personal opinions.
Numeracy
The emphasis of our numeracy this term is on algebra, number patterns and time. We will continue to use Number Talk strategies to develop mental strategies using all four processes as part of our daily routine. The class are also working on skills beyond number with Mrs MacKinnon and will be investigating measurement.
Health and Wellbeing
The PATHS focus this term is continuing to develop and use de-escalation techniques during conflicts as well as looking at transitions. Pupil of the Day will also continue.
Our PE days are now on a Tuesday and Thursday. We will be first playing cricket enhancing our throwing, catching and fielding skills. We will also be participating in athletics activities in preparation for Sports Day.
IDL
The topic this term is politics. We will be investigating how laws are made, the role of an MP and identifying the main political parties and some of their policies. We will also receive a visit from MP Alan Brown for a Q and A with the class.
RE
This term we will be aiming to complete God’s Loving Plan activities. As this subject is sensitive, please discuss these issues with your child at home.
French
Mrs MacKinnon will continue teaching French with P7. Through a range of talking, listening, reading and writing tasks, this term the focus will be on the French culture and other French speaking countries.
Summer Show
Preparations are already underway for the upper school show. Pupils will be participating in lots of drama, art, technology and enterprising activities to make the show a success. Keep your eyes peeled for further updates of our show
Mr Bertoncini
As you are aware our School Improvement Plan forms the basis of our school developments. It is essential that parents and carers are fully involved in the creation of this plan.
Please take some time to put forward your views on the progress we have made with our plan for this year and share your views on what should happen next. This survey will remain open until Friday 12th May.
Please complete the survey below:
You will also require to review a copy of our Family School Improvement Plan.
Today we announced the cast for our production of the Wizard of Oz. Congratulations to everyone who got a part! It was lovely to see everyone cheering each other on.
Unfortunately the scripts that were handed out today have pages missing. They will need to be reissued tomorrow when they are reprinted.
Thank you,
Mrs Terras
As you are aware our School Improvement Plan forms the basis of our school developments. It is essential that parents and carers are fully involved in the creation of this plan.
Please take some time to put forward your views on the progress we have made with our plan for this year and share your views on what should happen next. This survey will remain open until Friday 12th May.
Please complete the survey below:
You will also require to review a copy of our Family School Improvement Plan.
The children are encouraged to bring with them a picnic cover/blanket to sit on when we are outside enjoying our garden party on Friday for the King’s Coronation.
Please take some time to read our May Newsletter. This contains many important dates for May and June.
Oak Room
The Oak Room children have continued their tasks after the holidays and we are loving the better weather! This has allowed us to participate in outdoor painting with the sun in our faces.
We are working our way through group novels including ‘Westlandia’, ‘Doodlebug Alley’ and ‘Mouse Noses on Toast.’ We love to have some calm reading time after lunch to help our minds prepare for learning.
Pupils this term are focussing on ‘Goal Setting’; this allows them to set a realistic target around their social and emotional development and staff are able to support their achievement of this. Discussions around perseverance and making choices are linked to this. Throughout this topic we will also continue to learn how to understand and manage our feelings.
Pupils will be supported with their hopes and fears around transition into the next academic session during our tasks this term, as we understand although exciting for some, this can be a daunting time for others.
Children are continuing to achieve success using their ‘Pot of Gold’ target trackers and we have already had a few special treats relating to these.
A special welcome to the children who joined the group after the Easter holidays, the feedback around this has been hugely positive!
As always your support is hugely appreciated.
Mrs Crawford
Primary 5 Curriculum update Term 4
Hello everyone!
Primary 5 had an excellent term last term with lots of hard work and fun taking place. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the children for all of their hard work during this time. They really have been working their socks off and should be very proud of themselves. They even led a whole school Mass on the last week of term. This was an excellent achievement.
I would also like to thank the children’s adults for their continued support. Without you, I wouldn’t get to teach such wonderful children. It was also lovely to see some of you at our sharing the learning afternoon. We hope you enjoyed yourselves.
This term will again be really busy with everything from assessments to whole school summer trips as we complete our P5 journey. Please see below some aspects of the curriculum that we will be covering between April and June.
Literacy
We will be exploring discursive writing as our writing genre this term. Within this genre, the children will be expected to explain their thoughts and feelings regarding a particular topic whilst attempting to influence/persuade the reader. This will focus on the writer’s word choice, the use of rhetorical questions and emotive language. The children are also working on their ability to read over what they have written and then re-draft their work using Microsoft word.
The children have been working extremely hard on their grammar skills and this term will focus on alliteration, onomatopoeia and compound words.
The class will continue to develop their reading and comprehension skills through working on their ability to answer different styles of comprehension questions. This is something we have already been looking at; however up until now, this has been very structured and taken at a slow pace This term, I will be looking for a more independent approach to these questions.
Numeracy
The children worked extremely hard last term on division and fractions, as well as linking these to percentages and decimals. This term we will focus on addition and subtraction up to 4 digits. Within addition, we will look at addition with whole numbers as well as decimal numbers and within subtraction the focus will be more around exchanging through place value columns.
Our beyond number topic will be measurement with the first focus being area and perimeter before we move onto volume and mass.
Another aspect of numeracy that will be covered this term is data handling. Throughout this, we will cover bar charts and tally marks. We will also use our knowledge of fractions from last term to help us understand pie charts.
Health and Well being
Health and Well Being this term will have a focus on food health whilst looking at the key nutrient groups and food diversity we require to stay healthy.
God’s loving plan will also be covered this term which will have a focus on growth, social networking, safe use of phones and the UN charter on right of the child.
P.E this term will be tennis, hockey, athletics and outdoor games and all the skills required.
R.E
We will be exploring our relationships with God and look at how this relationship can be deepened through prayer and trust. May is the month of Mary. We will have a focus on our mother Mary and the important role she plays in the bible stories and the life of Jesus.
IDL
This term’s topic will be local politics. We will take a closer look at what are reliable sources of information. The children will learn vocabulary such as democracy and election. This will be linked into the new SNP government and cabinet. We will celebrate Scotland’s inclusivity of a variety of cultures, values and customs.
Thank you again, Mrs McCreadie
